Glyndebourne - Agreed Opera
Zara McFarlane performed at the prestigious opera house Glyndebourne in the new Opera Agreed composed by Howard Moody in 2019. Her character Kronos was created especially for Zara fusing jazz, classical vocal styles.
Agreed featured a cast of professional singers, a chorus drawn from the local community, Glyndebourne Youth Opera, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Glyndebourne Youth Orchestra.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Zara McFarlane performed on stage for a full season of Anthony and Cleopatra both in the main theatre in Stratford Upon Avon and The Barbican in London with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2017/18.
The production was directed by Iqbal Khan and the music was composed by Laura Mvula, starring Antony Byrne as Antony and Josette Simon as Cleopatra.
In 2021, during the pandemic she was invited back to the RSC to perform in the new presentation of the fragments of the lost scripts of the1939 musical ‘Swinging A Dream’
A work in progress including original music and songs from the 1939 production. Presented by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Telling the story of an intriguing Broadway musical adaptation of Shakespeare. This jazz-infused version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened in 1939 with a heady mixture of talent, including Louis Armstrong and Maxine Sullivan, and musical contributions from Count Basie and Benny Goodman.
In association with Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre for a New Audience NYC.