Each summer, a major, popular opera festival takes place just off Kensington High Street in a temporary theatre erected in Holland Park. Before Opera Holland Park got going in 1996, the venue was ...
Children – and adults for that matter – will recognise The Brothers Grimm fairy tale involving a poor and angry mother sending her children into the forest to pick strawberries after a spilt milk ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Always ready to embrace novelty, Opera Holland Park has handed out a unique invitation to Zandonai’s Francesca ...
Any company planning a Richard Wagner staging would be well advised to proceed with caution; they’re among the biggest challenges in the repertoire. Opera Holland Park has indeed adopted a cautious ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This November 7th at 7:30 pm at the Room&Board showroom on Newbury St in Boston, ...
Driven by propulsive motor rhythms and percussion ticks, Dove’s score has the same slick statelessness as Andrew Riley’s designs. Here a bit of Copland (alright, a lot of Copland), there some Ravel, a ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A rare opera needs its champions. Somebody at Opera Holland Park clearly loves Mascagni’s Iris, a pioneering Japanese ...
While Glyndebourne, Garsington and the Granges all offer an exceptional summer opera experience, there is one venue in the heart of London that provides a similar taste of bucolic bliss. It is Opera ...
Opera Holland Park manages a production which overall is far more coherent than those seen at Covent Garden, English National Opera and the Met. Rating: * * * * It’s hard to argue with the common view ...
OPERA Holland Park’s 2017 summer season, from June 1 to July 29, is the first to be entirely planned and programmed as an independent company. This may be why general director Michael Volpe and opera ...