Het Geluid Maastricht (co)produces opera and music theatre performances, educational programs and socially engaged arts projects.  Their work is characterized by bringing together the ancient power of opera and (music) theatre with new techniques and social developments. They create music theatre as a bridge between the ‘new’ and the ‘old’, and in doing so Het Geluid investigate the world around us. A question that continues to occupy the makers: how can music theatre contribute to an inclusive and critical society?

Within their work Het Geluid Maastricht always searches for the primal power of (new) communities. By means of new connections and surprising combinations, we try to convert pressing issues into high-quality social-artistic music theatre in an innovative way. The committed way of working leads to productions or concepts with a strong social drive, aimed at socio-cultural and artistic innovation including individuals and communities with distance to the cultural sector. We want to pull the ‘great’ arts such as opera out of their isolation that is experienced as elitist and place them in the middle of society.