Hidden Star Opera

The fragility of Annie Walker's position. A woman in the mid to late 1800s, essentially doing a man's job, she depended on mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams

From the presentation on 💫 Hidden Star - The Story of Annie Walker 🔭 where we presented excerpts of our up and coming opera about the first observational astronomer Annie Walker and talked about the creation and research behind it.

This was in October 2025

Here you can see Librettist and Creator Caroline Coetzee .coetzee.7

Such conviction and fortitude! Susanna Davis - Soprano - is singing the role of observational astronomer Annie Walker. In this scene, young Annie declares that she is forging her own path, indifferent to what other girls her age are supposed to care about.

How hard can it be to be heard—and to gather the courage to admit we want something different from the path society lays out for us?

From 💫 Hidden Star - The Story of Annie Walker 🔭 an opera about the first female observational astronomer Annie Walker

This clip is from our performance at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2025 at Cockpit Theatre in October 2025

Tanacious women like Annie Walker....

From the first public presentation of 💫 Hidden Star - The Story of Annie Walker 🔭 at the Cockpit Theatre
Part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2025

Here you can hear Librettist and creator Caroline Coetzee talk about Annie Walker means to her and women in STEM in general

🎶 When young people are lost in what they love... 💖 (that's what this aria is about 😉)

But little did this Young Annie Walker - of our opera - know that this love for the stars would become her career

This is the aria "Look! See how Orion..." from the opera 💫 Hidden Star - The Story of Annie Walker 🔭

Premiered at the Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2025 at The Cockpit Theatre this October.

Soprano: Susanna Davies
Pianist: Marion Caldwell
Librettist: Caroline Coetzee
Composer: Rania Chrysostomou

See you back again 💛

✒️ When true stories have gaps...

👀 A peek behind the mind of Caroline Coetzee, the librettist of the opera in progress 💫Hidden Star - The Story of Annie Walker 🔭

In this clip .coetzee.7 shares the reality of having to "invent" some of the characters and their interactions since information about these historical characters is scarce - - - for the time being 🤔

This clip is from our first presentation / performance at Tête à Tête:The Opera Festival 2025 in October at the Cockpit Theatre in London.

For the whole presentation follow our bio link

Sneaky video of the premier of Hidden Star - The Story of Annie Walker

Here, librettist Caroline Coetzee, is narrating the role of Harriet Hardy while Susanna Davis is singing the role of Young Annie Walker

For Harriet, working at the Observatory feels like drudgery, while for Annie it feels like at home

On the piano is Marion Caldwell and the composition is by Rania Chrysostomou.

This was premiered on 5th Oct 2025 part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2025

A message from the Creator of Hidden Star, Caroline Coetzee 🔭💫🎶 join us on 5th of October at the Cockpit Theatre to watch this opera in progress. Info and tickets link below. Part of
Tête à Tête Institute of Astronomy Cambridge