Past productions & events

Opera Holland Park Christmas Concert

Sat 3 December 2022 St Mary Abbots Church

Join us for a celebration of seasonal music and carols with the Opera Holland Park Chorus and soloists on Saturday 3 December.

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Pre-performance talk – Little Women

Thu 28 July 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

American composer Mark Adamo talks to Anna Picard about the inspiration behind his 1998 adaptation of Little Women, and the opera’s performance history from Houston to Holland Park.

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Pre-Performance Talk – Margot la Rouge / Le Villi

Sat 23 July 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

Professor Thomas Dixon is a member of the Queen Mary Centre of the History of Emotions. In conversation with Anna Picard, he discusses operatic emotions in two contrasting stories of abandonment and revenge from Delius and Puccini.

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Dress rehearsal – Little Women

Wed 20 July 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

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

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Dress rehearsal – Margot la Rouge / Le Villi

Tue 19 July 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

Gold Members, Envoys, Ambassadors, Benefactors, Founders and Jubilee Society members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Margot la Rouge / Le Villi. 

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Pre-Performance Talk – Carmen

Sat 4 June 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

The GRT poet Jo Clement reads from her new collection, Outlandish, and discusses the representation of the Gypsy in Bizet's Carmen with Anna Picard.

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Pre-Performance Talk – Eugene Onegin

Fri 3 June 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music at Oxford University and biographer of Tchaikovsky, discusses the origin and impact of Eugene Onegin with Anna Picard.

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Dress rehearsal – Carmen

Mon 30 May 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

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

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Dress rehearsal – Eugene Onegin

Thu 26 May 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

Gold 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 2022 Online event

A 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 2022 Opera Holland Park Theatre

Members 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 2022 Online Event

Tune 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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