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“COMPOSER CHLOÉ CHARODY IS REMARKABLE NOT JUST FOR HER GENRE-DEFYING MUSIC OR THE GRAVITY-DEFYING NATURE OF ITS PERFORMANCE – A COMBINATION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, CIRCUS AND OPERA – BUT FOR HER COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING THE PLIGHT OF REFUGEES IN HER WORK.”
Chloé Charody is an Australian composer and show creator who is known internationally for her unique sound world that she enhances by combining classical music, circus and opera into a captivating genre of its own.
Chloé founded her production company, Chloé Charody Creations in 2010, the same year that she appeared on the world stage with her first circus opera THE CARNIVAL that opened on London’s West End. THE CARNIVAL then went on to run sell out shows across the world for the decade to follow.
Circus opera is a genre that Charody has pioneered and her work in this field has influenced many other arts companies and composers around the world.
As well as circus operas, Charody composes ballets, musicals, operas, large-scale symphonic works, children’s theatre and interdisciplinary chamber music. Her works have been performed and toured globally by several leading artists and companies including The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, The Dutch National Ballet, The Freestyle Orchestra and The Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
In 2014 Charody’s opera MORNING BLOSSOMS (written with librettist Malcom Rock) toured to some of the biggest concert halls in The Netherlands including The Haarlem Philharmonie and Theatre De Spiegel performed with The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra.
Chloé’s work is paving a new path for classical music and opera, but her work in this field could not be realised without the collaboration of the Australian acrobatic violin virtuoso, Sonja Schebeck. Charody has composed several interdisciplinary works for Schebeck over the years including TALE OF THE FIREBIRD - a concerto for acrobatic-fire-taming-violinist and orchestra which premiered at City Recital Hall, Angel Place for VIVID 2019 and is now in re-development and will tour internationally from 2025 with the acrobatic orchestra from Vienna, The Freestyle Orchestra.
Schebeck has also performed in Charody’s circus opera THE CARNIVAL and two of her ballets with The Dutch National Ballet - MAGDALENE and THE PHOENIX.
Most recently, Schebeck has co-created LIMBO - Charody’s sonata for acrobatic violinist and acrobat. LIMBO is currently touring internationally having performed at Edinburgh Fringe, Kultursommer Festival in Vienna, and Krapoldi Festival in Innsbruck to name a few. LIMBO has also performed alongside Charody’s song cycle for acrobatic soprano, TRUTH IN THE CAGE in Charody’s latest concert platform, STORIES THAT MUST BE HEARD. In 2025, LIMBO will perform in some of Europe’s largest festivals including Zwart Cross in The Netherlands.
In 2025 Charody’s orchestra fanfare, MY AUSTRALIA commissioned and performed in 2022 by The Sydney Symphony Orchestra at The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall will be performed by The Queensland Symphony Orchestra in several concerts at Queensland Performing Arts Centre and in their stunning outdoor concert, Symphony Under The Stars.
Also touring in 2025 will be Charody’s circus opera MRS GIGGLY’S MAGIC SCHOOL which premiered in 2024 at The Pentland Theatre, London.
2025 will also see the next stage in the development of Charody’s opera THE DEVILS TIGER as well as the creation of JINGAH ISLAND - an animated feature film, co-created with Duncan Townsend and with screenplay by Warren Coleman (co-writer and co-director of HAPPY FEET 1 & 2) and Stephen Abbott (THE SANDMAN).
In recent years, Chloé has dedicated a significant amount of her time to helping refugees across the world. As well as working actively to help these displaced people, she uses her position as a composer with an international audience to draw attention to their plight and the injustices inflicted upon them.
Charody’s complete catalogue of creations can be viewed at: http://www.chloecharody.com/creations/overview
Chloé Charody in rehearsals with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (2016)
“If ever there was a program to show off the sharper, deeper, more clearly balanced acoustics of the sonically refurbished Concert Hall in the Sydney Opera House, it was this lineup. Berlioz, the most imaginative orchestrator of the early 19th century, who published a book on the subject; Ravel, arguably the greatest orchestrator of the early 20th century, and Chloé Charody (b. 1984), an Australian composer with an international reputation, who really knows her way around the orchestra. ”
“Chloé’s music represents the epitome of the human heart”
Chloé Charody Creations LTD. are an arts innovation company based in the UK specialising in the creation of theatrical productions that tell stories to audiences of all ages by combining the genres of circus, opera & classical music into a unique & captivating world of it’s own.
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Chloé Charody recording her opera ‘Morning Blossoms’ with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (2016)
Chloé Charody on stage with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra following the premiere of ‘My Australia’ (2022)
Chloé Charody Creations outreach
Chloé Charody founded her outreach foundation in 2023 to bring disadvantaged young people around the world together with professional arts workers to create high quality theatrical work.
“Charody’s talent is indisputable”