How could you say the thing that you did?

Premiered in 1952, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is an opera set in a single day. Sam, played here by Jack Holton – Jake Wallace in OHP’s La Fanciulla del West – is a successful but emotionally distant businessman. His wife, Dinah, played by Alexandria Moon is his frustrated wife looking for more. Bright radio-style choruses clash with the lonely lives of Sam and Dinah, revealing a marriage caught between glossy fantasy and emotional truth. Featuring the tour de force aria – What a movie! – for Dinah.

 

Sloth, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice, Envy

Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins – Die sieben Todsünden – premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1933, starring the legendary Lotte Lenya as Anna. Opera Holland Park favourite Alison Langer—also Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus —takes on this iconic role as she journeys across America in search of fame and fortune, hoping to earn enough money for her family’s new house in Louisiana. Melodies soar beside dance rhythms and jazz influences ironically depicting different cities and moral encounters. Sung in German with surtitles