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Past productions & events
Virtual Open Day: Meet the Directors
23 May 2020 Facebook and YouTubeDirectors Martin Lloyd-Evans, Rodula Gaitanou and Rebecca Meltzer get together with Anna Picard to talk about their experiences directing opera.
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Virtual Open Day: Vocal Masterclass
23 May 2020 YouTube and FacebookLada Valešová, conductor, pianist, and language coach, leads a masterclass with mezzo-soprano Charlotte Badham, one of the Opera Holland Park Young Artists. Working together on the text and music, Lada and Charlotte will give an insight into the detailed preparation behind live performance.
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Virtual Open Day: Meet the Designer
23 May 2020 YouTubeFind out what it takes to be a set and costume designer with Alyson Cummins. The designer of recent Opera Holland Park productions Cosi fan tutte (2018) and L’arlesiana (2019) discusses the journey from mood board to fittings and technical rehearsals.
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Virtual Open Day: Conducting Classes
23 May 2020 Zoom Video ConferenceThree Opera Holland Park conductors, Matthew Kofi Waldren, Dane Lam and Lada Valešová, will be giving private and group conducting lessons over the course of the day. No musical background is necessary. To secure your position in one of the classes, make sure you sign up here… And be quick, places will go fast!
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Virtual Open Day: Sing with the Opera Holland Park Chorus and John Savournin
23 May 2020 YouTube and FacebookOpera Holland Park Chorus Master, Richard Harker, and the Opera Holland Park Chorus invite you to join them in a tongue-twisting family finale. Learn the music and lyrics of ‘I am the very model of a Modern Major General’ from The Pirates of Penzance and sing along with us in an event for all ages and abilities.
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Prelude
Tue 5 May 2020 Leighton House MuseumJoin us for an evening of performances by some of the stars of our 2020 Season, as we look forward to a summer of opera in Holland Park. Ticket price includes a drinks reception before the performance.
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Waltz, schmaltz, hard cash and champagne: Lehár’s The Merry Widow
Tue 31 March 2020 Matthiesen GalleryThe writer and broadcaster Gavin Plumley talks to Anna Picard about the culture, politics, art and music of Vienna in 1905, a crucible of radical ideas and decadent dances.
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CANCELLED: Monstrous and sublime: Verdi’s Rigoletto
18 March 2020 Italian Cultural InstituteConductor Matthew Kofi Waldren and cartoonist Martin Rowson talk to Anna Picard about satire, power, beauty and grotesquerie in Verdi’s revenge tragedy.
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OHP Young Artists Masterclass with Amanda Roocroft
Wed 11 March 2020 Pushkin HouseIntroduced by Donald Macleod, lyric soprano Amanda Roocroft returns to conduct a masterclass with singers from the 2020 Opera Holland Park Young Artists.
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The superfluous man and the bookish girl: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
4 March 2020 Bob Boas HouseLada Valešová and Rosamund Bartlett talk to Anna Picard about Tchaikovsky’s life and music from his miniatures for solo piano to Eugene Onegin.
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Critics’ Question Time
5 February 2020 French Cultural InstituteCritics from The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Times and Opera magazine join Opera Holland Park for an event where you pose the questions.
Find out moreIl segreto di Susanna / Iolanta
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Mon 22 July – Sat 3 August 2019Wolf-Ferrari’s delicious 1909 farce of marital misunderstanding and modern manners is contrasted with the turbulent Romanticism of Iolanta. A dark fairytale, Tchaikovsky’s final opera forms the second half of a double bill on the theme of secrets and lies.
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