Opera Holland Park Review 2022: HMS Pinafore

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(Photo: Opera Holland Park 2022 © Ali Wright) Following on from last season’s imaginative realization of “The Pirates of Penzance,” Charles Court Opera returned to the Holland Park stage in a co-production of “HMS Pinafore”. W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s satire on class, manners, and buffoonery as directed by John Savournin. Savournin has built quite the reputation in G&S as {…}

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Opera Holland Park 2022 Review: Little Women

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The UK Premiere of Mark Adamo’s “Little Women” was a tad late getting underway. The almost capacity audience at Opera Park Holland needing to be reminded three times to take their seats in order for the performance to commence. Not that Mr. Adamo himself, present at the event in the 5th row back, would have minded much; given that he {…}

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Opera Holland Park 2022 Review: Eugene Onegin

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(Image credit: © Lidia Crisafulli) Julia Burbach directs a new production of “Eugene Onegin” at Opera Holland Park, Tchaikovsky’s passionate realisation of Alexander Pushkin’s classic Romantic verse novel. Bookish Tatyana falls for the lofty, Darcy-ish Onegin, a dashing figure but also a rebarative one. He lets her down gently – thinking he has done the honorable thing, which he both {…}

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Opera Holland Park 2022 Review: Carmen

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(Photo credit: Ali Wright) Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” after the novella by Prosper Mérimée, is a piece that presents plenty of challenges to audiences today. Some are owing to problematic aspects of the text – stereotyped depictions of the Gypsies in the piece, the spectacle of a murdered woman crowning the action – and others simply the weight of tradition and {…}

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Opera Holland Park Announces New Commission in 2023

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Opera Holland Park has announced a new commission and world premiere for 2023. The new work “Itch.” based on Simon Mayo’s bestselling novels “Itch and and Itch Rocks” will be composed by Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton. The opera’s hero will be Itchingham Holte, a teenage scientist on a mission to collect all the elements in the periodic table. {…}

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Anush Hovhannisyan, Anne Sophie Duprels & Louise Alder Lead Opera Holland Park’s 2022 Season

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Opera Holland Park in the U.K. has announced its casting and creative team for the 2022 season. The season will open with a new production of “Eugene Onegin” which is set to be conducted by Lada Valešová and directed by Julia Burbach. The cast will include Anush Hovhannisyan, Samuel Dale Johnson, Thomas Atkins, Emma Stannard, Amanda Roocroft, Kathleen Wilkinson, Matthew Stiff, and John Wood. Performance Dates: May 31-June 25, {…}

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Opera Holland Park Announces 2022 Season

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Opera Holland Park in the U.K. has announced its 2022 season. The company announced that it will open on May 31, 2022 with new productions of “Eugene Onegin” and “Carmen” before presenting the UK premiere of Mark Adamo’s 1998 opera, “Little Women,” adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. The fourth production of the season will be a double bill {…}

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Opera Holland Park 2021 Review: The Pirates of Penzance

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Credit: (OHP Marketing/Opera Holland Park) The last offering from Opera Holland Park’s (OHP) 2021 summer season was another collaboration: W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance”, co-produced with Gilbert & Sullivan specialists Charles Court Opera, postponed from last summer. A Playful Production How do we imaginatively enter the topsy-turvy world of Gilbert & Sullivan, with its surreally distended {…}

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Opera Holland Park Announces Cast Change for ‘Opera in Song: The Marriage of Figaro’

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Opera Holland Park has announced a cast change for its “Opera in Song: The Marriage of Figaro.” The company announced that Nardus Williams is indisposed and will be unable to perform in the upcoming recital on July 27 July. As a result, Louise Alder will be stepping in on short notice. Alder is a well-known British soprano who has performed at {…}

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Opera Holland Park Review 2022: HMS Pinafore

Opera Holland Park 2022 Review: Little Women

Opera Holland Park 2022 Review: Eugene Onegin

Opera Holland Park 2022 Review: Carmen

Opera Holland Park Announces New Commission in 2023

Anush Hovhannisyan, Anne Sophie Duprels & Louise Alder Lead Opera Holland Park’s 2022 Season

Opera Holland Park Announces 2022 Season

Opera Holland Park 2021 Review: The Pirates of Penzance

Opera Holland Park Announces Cast Change for ‘Opera in Song: The Marriage of Figaro’