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Opera Holland Park

A year-round commitment to excellence in opera, centred on an extraordinary three-month summer festival. 

Surrounded by the beautiful formal gardens and wilded woodlands of Holland Park, our canopied open-air auditorium is the perfect place to enjoy critically acclaimed opera in the heart of London. 

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Opera Holland Park 2023 Season

30 May – 12 August

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi 30 May – 24 June

A propulsive tragedy of toxic masculinity and unfettered power

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La bohème

Giacomo Puccini 19 July – 5 August

Passion and precarity in Puccini’s evergreen portrait of love and friendship in the Quartier Latin

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Itch

Jonathan Dove 22 July – 4 August

The world premiere of an explosive new opera from composer Jonathan Dove

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Opera in Song

29 – 31 July

Curated by Julien Van Mellaerts and Dylan Perez, the Opera in Song series returns with a programme of three recitals

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Ruddigore

W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan 9 – 12 August

A witch’s curse, a thwarted courtship, and the irksome business of committing daily acts of wickedness

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Introducing the Opera Holland Park Events, March-July 2023 News

Introducing the Opera Holland Park Events, March-July 2023

An exclusive onscreen encore for Puccini’s supernatural thriller, Le Villi, launches a series of online and in person events as we look forward to the 2023 Opera Holland Park Season. At the heart of the series, Prelude returns to the newly restored Leighton House, with a full programme of music from our principal artists, including the first public performance of an aria from Jonathan Dove’s opera, Itch.

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