We are proud to have presented many critically acclaimed productions since Opera Holland Park was founded in 1996. Find out more about them below.
Past productions & events
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Will Todd Thu 13 – Sat 29 July 2017After more than 60 performances since its premiere in 2013 and a hugely successful sell-out run at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was resident in the magical gardens of the Yucca Lawn in Holland Park until 2017.
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Kát’a Kabanová
Leos Janáček Sat 15 – Fri 28 July 2017Janáček’s extraordinary masterpiece, Káťa Kabanová, makes a welcome return to Opera Holland Park this season in Olivia Fuchs’s highly-regarded 2009 production.
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Royal Ballet School
Thu 29 June – Sat 1 July 2017The Royal Ballet School’s end of year performances are an opportunity to witness the exceptional talent of its young dancers, and are a must-see for all ballet fans.
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Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sat 3 – Sat 24 June 2017Infatuation, comedy, suspense and a devious womaniser like no other; it can only be the infamous Don Giovanni.
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La rondine
Giacomo Puccini Thu 1 – Fri 23 June 2017Puccini’s heart-breaking story of love and loss has become enormously popular in recent years and the opera has been re-evaluated as one of the composer’s most exquisitely crafted works.
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La voix humaine
Wed 22 March 2017Opera Holland Park returns to the Royal Albert Hall for this extraordinary one-act opera by Francis Poulenc, composer of Dialogues des Carmelites.
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Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss II Tue 19 July – Fri 5 August 2016Opera Holland Park only occasionally visits the operetta genre but when one considers the canon, Strauss’s glorious comic tale is one of a few that sit right at the top of the tree.
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La Cenerentola
Gioachino Rossini Thu 14 – Sat 30 July 2016Rossini supposedly wrote this gorgeous comic opera in three weeks when aged just 25 years old. It is his take on the Cinderella story and although it would be wrong to expect glass slippers and pumpkin carriages, it is the tale we know, and is a delight, despite carrying an edge of darkness, even featuring an epic orchestral storm in the second act.
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La bohème
Giacomo Puccini Sat 11 – Sat 25 June 2016Rodolfo and Mimi meet, and everybody around them, as well as us in the audience, have their hearts broken. Not much more can, or needs to be, said of this new, elegant and historical production.
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Iris
Pietro Mascagni Tue 7 – Sat 18 June 2016Iris is one of several monumental works that Mascagni went on to compose and in this tale of an exploited young Japanese woman (written before Puccini’s Butterfly), the composer set out to create something that was ‘endlessly beautiful’.
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The Queen of Spades
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tue 2 August – Mon 13 June 2016The romance of Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin is an evergreen staple of the repertoire today, but rarely did his genius find better expression than in this psychological melodrama of breathtaking intensity and beauty.
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L’amore dei tre Re
Italo Montemezzi Wed 22 July – Sat 1 August 2015Opera Holland Park are delighted to bring back to the London stage this extraordinary production of Italo Montemezzi’s masterpiece.
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