OPERA
Covent Garden is home to the Royal Opera House and The London Coliseum which are both just a short walk from the hotel. Read on to discover what magnificent operas are showing at these and other venues in London during the upcoming months.
The Royal Opera House (5 minute walk)
Tosca
4 March to 20 July 2013
Drama, passion and fabulous music - Tosca is one of the great
evenings of opera. Jonathan Kent's production is set against the
turbulent backdrop of Rome in 1800.
Gloriana
20 June to 6 July 2013
Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our
time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of
the heart.
Turandot
9 September to 10 March 2013
Andrei Serban's staging of Puccini's final opera is a glorious
pageant of rich colour, dance and drama.
Le Nozze di Figaro
16 September to 15 May 2013
Revolution is in the air in David McVicar's production of Mozart's
glorious comedy.
Elektra
23 September to 12 October 2013
A daughter's grief turns to bloody revenge in Charles Edwards's
production of Strauss's most daring opera.
The Wasp Factory
2 to 8 October 2013
Opera with a sting in the tail: Iain Banks's cult novel is
transformed into gripping music theatre by electro-acoustic
composer Ben Frost and librettist David Pountney.
Meet the Young
Artists
14 to 19 October 2013
The ever-popular autumn showcase for the rising stars of The Royal
Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists programme.
Les Vêpres
Siciliennes
17 October to 11 November 2013
A great, neglected Verdi opera is brought to the Royal Opera House
for the first time in an imaginative new staging by Stefan
Herheim.
Greek / The Killing
Flower
21 to 26 October 2013
Greek is a blazing and brilliant retelling of the Oedipus story by
Mark-Anthony Turnage. The Killing Flower sees Music Theatre Wales
present Salvatore Sciarrino's bewitching opera, based on the true
story of Renaissance madrigal master and murderer Carlo
Gesualdo.
Wozzeck
31 October to 15 November 2013
Keith Warner probes the psychological depths of Berg's
20th-century operatic masterpiece.
Parsifal
30 November to 18 December 2013
Wagner's final, majestic opera returns to Covent Garden in an
inventive new staging by director Stephen Langridge and designer
Alison Chitty.
How The Whale
Became
10 December 2013 to 4 January 2014
Ted Hughes's magical stories provide inspiration for a new Royal
Opera commission by Julian Philips and Edward Kemp.
The London Coliseum (10 minute walk)
La Bohème
29 April to 29 June 2013
See Jonathan Miller's beautiful staging of Puccini's tale of
doomed love in bohemian Paris.
Death in Venice
14 to 26 June 2013
Deborah Warner's acclaimed production of Britten's final
masterpiece. Two unspoken themes run throughout this opera: the
impossible passion that a troubled writer forms for a fellow hotel
guest, and the cholera epidemic which the authorities are all too
keen to hush up.
Fidelio
25 September to 17 October 2013
Calixto Bieito's unique vision of Beethoven's only opera explores
the psychological prison of each character, in a production which
is contemporary and yet abstract, and which always seeks to
challenge our expectations and certainties about this much-admired
opera.
Die Fledermaus
30 September to 6 November 2013
Johann Strauss's classic operetta is a comic story of revenge,
seduction and mistaken identity, centred on a high-society party
thrown by Prince Orlofsky. Man-about-town Eisenstein is to be
jailed, his wife is being seduced by an old flame, his friend Dr
Falke has a plan to exact revenge for a past prank, and everybody
wants to go to the party!
Madam Butterfly
14 October to 1 December 2013
Hailed by The Sunday Telegraph as 'the most beautiful show of the
year in operatic London', Anthony Minghella's award-winning Madam
Butterfly returns to ENO.
The Magic Flute
7 November to 7 December 2013
Complicite's artistic director Simon McBurney reveals fresh layers
of meaning in a production that offers a remarkable visual and
physical response to Mozart's theatrical genius.
Satyagraha
20 November to 8 December 2013
A huge success at its London premiere in 2007 and at the
Metropolitan Opera, New York, the following year, Philip Glass's
operatic masterpiece returns to ENO.
Peter Grimes
29 January to 27 February 2014
The most significant British opera in over two centuries, Peter
Grimes is a work of visceral and sustained beauty. This is the
first revival of David Alden's 2009 five-star sell-out
production.
Rigoletto
13 February to 14 March 2014
Featuring some of Verdi's most immediately recognisable music, this
is a must-see new production of a classic of the opera
repertoire.
Rodelinda
28 February to 15 March 2014
Widely considered one of Handel's operatic masterpieces, Rodelinda
is infused with compelling characters and ravishing music.
Our Concierge team would be delighted to give you the inside knowledge on what to see and do during your stay. Allow us to arrange tickets for the best seats at your chosen opera and assist with organizing any aspect of your trip.
With the Royal Opera House and the Coliseum both just moments
away and a fantastic fixed price menu available at Axis at One
Aldwych and Indigo, One Aldwych is the perfect place to eat before
catching a show.
£18.75 for two courses | £21.75 for three courses
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