MELTWATER at Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall

MELTWATER is a 60-minute immersive performance exploring the fragile beauty and accelerating loss of the polar ice caps.

Created by composer and vocalist Supriya Nagarajan, the work weaves evocative Indian vocals with contemporary instrumentation, live performance, and striking field recordings of melting ice, flowing water, and shifting climates. Set against a visual backdrop of glaciers filmed in their final stages, MELTWATER offers a haunting reflection on environmental change.The performance brings together an exceptional ensemble of international artists across flute, harp, marimba, and electronic sound, creating a rich, textural sound world that is both intimate and expansive.

Developed as the culmination of Manasamitra’s Terrarium project, the piece is informed by real stories from communities affected by flood and drought across the UK, India, Indonesia, and Portugal.

At once meditative and urgent, MELTWATER invites audiences to experience the emotional resonance of climate change through sound, image, and human narrative.

There will also be a Q&A in the end with Dr Natasha Barlow who collaborated with the production from the outset.