World Opera Lab, established by Miranda Lakerveld, creates intercultural operatic performances, undertakes research and gives workshops. The productions transcend cultural difference and take the dialogue between different disciplines as their guiding principle. Societal issues are explored in a poetic way in a cross-fertilisation of the music and dance from various cultures. World Opera Lab’s work is inspired by research into traditional music practices from Tibet, Japan, Guatemala, India and Iran. The WOL has created various productions in the Netherlands (including for the Holland Festival) and beyond. In 2016 they entered into a collaboration with De Balie to create operas about urgent political topics such as the war in the Yemen. In 2017 WOL worked with Aftab Darvishi to produce the performances Dance with the Seven Veils and The Sacrifice. This year sees Turan Dokht premiered, initially in Tehran and then at the Holland Festival.