Events

Dress rehearsal – Eugene Onegin

Thu 26 May Opera Holland Park Theatre

Gold Members, Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Eugene Onegin. 

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Dress rehearsal – Carmen

Mon 30 May Opera Holland Park Theatre

Gold Members, Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Carmen. 

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Pre-Performance Talk – Eugene Onegin

Fri 3 June Opera Holland Park Theatre

Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music at Oxford University and biographer of Tchaikovsky, discusses the origin and impact of Eugene Onegin with Anna Picard.

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Pre-Performance Talk – Carmen

Sat 4 June Opera Holland Park Theatre

Poet and research Dr Jo Clement has written widely on her British gypsy heritage and the visibility and invisibility of the gypsy in culture. This evening she reflect on the phenomenon of Carmen with Anna Picard.

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Dress rehearsal – Margot la Rouge / Le Villi

Tue 19 July Opera Holland Park Theatre

Gold Members, Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Margot la Rouge / Le Villi. 

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Dress rehearsal – Little Women

Wed 20 July Opera Holland Park Theatre

Gold Members, Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Little Women. 

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Pre-Performance Talk – Margot la Rouge / Le Villi

Sat 23 July Opera Holland Park Theatre

Professor Thomas Dixon is a member of the Queen Mary Centre of the History of Emotions. In conversation with Anna Picard, he discusses operatic emotions in two contrasting stories of abandonment and revenge from Delius and Puccini.

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Pre-performance talk – Little Women

Thu 28 July Opera Holland Park Theatre

American composer Mark Adamo talks to Anna Picard about the inspiration behind his 1998 adaptation of Little Women, and the opera’s performance history from Houston to Holland Park.

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Pre-performance talk – HMS Pinafore

Wed 10 August Opera Holland Park Theatre

Parliamentary sketch writer for The Guardian John Crace shares his love of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas with Anna Picard, and imagines which public figures they might parody today.

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