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Food for the soul – a live recording at Holland Park
5 Jul 2020On Saturday 4 July we were delighted to take our first steps towards a homecoming. We were determined to make music in Holland Park this summer, with City of London Sinfonia, and rehearsed and recorded a selection of arias from our principal artists to be incorporated into a film.
Video
Julien Van Mellaerts sings ‘Hai già vinta la causa’
3 Jul 2020Julien Van Mellaerts sings Count Almaviva’s aria from Le nozze di Figaro, with Stuart Wild at the piano, filmed at the 2019 Opera Holland Park Gala Dinner.
Podcast
Podcast: In conversation with Peter Brathwaite
3 Jul 2020The artist and singer talks to Director of Opera James Clutton about life during lockdown, the history of black portraiture and his response to the Getty Museum Challenge.
Feature
Poet, Priest, Adventurer
2 Jul 2020Biographer, translator and critic Anthony Holden explores the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, co-creator of Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte.
Feature
Music of midsummer
24 Jun 2020Editor of Opera magazine, and a son of the southern hemisphere, John Allison surveys music that celebrates the summer solstice, from Mendelssohn and Wagner to Britten and Tippett.
Feature
Something wicked
18 Jun 2020Anna Picard surveys opera’s long fascination with the supernatural from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo to Brett Dean’s Hamlet, via Mozart, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Britten.
