Así que pasen cinco años: Edward Lambert's Federico Garcia Lorca-based opera, In Five Years' Time debuts at The Space Theatre

Federico García Lorca finished his play Así que pasen cinco años in 1931, five years to the day before he was executed. If was never produced during Lorca's lifetime and he said it would be impossible to stage. Now composer Edward Lambert has risen to the challenge and is presenting the work, as In Five Years’ Time, a drama in song about the Poet searching for an identity in the 'forest of life' with a cast of 8 singers playing some 14 roles.

Lambert and his company, The Music Troupe are presenting In Five Years' Time at The Space Theatre, London E14 3RS from 24 to 28 February 2026. The production is directed by Walter Hall with music director Alistair Burton and cast Rosalind Dobson, Lucy Gibbs, Mae Heydorn, Fiona Hymns, Jean-Max Lattemann, Chris Murphy, James Schouten, and Thomas Stevenson.

Edward Lambert (b. 1951) has written 21 small-scale operas for professional performance and since 2013 has successfully mounted 15 of them with The Music Troupe. The group's first project was Six Characters in Search of a Stage and this work received a new production in Moscow, December 2025. In 2023 The Last Siren was commissioned by the University of West London as a dementia-friendly opera and the following year the group made its first appearance at The Space, London, with The Duchess of Padua, an adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. 

Full details from The Space Theatre's website.