Season & Events
La fanciulla del West
Giacomo Puccini 26 May – 12 JuneSet against a manhunt in the lawless Sierra Nevada of the nineteenth century, with a pistol-packing, poker-playing heroine, La fanciulla del West sees Minnie Falconer, one of the first independent women to stake her claim in the wilds of California, fall in love with a stranger. But is the stranger who he claims to be?
Find out moreCosì fan tutte
28 May – 13 JuneMozart and Da Ponte’s delicious 1790 Neapolitan comedy plays on modern ‘scientific’ fascinations with mesmerism and the exotic, characters drawn from the baroque opera buffa tradition and the volcanic rumblings of Vesuvius, all posing the question: is this love or just infatuation?
Find out moreAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland
19 – 27 JuneFirst seen al fresco in 2012, Will Todd and Maggie Gottlieb’s free-wheeling, tongue-twisting adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s surreal classic for Opera Holland Park gives voice to the curious and curioser characters of the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, and a positively terrifying Queen of Hearts in music that darts from a coloratura showpiece for a singing Bottle to the smoky blues of a Caterpillar with no work ethic.
Find out moreTurandot
Giacomo Puccini 23 – 27 JuneFrom Opera Holland Park’s foundation in 1996, Puccini has been central to the company’s work, from multiple productions of the core and minor masterpieces to rarities including Le Villi and Edgar, and a concert performance of the Messa di Gloria. In our thirtieth year we complete this journey of discovery with a concert staging of Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, completed after the composer’s death in 1924 by Franco Alfano.
Find out moreThe Bamboo Princess
2 – 4 JulyThe UK premiere of Ruyusuke Numajiri’s luminescent 2014 opera of transformation and dislocation, The Bamboo Princess, and the first production in a new partnership between Opera Holland Park and the Yachiyoza Theatre of Kumamoto, Japan. Based on the ancient folk tale of The Bamboo Cutter, best known to Western audiences from Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Numajiri’s opera combines delicate, shimmering orchestration with elegantly curving melodies. A poignant story of impossible love.
Find out moreUn ballo in maschera
25 July – 7 AugustThe first revival of Rodula Gaitanou’s spectacular 2019 production of Verdi’s grand tragedy of illicit love and political turmoil. In mutual love with Amelia, the wife of his closest ally, cursed by a prophecy from a medium, and under threat from anti-monarchist conspirators, Gustavo must renounce his passion or his throne in Verdi's 1859 tragedy of illicit love, political unrest and regicide in the court of Gustave III, King of Sweden.
Find out moreDie Fledermaus
29 July – 8 AugustJohann Strauss II’s irrepressible comedy of flirtations and machinations among Vienna’s poseurs, frenemies and twenty four hour party people returns to Opera Holland Park in a sparkling new production [from director Liam Steele (Le nozze di Figaro, 2012]. Will Falke get his revenge on Eisenstein for the incident with the bat costume? Can Frank convince Orlofsky that he is French? And why does that actress look so much like Rosalinde’s maid?
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