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
Waltz, schmaltz, hard cash and champagne: Lehár’s The Merry Widow
Tue 31 March 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 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.
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Il 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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L’arlesiana
Francesco Cilea Sat 20 July – Fri 2 August 2019Opera Holland Park’s acclaimed strand of operatic rarities continues with Francesco Cilea’s tragedy of desperate passion in the heat of rural Provence. First performed in 1897, L’arlesiana established the career of the great tenor, Enrico Caruso, and gave voice to a figure who would become central to Italian opera, the mother.
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The Royal Ballet School 2019
Thu 4 – Sat 6 July 2019The Royal Ballet School returns to Opera Holland Park for four impressive shows featuring its talented young artists-in-training. These spectacular performances will feature a mix of classical ballet repertoire, contemporary and character pieces. Students will perform work by choreographers including Frederick Ashton, Marius Petipa and David Bintley. This is a very special opportunity to witness the achievements of gifted young dancers from one of the best ballet schools in the world.
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Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi Sat 8 – Sat 29 June 2019Political intrigue, illicit love and a baleful prophecy. Un ballo in maschera sets a tense love triangle against the background of an assassination plot. Reason and superstition vie for supremacy in the opera that was dubbed ‘Verdi’s Tristan’.
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Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini Tue 4 – Wed 26 June 2019Premiered in 1893, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut turned a sentimental novel into an operatic sensation. In the opera that made Puccini’s name, a convent girl becomes a courtesan, then a convict, unable to choose between a life of luxury and a life of love.
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Dido and Aeneas with Juilliard
Henry Purcell Sun 9 June 2019Juilliard415 and singers from Juilliard's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts visit Opera Holland Park as part of their European Tour to perform Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
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Christmas Concert
Sat 7 December 2019 St Columba's Church, KnightsbridgeToast the festive season with Opera Holland Park at St Columba's Church in the heart of Knightsbridge. Join us for an atmospheric evening of sacred and seasonal music, songs and arias from our principal artists including Nadine Benjamin, Alison Langer, Yvonne Howard and Ross Ramgobin, along with celebrity guest readings and Christmas Carols.
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