Update:
Due to expanding timeline for decisions and paperwork, we have decided to delay our full Festival to February 2025 - we have an in-principle agreement with a venue/hospitality partner from 2025 - 2028, and new CBD headquarters for 2024! We have some extraordinary performances set to go from February 2024, and when everything's ready, we will announce the full program for our activity in Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula and other regions.
As promised, Member and Early Bird tickets will be on pre-sale - make sure you're signed up for notifications.
We're keenly focused on enticing you into our performance spaces, so that together we can share remarkable stories and talent unique to a moment in place and time. Being surrounded by people who have different backgrounds, attitudes, experiences and opinions is fuel to our performing fire. It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, when you're in a room full of people experiencing contemporary operatic storytelling - the pinnacle of creative endeavour of our time - you are making history - yours and others'. Your breath, your reactions, your surprise, your applause - we thrive on that.
If you needed more encouragement to sample our particular style of operatic storytelling, remember that participating in the arts is good for mental health, empathy and connection, and enhances creative thinking.
ACOCO is loud, imaginative, bold and joyful. Singing all sorts of stories, designed to resonate with you, the world we live in and help craft the future.