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Bradley Daley in Longborough’s Siegfried
© Matthew Williams-Ellis (2022)
Opera Holland Park

In the UK, it’s not all country houses and picnics. Opera Holland Park has been entertaining
audiences under its London canopy for decades, often staging rare Italian verismo and
building up a fiercely loyal fan base in the process. This year sees new productions
of Pagliacci – a coup to secure top tenor David Butt-Philip – which is paired with a Wolf-
Ferrari revival, plus The Barber of Seville and OHP’s first foray into Handel, Acis and
Galatea. The centenary of Puccini’s death is marked with a concert semi-staging of his
early opera Edgar, plus the return of Stephen Barlow’s Tosca, which I’ve never seen but I
know several people who rate it as one of the finest Tosca stagings they’ve witnessed!