The first of Folkestone New Music's series of 2025 events at kollectiv, Folkestone's exciting new arts and culture hub. Composer Mark Simpson and award-winning environmentalist writer Melanie Challenger discuss their opera, ‘Pleasure’.

Pleasure was co-commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Opera North, and Aldeburgh Music, and first performed in Leeds in 2016 to great acclaim.

’.”…the perfect operatic subject: squalid and earthbound yet imbued with a radiant, almost mythic quality… At the start of what one hopes will be a long operatic career, Simpson has pulled off a genuine coup." - The Guardian

At 18:00, we will be offering a free, celebratory glass whilst the team introduces what is happening in the rest of the full and exciting 2025 Folkestone New Music season. Please join us!