• Staging modern, risk-taking productions of the highest quality that reject the conventional and traditional aspects of opera production 

• Performing opera in English to ensure immediate comprehensibility and dramatic integrity 

• Using unconventional spaces (warehouses, music halls, churches) which both challenge the parameters of the standard operatic experience while ensuring through the use of modest-sized venues that the words can be heard and understood 

• Using young talent thus exploiting both their energy and creating a feeling that this is a medium young people can relate to 

• Exploring one-act repertoire that allows surprising, flexible programming, challenges prejudice about the form, and unearths often rarely-performed works 

• Keeping ticket prices low to ensure that people pay little more than they would for a cinema ticket, thereby encouraging younger audiences 

• Establishing fruitful links with the other arts (for example dance, new writing and fine art) and in such collaboration regenerating both the form and people’s preconceptions of it 

• Fostering links with London communities, particularly through workshops with the young