A short-listed opera that began as workshops in the very first Genesis Opera Project has now reached completion. Non Guardate was performed to great public interest and acclaim in Milan on 8 April 2008. It was also broadcast on RAI throughout Italy.

Discovering new international voices in the theatre has been one of the central activities of the Genesis Foundation since its earliest days – and we are now celebrating over 10 years of supporting the Royal Court’s International Writers programme as run and developed by Elyse Dodgson.

The Royal Court’s April-August 2008 programme included an "Upstairs Downstairs" season. This saw revivals in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs of plays that enjoyed sell-out runs in the smaller Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in 2007, including ones developed through the International Writers scheme funded by the Genesis Foundation.

The Genesis Foundation is supporting the music theatre company Tête à Tête in its work during 2007/08 with options to extend its involvement. The main purpose is to work with Tête à Tête on audience development in the field of innovative, contemporary opera.

The International Season at the Royal Court Theatre in London which runs from 21 September - 15 December 2007 has five plays in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs that have come through the Genesis International playwrights programme.

See a short film about the work and achievements of the Genesis Foundation so far.

Jean-Philippe Calvin, the French composer, has written a short piece of music dedicated to Genesis Founder and Chairman John  Studzinski. The piece is called Sophia (Wisdom, in the Ancient Greek language). The piece is profoundly spiritual and is mixed with Oriental Timelessness, aspiring to the depth and feeling of a Byzantine Chant.

Beastly Tales by Roxanna Panufnik.

When the monkey saw Kuroop he let out a joyful whoop (Narrator, Monkey, Mr Crocodile).

Beastly Tales by Roxanna Panufnik.

On the Ganga's greenest isle lived Kuroop the crocodile (narrator, Monkey, Mr. Crocodile).

Jean-Philippe Calvin, the French composer who is developing a new opera for Genesis, based on Ionesco's legendary play La Cantatrice Chauve, is about to have a piece performed at the International Gaudemus Festival.

On 12 June 2007 Genesis gave its annual Summer Drinks Party for friends and partners at the Young Vic in London. The building has just won the Royal Institute of British Architects Award for the best new building in London 2007!

John Studzinski CBE established the Genesis Foundation in January 2001. Genesis supports and nurtures emerging professional composers, directors, writers and actors into sustained careers in the arts, helping them at the most sensitive and difficult early period of their careers. It also has the further purpose of helping to build new audiences for the fine arts and of commissioning potential masterpieces of the future.