We’re very excited to share the first demo from The Sparrow: “How You Find His Love.” There is something slightly terrifying about releasing the first song from a new musical. For months, The Sparrow has existed mostly behind closed doors: in scripts and scores, voice notes and rewrites, conversations about characters, and songs that have changed shape more times than we can count. Today, for the first time, we’re opening that door a little. The Sparrow is a new chamber music

A note before we begin: what follows are our costume concepts — mood, colour and fabric suggestions developed during pre-production. The final designs will be the work of a costume designer, who will bring their own eye, expertise and interpretation to each character's wardrobe. Consider this a starting point, not a blueprint. If Maria's wardrobe is a slow fade to black, Nino's is the opposite. Where her clothes darken and empty out, his brighten and fill in: cotton to velvet

Even in the darkest times, the Italian spirit always finds a way to lift itself up. The first act of The Sparrow takes place in the Sicilian countryside in the winter of 1854–55, as a cholera epidemic loosens its grip on Catania. Our families have buried neighbours, boarded up their city houses, and waited out the sickness among the mulberry trees on the slopes of Etna. When the first good news arrives, they do what Sicilians have always done with fear: they dance it out. The