What brings you here? Have you ever been evicted? Have you ever been denied a lease or loan? The American composer Gabriel Kahane didn鈥檛 have any answers until he started talking to the homeless of contemporary America. emergency shelter intake form is his response. Oratorio meets opera meets musical theatre in this UK premiere by the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra.

The classical tradition collides with the voices - and the lived experience - of homeless people and the result is passionate, direct and startlingly sincere.

Conductor Kwam茅 Ryan opens with two more American cityscapes: West Side Story is as thrilling now as it was in 1957, but the tragedy at its heart is as raw, and as real, as ever.