A rebooted revival of Joanna Lee and Robin Norton-Hale’s operatic adaption of Jill Murphey’s iconic children’s book.

In Autumn 2023, Becca was hired by OperaUpClose with the remit of remounting their popular children’s opera with a focus on adding more interaction, incorporating sign language, bringing the musicians into the piece and tearing down the fourth wall. She ran a playful and engaging rehearsal room with a new cast of singers to restage the work and realise this little gem’s full potential. Peace at Last toured schools in the South West, as well as Mast Studio Theatre, Southampton, The Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe, and The Mansfield Museum.

The feedback from this tour was overwhelmingly positive, both from theatre audiences and teachers alike.

BEST NEW OPERA PRODUCTION - Off West End Award Nominee

BEST PERFORMER IN AN OPERA HEMING LI - Off West End Award Nominee

BEST PERFORMER IN AN OPERA REIKO FUKUDA - Off West End Awards Nominee

“It's a genius concept, where Marriott and Sharuzuddin rip up Puccini’s opera and burn it right in front of you. And it’s exactly what this stereotype-filled piece needs.” Raphael Kohn - All That Dazzles

“This unconventional production of “Turandot” left me spellbound by its vocal performances and mesmerised by its audacious take on integrating technology into opera. It’s clear that a tremendous amount of thought went into reimagining the story.” - West End Evenings

“This Turandot is an innovative, challenging and moving presentation of a great opera, a production that returned it to the people at the heart of its story. Madama Butterfly next? “ - Broadway World

This radical reimagining of Turandot envisaged the eponymous princess as a digital fantasy luring Calaf away from his family. It brought together a cast and chorus of over 30 East Asian artists and involved detailed movement and dramaturgical work in the rehearsal room. It also involved collaboration with Video designer, Erin Guan and Scenographer Ingrid Hu to tie the deign of the piece into the dramaturgy and create visual symbols for the real world and the dystopian game fantasy of Turandot.

Becca assisted Stephen Medcalf on his new production of Tosca for Grange Park Opera noting both cast and principals and offering advice and support to Stephen throughout the process.

“Rome in 1800 becomes the same city under the Nazis, in a bold new staging from Grange Park Opera that gets all the basics right.” The Telegraph

Becca worked with London Punch and Judy to re-imagine Pergolesi’s hoot of an opera, La Serva Padrona as a riotous pantomime experience for children age 5-11.

The Opera Makers ran a two week R&D on the piece culminating in a showing for 35 local children and their parents, in partnership with The Little Angel Theatre.

The piece includes weaving together idiomatic English dialogue and opera as well as incorporating the puppet theatre and all the characters from the world of Mr Punch.

The audience loved it, and the company are aiming to tour schools with the work in 2024-25.

In 2020-2021, Becca created a new operatic work bringing together two of Debussey’s underperformed but stunning lyric scenes - L’Enfant Prodigue and La Damoiselle élue; as well as incorporating some of his most famous piano music and song. This music was accompanied by recorded extracts of people who had lived through a cancer diagnosis themselves, or experienced seeing a loved one go through cancer, as well as new lyrical libretto loosely based on their words. The work was created in partnership with Shine Cancer Support and featured on BBC London. **** - The Stage.

Becca Marriott wrote and adapted a new imagining of Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci - The Clowns - in which the two operas merge together and Canio murders his heavily pregnant wife on stage during a trip to the opera. Part in English and part in taditional Italian, the work explores how the fourth wall can be broken in the style of Pirandello in the medium of opera. A concert performance of the new work was performed after a two day Research and Development phase. Funded by NatWest Back her Business.