Over the last several years Zirenz, Bex Hazard and Cat Llewelyn have been working on the “pOpera project” a project that brings together all of Zirenz music diversity and Knowledge which they have acquired and developed over the last 25 years. With their Classical music training, their music production skills, DJ editing and mixing skills with their love and understanding of Singing, playing and DJing many different styles and genres of music including Classical Opera, Music theatre, Trance, EDM and Pop Zirenz have been developing a way to re-imagine the music of Purcell to Puccini and more, crafting new fresh arrangements with some additional composition and lyrical or libretto content.

Zirenz have started their LIVE Shows “pOpera Zirenz In Concert” and “pOpera by Candlelight” shows performing in Theatres, Cathedrals , Churches across Wales and England and in the near future plans to tour Europe and Ghana Africa.

Spring term 2024 Zirenz Llewelyn & Hazard began creating prototype teaching packs for their pOpera project Opera arias with SAB chorus and these prototype works are currently being rehearsed for internal performances for the Summer term 2024 at Leicester City based Addict Dance Academy BTEC (Musical Theatre) courses. The principal aim for the pOpera project is to develop new innovative vocal repertoire for BTEC performing arts courses in the UK to bringing the world of Opera to a new diverse contemporary range of performance students who would not have considered singing Opera as soloists or as a chorus before and will begin to give them the chance to start to explore the amazing world of Opera in some cases for the very first time.

The development of the pOpera project is ongoing and Zirenz have plans to work on several full OPERAs as well as continuing to add more well know works to their pOpera project catalogue. Zirenz music is currently published by Bucks Music Group Ltd London and both Rebecca Hazard and Catrin Llewelyn are now part of the British Music Collection of composers run by Sound and Music the national charity for new music in the UK.

If you would like to know more about the pOpera project or get involved in anyway then please email us and for any compositional songwriting commissions, collaborations or for licensing requests please contact our publishing manager Rhiannon Bramley at Bucks Music Group Ltd.

pOpera project repertoire catalogue

All these re-imagined works have bespoke produced backing tracks produced by Zirenz and are arranged by Zirenz for:
Two Female voices
Mezzo Soprano, Alto and Tenor
Two Female voices with two part SA and 3 part SAB Choir.

BTEC teaching packs repertoire

Didos Lament (Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas) arr. Zirenz

OPERA Arias

Didos Lament (Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas) arr. Zirenz
Lascia Chio Pianga (George F. Handel – Rinaldo arr. Zirenz
Nessun Dorma (Giacomo Puccini – Turandot) arr. Zirenz
Ombra Mai Fu (George F. Handel – Xerxes) arr. Zirenz
Un Bel Di (Giacomo Puccini – Madam Butterfly) arr. Zirenz
Vissi d’arte (Giacomo Puccini – Tosca) arr. Zirenz

SACRED songs

Ave Maria (Giulio Caccini) arr. Zirenz
Calon Lan (John Hughes) arr. Zirenz
Panis Angelicus (César Franck) arr. Zirenz
Gloria (Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria Mass) arr. Zirenz
Pie Jesu (Gabriel Faure – Requiem Op.48) arr. Zirenz
The Trumpet Shall Sound (George F. Handel – Messiah) arr. Zirenz

pOpera project releases on Afterworld Recordings Worldwide

Distribution by believe digital available for digital download and streaming

Single – Zirenz – Un Bel Di
Single – Zirenz – Gloria featuring Opera singer Aled Hall,
Single – Zirenz – Lascia Chio Pianga
Single – Zirenz – Didos Lament