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Artiste: Xavier Hetherington

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Opera Prelude compares and contrasts Bernstein and Weill

Yanki Yau (Anna II) and Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Anna I) in The Seven Deadly Sins © Julian Guidera
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

Alison Langer (Rosalinde) and Thomas Atkins (Eisenstein) © Craig Fuller
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

Timothy Nelson (Onegin) and Galina Averina (Tatyana) © Allan Titmuss
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

Xavier Hetherington (Itch) © Craig Fuller
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

Ariadne auf Naxos © Marco Borggreve
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

Members of the Opera North Chorus © James Glossop
Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell.