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Opera Prelude compares and contrasts Bernstein and Weill
Opera Prelude’s emerging artists bring out both contrasts and similarities in Trouble in Tahiti and The Seven Deadly Sins.
Fun, if not quite fizzy: Liam Steel’s Opera Holland Park Fledermaus
It's New Year’s Eve 1929-style, but the Champagne is a touch warm in OHP's first production of Strauss’ most popular operetta, Die Fledermaus.
Eugene Onegin on the road: Wild Arts plays Opera Holland Park
Tchaikovsky stipulated that a staging of Eugene Onegin need not be lavish but should be kept in period. He would have been satisfied with the results here.
Jonathan Dove’s Itch at Opera Holland Park
Simon Mayo’s Young Adult novels are turned into an operatic romp which explores the fascination of the elements with excellent music and setting, albeit riddled with plot lacunae.
A strikingly colourful Ariadne auf Naxos from Nederlandse Reisopera
Juliana Zara and Annemarie Kremer lead the cast in a riotous, yet deeply touching, new production from Nederlandse Reisopera.
A feast of Purcell in Sir David Pountney’s Masque of Might
Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell.