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Past productions & events
A Christmas Carol 2025
Will Todd Tuesday 16 December at 5pm and 8pm.Returning in 2025 due to popular demand, Will Todd’s “poignant” (MusicOMH) musical retelling of A Christmas Carol by Opera Holland Park weaves the melodies of traditional Victorian carols and the chimes of handbells through each episode of Dickens’s seasonal tale. A ghost story for all ages with a festive happy ending.
Find out moreA Christmas Carol (Rackleys Barn)
Mon 15 December 2025Step into this beautifully restored country barn for a special evening of festive storytelling and music, as well as an opportunity to raise a glass with the cast and creative team. Rackleys offers a magical setting in which to experience Charles Dickens’s timeless ghost story.
Find out moreChristmas with Opera Holland Park 2025
Sat 6 December 2025Featuring the Opera Holland Park Chorus and principal singers from our 2026 Season, this Christmas celebration will be filled with carols, seasonal music and good cheer.
Find out moreGala Dinner 2025
Tue 11 November 2025A sparkling reception followed by dinner, with performances from our most prized principal artists in the luxurious setting of Drapers' Hall
Find out moreSemele
G. F. Handel Thu 21 – Fri 22 August 2025A mortal woman dares to love a god in Handel's beautiful baroque drama. Virtuosic musical storytelling of tragedy and drama is brought to you through some of Handel’s most sumptuous and lyrical music.
Find out moreThe Elixir of Love
Gaetano Donizetti Sat 16 August 2025Wild Arts (★★★★ The Guardian, ★★★★★ Opera Now) revives its hit production of Donizetti's sun-kissed summer comedy – relocated to a 1950s seaside, with a mischievous English translation and a sparkling new arrangement for chamber orchestra.
Find out moreEugene Onegin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Thu 14 August 2025Wild Arts (★★★★ The Guardian, ★★★★★ Opera Now) presents Tchaikovsky’s soaring exploration of life, death, love, and pride in pre-revolutionary Russia – realising Pushkin’s heartbreaking story with passion and lyricism.
Find out moreBeethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven
Wed 6 – Fri 8 August 2025Plunge into the soul of genius in this award-nominated play about the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven – the artist whose life-story, above all others, encapsulates our deepest images of courage, overcoming, triumph, and wonder.
Find out moreMusic For a Summer’s Evening
City of London Sinfonia Thu 7 August 2025Join Opera Holland Park’s resident orchestra for an evening of uplifting orchestral music in the beautiful surroundings of Opera Holland Park.
Find out moreLa traviata
Giuseppe Verdi Sat 19 July – Sat 2 August 2025Meticulously detailed in its depiction of the decadence of nineteenth century Paris, Verdi’s portrait of a celebrated courtesan in love with a callow bourgeois youth was his only opera on a contemporary subject and was heavily censored at its 1853 premiere. Rodula Gaitanou’s “dazzling” (The Guardian) and “world class” (The Stage) production of La traviata returns to Holland Park with an outstanding cast.
Find out moreLucia di Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti Fri 18 July – Fri 1 August 2025Fugitive ghosts and a bitter feud between two families form the background to Donizetti’s mesmerising Gothic tale of madness and forced marriage, Lucia di Lammermoor.
Find out moreOpera in Song
Sat 21 June – Mon 28 July 2025Curated by baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and the pianist Dylan Perez, the Opera in Song recital series returns to Opera Holland Park for a fifth year, with three recitals from established and emerging singers and pianists and a public masterclass with acclaimed tenor Freddie De Tommaso with the OHP Young Artists.
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