News & features
Feature
Bridging the divide and opera’s Holy Grail
11 Dec 2017Michael Volpe, General Director of Opera Holland Park, discusses the barriers preventing people from accessing the art form of opera, and introduces our upcoming new film, Hip Hop to Opera.
Programme article
Janáček’s great measureless love by Anna Picard
1 Aug 2017Anna Picard explores Janáček's relationship with Kamila Stösslová, a young woman with whom h became besotted, and her influence on Káťa Kabanová.
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Puccini’s ‘enemy opera’
1 Aug 2017La rondine was Puccini's first, and reluctant, commission in the field of operetta. George hall tracks its development amidst the outset of the First World War
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Highway to Hell by Robert Thicknesse
1 Aug 2017Robert Thicknesse delves deeper into Mozart's true motivations behind Don Giovanni.
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That’s amore by Mark Valencia
1 Aug 2017Love, humanity and femininity combine to produce a unique summer season here at Opera Holland Park in 2017, writes Mark Valencia.
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Leoncavallo’s Singing Siren
1 Aug 2017Few operas are as self-consciously realistic as Leoncavallo's Zazà, writes Ditlev Rindom.
