Song of Our Heartland

Song of Our Heartland’ is an opera, created and performed by the Northern Heartlands Community Opera. At its inception it was intended to be performed in front of a in-person audience, but Covid restrictions required the project to be reworked to become a filmed, online version. Rehearsals for the project took place virtually throughout the summer 2020 and the finished production was filmed with a pre-recorded score over two days in September at the railway museum in Shildon. Northern Heartlands pivoted a number of its activities to a digital experience during 2020, using its website as a key point of access to them.