Find out more about our past productions, including those featured in our 2021 Season, below.
Past productions & events
Dress rehearsal – Eugene Onegin
Thu 26 May Opera Holland Park TheatreGold Members, Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Eugene Onegin.
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Laughing at the English: satire and patriotism in HMS Pinafore
Tue 17 May Online eventA survey of satire and patriotism from Gilbert and Sullivan's toe-tapping naval comedy to contemporary sketch writing. Director and singer John Savournin, WS Gilbert biographer Andrew Crowther, BBC Radio Three's Donald MacLeod and John Crace, parliamentary sketch writer for The Guardian, discuss matters naval, nostalgic, patriotic and satirical with Anna Picard.
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Members Q&A
Wed 11 May Opera Holland Park TheatreMembers and Supporters are invited to our next Members Q&A with Opera Holland Park's CEO and Director of Opera, James Clutton.
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Little Women: Louisa May Alcott and the American opera
Tue 10 May Online EventTune in at 6pm this evening for a transatlantic conversation on American opera, classic novels of girlhood and the lasting impact of Louisa May Alcott's story of the March sisters. Panellists include John Allison, editor of Opera magazine, Deborah Friedell, contributing editor at the London Review of Books, and director Ella Marchment.
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Acts of Revenge: Introducing Margot la Rouge and Le Villi
Wed 20 April Italian Cultural InstituteA whistlestop tour through Gothic horror, German folklore and the lawless backstreets of fin-de siècle Paris. Doctor James Savage-Hanford, Professor Mererid Puw Davies, director Martin Lloyd-Evans, conductor Francesco Cilluffo and Paul Guinery of The Delius Trust join Anna Picard to explore the contrasting styles and soundworlds of this year’s double bill of Delius and Puccini.
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Kensington and Chelsea Music Society – A Night at the Opera
Tue 22 March St George's ChurchKensington and Chelsea Music Society present an evening of opera with performances from soprano Alison Langer, mezzo-soprano Charlotte Badham and baritone Julien Van Mellaerts.
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Eugene Onegin: The letter and the gun
Tue 15 March Bob Boas HouseHistorian Rosamund Bartlett, conductor Lada Valešová, director Julia Burbach and Anna Picard convene for an evening of Russian poetry, Tchaikovsky miniatures and a discussion of the classic drama of innocence and experience, Eugene Onegin.
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Opera and feminism: The trouble with Carmen
Fri 11 March Institut français du Royaume-UniAs part of IFRU's Women Shaping the World Festival, cultural historian Claire Lozier, opera critic Erica Jeal and director Cecilia Stinton join Opera Holland Park's Anna Picard to consider how Carmen can be viewed through a feminist lens, with music from mezzo-soprano Clare Presland and conductor and pianist Sonia Ben Santamaria.
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Young Artist Close-Up
Mon 7 MarchA unique opportunity to pose questions to the emerging vocal, directing and conducting talents who will be performing Eugene Onegin this summer.
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Opera Holland Park Gala 2022
22 February 2022 Drapers' HallSave the date for the return of the Opera Holland Park Gala
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Fata Morgana by Pavel Haas
Online performance from 6pm on Wednesday 27 JanuaryNicky Spence, Lada Valešová and the Navarra Quartet perform Pavel Haas's Fata Morgana to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Click here to watch on demand.
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Carnival Culture in the Park
Thu 19 – Sat 21 August 2021Showcasing the best in both traditional and contemporary Caribbean Musicians, Carnival Culture in the Park celebrates the culture and heritage of Carnival through the musical genres of Calypso and Steelpan.
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