Past productions & events

Petite Opera House – Die Zauberflöte

Sat 8 & Sat 22 June 2pm and 3.45pm

Petite Opera House presents a 55-minute family event for children aged 4-9 featuring a screening of a mini opera, Die Zauberflöte by Mozart, live performances, and an interactive singing and conducting workshop, followed by a chance to interact and ask questions.

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Dress rehearsal: The Barber of Seville

Sun 2 June 2024

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

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Peter and the Wolf Musical Workshops – North Kensington Library

Wed 29 May 2024

Join us for an interactive musical workshop based on Prokofiev’s classic story Peter and the Wolf.  Waterperry Festival Opera's fun-filled workshops are the perfect way to introduce your child to the magic of live music through storytelling.

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Peter and the Wolf Musical Workshops – Brompton Library

Wed 29 May 2024

Join us for an interactive musical workshop based on Prokofiev’s classic story Peter and the Wolf.  Waterperry Festival Opera's fun-filled workshops are the perfect way to introduce your child to the magic of live music through storytelling.

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Peter and the Wolf Musical Workshops – Kensington Central Library

Tue 28 May 2024

Join us for an interactive musical workshop based on Prokofiev’s classic story Peter and the Wolf.  Waterperry Festival Opera's fun-filled workshops are the perfect way to introduce your child to the magic of live music through storytelling.

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Peter and the Wolf Musical Workshops – Chelsea Library

Tue 28 May 2024

Join us for an interactive musical workshop based on Prokofiev’s classic story Peter and the Wolf.  Waterperry Festival Opera's fun-filled workshops are the perfect way to introduce your child to the magic of live music through storytelling.

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Dress rehearsal: Tosca

Thu 23 May 2024

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

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Happy we!: Handel and the Arcadian idyll

Tue 7 May 2024

Conductor and pianist Michael Papadopoulos, critic Robert Thicknesse, soprano Elizabeth Karani and Edward Behrens, editor of Apollo magazine, join Anna Picard to discuss social climbing in eighteenth century London, birdsong, water and the Arcadian landscape of Acis and Galatea.

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Crimes of Passion: Puccini, Leoncavallo and verismo

Fri 26 April 2024

Conductors Francesco Cilluffo and Matthew Kofi Waldren, director Martin Lloyd Evans, and Doctor Alexandra Wilson, author of The Puccini Problem and Opera in the Jazz Age, join Anna Picard to discuss the meaning of ‘verismo’, with music from Morgan Pearse and Stuart Wild.

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Make ‘em laugh!: On opera and the absurd

Tue 9 April 2024

Singer and director John Savournin, conductor John Andrews, mezzo soprano Clare Presland, répétiteur Fran Hills and critic Robert Thicknesse join Anna Picard to discuss the performance and pitfalls of comic operas from Rossini to Gilbert and Sullivan and Wolf-Ferrari.

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