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Christmas with Opera Holland Park
20 Sep 2023Join us at St Mary Abbots Church on Kensington Church Street to mark the beginning of the festive period. Featuring the Opera Holland Park Chorus and principal singers from our 2024 Season, this Christmas celebration will be filled with carols, seasonal music and good cheer. Booking is now open!
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Itch: the story of a new opera
13 Sep 2023Three years on from its commission in 2020, we take a look back at the success of world premiere of Itch, its first run and how it came to be the opera we experienced this summer.
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Opera Holland Park 2023 Gala
16 Aug 2023Join us on Tuesday 21 November for an evening of glorious music from the Opera Holland Park principal singers, a champagne reception and fine dining in the spectacular surroundings of Drapers’ Hall. We will celebrate the 2023 Season and look forward to 2024 alongside raising money for our future productions and work in the community.
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Announcing the 2024 Season
9 Aug 2023Our 2024 Season includes a revival of our acclaimed 2008 production of Tosca, new productions of The Barber of Seville, three semi-staged performances of Puccini's Edgar, a double bill of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and a revival of our 2019 staging of Wolf-Ferrari's comedy Il segreto di Susanna, OHP's first production of a Handel opera, Acis and Galatea, and Sullivan's comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard, a collaboration with Charles Court Opera.
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Watch the trailer for Ruddigore
7 Aug 2023A witch’s curse, a thwarted courtship, an assumed identity and the irksome business of committing daily acts of wickedness fuel Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera, Ruddigore. Watch the trailer now.
Spotlight Interviews
Spotlight on Beth Hoare-Barnes
2 Aug 2023‘I find it hard to put into words what I love about opera. It’s the immensity of what the singers can physically do, the hard-earned skill of everyone involved, and ultimately the absolute throat-grabbing, hair-raising raw emotion of it all.’
