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Finely sung but unambitious

11 Jul 15 / The Guardian

In purely musical terms, there is little with which to find fault

11 Jul 15 / Classical Source

Delibes’ romance makes a positive impression in Aylin Bozok’s new staging

11 Jul 15 / The Stage

Shorn of excess exoticism

11 Jul 15 / Bachtrack

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An overall very good cast let down by an incoherent staging.

29 Jun 15 / Opera Britannia

A feast for the ear

28 Jun 15 / Telegraph

A vacuous romp mired in the pig-trough of mediocrity from the very beginning

28 Jun 15 / Music OMH

The festival’s first-ever production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian spectacular

27 Jun 15 / Financial Times

The end result was gripping theatre, but it wasn't quite the Aida that Verdi envisaged

27 Jun 15 / Opera Today

Some of this production adds up and some doesn't, but there are some impressive performances

27 Jun 15 / Evening Standard

Fright at the Museum: Slater’s Aida flops at Holland Park

26 Jun 15 / Bachtrack

Daniel Slater’s reimagined Aida is sinister and angry, but nothing to do with Verdi

26 Jun 15 / The Guardian

Daniel Slater's new production turns Verdi's opera into a museum piece

26 Jun 15 / What's on Stage

Musical values are high in Holland Park’s production of Verdi’s opera

26 Jun 15 / The Stage

Production-wise, things are a mishmash

26 Jun 15 / Classical Source

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An evening that comes highly recommended

6 Jun 15 / Opera Britannia

Light and dark fight it out with Puccini in the park

5 Jun 15 / The Guardian

Opera Holland Park’s 2015 season has got off to an ambitious, but highly successful, start

5 Jun 15 / Music OMH

A resounding Puccinian success opens Opera Holland Park’s 2015 season

5 Jun 15 / Seen and Heard

Each piece had its strongly drawn personality

4 Jun 15 / Classical Source

An absolutely wonderful evening

4 Jun 15 / Telegraph

An enjoyable staging of Puccini’s three one-act operas

4 Jun 15 / Financial Times

A patchy evening, very capably conducted and with several star performances

4 Jun 15 / The Stage

All of life is there: Il trittico opens Opera Holland Park's new season in style

4 Jun 15 / Bachtrack

Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas inspires a magnificent company achievement

4 Jun 15 / What's on Stage

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Dove's tale of grounded travellers soars

12 Jun 15 / The Guardian

Taking wing: Dove’s Flight a soaring success for Opera Holland Park

12 Jun 15 / Bachtrack

Jonathan Dove's airport opera in a superb company endeavour by Opera Holland Park

12 Jun 15 / What's on Stage

The first time that the piece has ever been staged professionally in London

10 Jun 15 / Music OMH

Slick production with a galvanised ensemble cast – and uniformly excellent singing

9 Jun 15 / The Stage

A notable achievement for Opera Holland Park

8 Jun 15 / Opera Today

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Cilea's melodrama of jealous divas and political intrigues

29 Jul 14 / Classical-music.com

A lively production of Cilea’s slice of romantic hokum from 1902

28 Jul 14 / Financial Times

Stylish 1940's setting for Cilea's lyrical opera

28 Jul 14 / Planet Hugill

Brave but misguided

26 Jul 14 / Telegraph

There's a lack of on-stage chemistry in this updated retelling of Cilea's opera

26 Jul 14 / The Guardian

A rare outing for Cilea's romantic tunefest concludes this year's sun-kissed OHP festival in style

26 Jul 14 / What's on Stage

Cheryl Barker encompassed both the passion and the poignancy of the title-role

26 Jul 14 / Classical Source

Cilea’s attractive Adriana Lecouvreur looks snazzy and sounds a treat in Holland Park’s new staging

26 Jul 14 / The Stage

The stage manager steals the show

26 Jul 14 / Bachtrack

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Opera Holland Park’s Norma is clunkiness personified

24 Jul 14 / The Spectator

Yvonne Howard and Heather Shipp put in performances of a lifetime as Norma and Adalgisa

23 Jul 14 / Music OMH

Olivia Fuchs finds a satisfyingly contemporary resonance

22 Jul 14 / Classical Source

Yvonne Howard brings depth and credibility to the notoriously taxing title role

22 Jul 14 / The Stage

Bellini's bel canto classic in an arid staging, saved by some great singing

21 Jul 14 / What's on Stage

An effective updating of Bellini's opera boasts an admirable lead performance

21 Jul 14 / Telegraph

The music of Bellini's opera struggles to match the modern context into which it's thrust by Olivia Fuchs

21 Jul 14 / The Guardian

Bel canto meets Abu Gharaib

21 Jul 14 / Bachtrack

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Opera Holland Park reveals cruel, glistening beauty of Britten’s score

4 Jul 14 / Seen and Heard

Britten chamber opera is made even creepier

3 Jul 14 / The Guardian

A flawed triumph

3 Jul 14 / What's on Stage

This modern version of Britten's opera was oddly resonant

3 Jul 14 / Telegraph

A subtly disturbing new production from Annilese Miskimmon

3 Jul 14 / Financial Times

Ellie Laugharne is touchingly vulnerable as the Governess

3 Jul 14 / The Stage

An operatic ghost story - or is it?

3 Jul 14 / Bachtrack

Very fine singing all round

3 Jul 14 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews

This production reflects OHP’s traditional high standards

2 Jul 14 / Classical Source

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Opera Holland Park continues to play from strength with its new production of Rossini’s comic masterpiece

9 Jun 14 / Classical Source

A tale of two hearts: Dickensian Rossini at Holland Park

9 Jun 14 / Bachtrack

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Holland Park Opera go west and excel themselves

6 Jun 14 / Seen and Heard

A heart of gold in the West: Opera Holland Park hits Vegas for Puccini's La fanciulla

6 Jun 14 / Bachtrack

Puccini’s now-fashionable opera gets a 1950s update

5 Jun 14 / Financial Times

Puccini's opera is turned into a slice of quaint camp

5 Jun 14 / Telegraph

Puccini's gold rush enters the atomic age

5 Jun 14 / The Guardian

The show should emerge as yet another triumph for OHP

4 Jun 14 / Classical Source

La Fanciulla del West in Las Vegas

4 Jun 14 / Evening Standard

Susannah Glanville was terrific as Minnie

4 Jun 14 / What's on Stage

An eminently enjoyable evening that can be recommended to connoisseurs and operatic newcomers alike

4 Jun 14 / The Stage

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The feisty heroine Natalya Romaniw is quite thrilling as the wanton Maliella

27 Jul 13 / Musical Pointers

Glittering jewels and clandestine incest amidst leafy Holland Park

26 Jul 13 / Opera Britannia

The music is exuberant, sweet and heartfelt

26 Jul 13 / Classical Source

It may be hokum but this rarely performed opera holds its audience in an iron grip

26 Jul 13 / Telegraph

Opera Holland Park are on top form in this outrageous and little-known work featuring organised crime, rape and suicide

26 Jul 13 / The Guardian

A curious mixture of Italian lyricism and Teutonic metaphysical intensity

26 Jul 13 / What's on Stage

Opera Holland Park’s superb new production embraces the excess of this neglected work

26 Jul 13 / Independent

All round, this could be one of the operatic highlights of the year

24 Jul 13 / The Stage

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Sunflowers and sunshine greet new L'elisir

22 Jul 13 / Opera Britannia

Plant-food and pesticide make a knock-out elixir

22 Jul 13 / Independent

A perfect watch for a hot summer’s evening

20 Jul 13 / The Upcoming

L’elisir d’amore is the ideal summer opera, the ideal way to idle away time in frivolity

18 Jul 13 / Classical Source

For its bright, sunflowery look, though, and its impressive leading couple, this Elixir is quite a tonic

17 Jul 13 / The Stage

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Todd’s music will present no problems to audiences of whatever level of sophistication

22 Jul 13 / The Stage

Charming and non-condescending

22 Jul 13 / Telegraph

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Soula Parassidis has the requisite physical glamour for the mysterious and alluring Leila

27 Jun 13 / Independent