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| 19 July 2024 until 2 August 2024 | |
| 7.30pm Opera Holland Park Theatre Ilchester Place London W8 6LU Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0 )300 999 1000 From £24 | Acis and Galatea Michael Papadopoulos, conductor Louise Bakker, cirector Alyson Cummins, cesigner Johanne Jensen, lighting designer Merry Holden, choreographer Anthony Gregory, Acis Elizabeth Karani, Galatea Chuma Sijeqa, Polyphemus Ruairi Bowen, Damon G F Handel: Acis and Galatea Composed in 1718 for private performance in the gardens of the Duke of Chandos’s palace, and based on an episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Handel’s tragicomic serenata is a miniature masterpiece of love, loss and transformation. Birdsong and murmuring waters weave through the music as the sea nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis celebrate their mutual love, enraging the lustful cyclops, Polyphemus. When Polyphemus attacks Acis, the shepherd is transformed into a natural spring, forever at one with the idyllic landscape and the tears of his beloved nymph. Louise Bakker directs Opera Holland Park’s first production of a Handel opera. Former Opera Holland Park Young Artist and alumnus of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker scheme Michael Papadopoulos conducts, with Anthony Gregory and Elizabeth Karani as the lovers, Acis and Galatea. South African bass-baritone Chuma Sijeqa takes the role of Polyphemus, the cyclops driven mad by unrequited passion. |
| 17 July 2024 until 3 August 2024 | |
| 7.30pm Opera Holland Park Theatre Ilchester Place London W8 6LU Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0 )300 999 1000 From £24 | Il segreto di Susanna / Pagliacci Il segreto di Susanna: John Andrews, conductor John Wilkie, director Takis, designer Mark Jonathan, lighting designer Clare Presland, Countess Susanna Richard Burkhard, Count Gil John Savournin, Sante Pagliacci: Francesco Cilluffo, conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, director Bridget Kimak, designer Mark Jonathan, lighting designer Richard Harker, chorus master and assistant conductor David Butt Philip, Canio Alison Langer, Nedda Robert Hayward, Tonio Zwakele Tshabalala, Beppe Harry Thatcher, Silvio Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci A double bill fuelled by sexual jealousy contrasts Wolf-Ferrari’s elegant honeymoon comedy with Leoncavallo’s shocking story of a double murder. When Gil detects the scent of a cigarette in his apartment, he assumes that his wife, Susanna, has taken a lover, but Susanna’s secret is not what it seems. When Canio the clown is told that his wife, Nedda, is unfaithful, he determines to wreak revenge on her and her lover, bringing a bloody end to their Harlequinade. Sophisticated and deadly, Pagliacci was purported to be based on true crime, while Il segreto di Susanna anticipates the screwball comedies of 1930s Hollywood, with music of delicious wit and charm. Clare Presland, Richard Burkhard and John Savournin reunite for this first revival of John Wilkie’s stylish 2019 production of Il segreto di Susanna. Now the leading tenor of his generation, David Butt Philip returns to Opera Holland Park to make his role debut as Canio in Martin Lloyd-Evans’s new production of Pagliacci, conducted by Francesco Cilluffo. Alison Langer sings the role of Nedda, Canio’s unhappy wife, with Harry Thatcher as her lover, Silvio. |
| 27 July 2024 until 4 August 2024 | |
| Worcestershire Details: Web site | Worcester Three Choirs Festival |
| 7 August 2024 until 10 August 2024 | |
| 7.30pm Opera Holland Park Theatre Ilchester Place London W8 6LU Details: Box Office Web site +44 (0 )300 999 1000 From £24 | The Yeomen of the Guard David Eaton, Conductor John Savournin, Director Alyson Cummins, Designer Jake Wiltshire, Lighting Designer Merry Holden, Choreographer Richard Harker, Chorus Master William Morgan, Colonel Fairfax Matthew Kellett, Jack Point Llio Evans, Elsie Maynard Samantha Price, Phoebe Meryll Stephen Gadd, Sir Richard Cholmondeley Amy J Payne, Dame Carruthers John Savournin, Wilfred Shadbolt Jack Roberts, Leonard Meryll Darren Jeffery, Sergeant Meryll Natasha Agarwal, Kate Christopher Killerby, First Yeoman Alistair Sutherland, Second Yeoman Ben Newhouse-Smith, First Citizen Stuart McDermott, Second Citizen W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard In the gloomy bulk of the Tower of London, Colonel Fairfax awaits his execution for the trumped up crime of sorcery. Helplessly in love with Fairfax, Phoebe Meryll is but one of the characters whose heart is as vulnerable as the colonel’s head in Gilbert and Sullivan’s tongue-twisting Shakespearean comedy. With the arrival of two strolling players, Jack Point and Elsie Maynard, the scene is set for a daring escape, sparking a series of misunderstandings and reluctant marriage proposals. Opera Holland Park and Charles Court Opera join forces for their fourth co-production. John Savournin directs and takes the role of Wilfred Shadbolt, Head Jailor and Assistant Tormentor, while David Eaton conducts the City of London Sinfonia in this new production of The Yeomen of the Guard. Full casting to follow. |
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