Costumes from the world premiere of Roles

V&A Opera Residents Metta Theatre and Composer Oliver Brignall spent six months creating a new contemporary opera in response the recent V&A exhibition Opera: Passion, Power and Politics. 'Roles' featured five extraordinary costumes, specially created costumes by five leading designers, including costumes for Salomé (banned in the UK until 1907) and Katerina from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (banned in the Soviet Union until 1961).

Image © Robert Workman

Part of V&A Performance Festival 2018