Hampstead Garden Opera

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Hampstead Garden Opera (HGO) was founded in 1990 by Dr Roy Budden as an evening class at the Hampstead Garden Institute, London. As Hampstead Garden Opera Trust Ltd, it is a UK charitable trust (registered charity no. 1168484). Its objectives are " to advance the education of the public in the art and science of music, and operatic music in particular, by encouraging and promoting the study, knowledge and understanding and appreciation of operatic art, and by promoting and/or organising performances, concerts, lectures and readings of opera, operetta and musical works generally to the highest possible standard in Great Britain and elsewhere."[1]

Objectives

HGO brings live opera, fully staged with orchestra, and offers performance opportunity and training to young singers. It performs two fully staged operas each year, usually in English. Upstairs at The Gatehouse, Highgate Village, in the London Borough of Camden, was HGO's home from March 2001 until May 2016 when it relocated to the Jacksons Lane Theatre in Highgate. HGO is affiliated to the National Operatic and Dramatic Association.

The original intention was to concentrate on the major operas of Mozart, but the repertoire has expanded to encompass works by Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flotow, Charles Gounod, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Puccini, Johann Strauss II and Giuseppe Verdi. Since 2001, HGO has produced operas including Mozart’s Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Clemency of Titus and The Magic Flute, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and The Tales of Hoffmann, Puccini’s Il Trittico and Madam Butterfly, Bizet’s Carmen, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and Donizetti's Elixir of Love.

The HGO production of Mozart's Così fan tutte won Best Opera Production 2012 at the Off West End Awards.[2]

HGO's production for May 2018 was Verdi's La traviata; in November 2018 it will produce Domenico Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto.

Board

The Directors of the Company and Trustees of the Charity as at June 2018[3] are:

  • David Conway – Chairman
  • Alastair Macgeorge – Chairman Emeritus
  • Martin Musgrave – Deputy Chairman
  • Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
  • Linda Hirst
  • João Rufino

HGO's Co-Presidents are Dame Emma Kirkby and Howard Williams.[3]

Productions 2009 - date

Forthcoming productions

References

  1. ↑ "1168484 - HAMPSTEAD GARDEN OPERA TRUST LTD". Charity Commission for England and Wales. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Full list of the winners of the Offies 2013". OffWestEnd.com website. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Hampstead Garden Opera". Hampstead Garden Opera website. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Karlin, David (1 May 2009). "Carlisle Floyd's Susannah at Hampstead Garden Opera". Bachtrack. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  5. ↑ White, Michael. "Punchy Opera - and all on a pub stage" (PDF). HGO. Hampstead and Highgate Express. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  6. ↑ Karlin, David (24 April 2010). "In praise of Mozart in small spaces". Bachtrack. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  7. ↑ Karlin, David (5 November 2010). "Mozart's Magic Flute at Hampstead Garden Opera". Bachtrack. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  8. ↑ Chandler, David (22 November 2011). "Hugh the Drover Over the Pub". Opera Today. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Chandler, David (9 May 2012). "My Big Fat American Moustache: A Wartime Così Fan Tutte". Opera Today. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  10. ↑ Karlin, David (12 November 2012). "Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at Hampstead Garden Opera". Bachtrack. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  11. ↑ Church, Michael (22 April 2013). "Classical review: Mansfield Park, Hampstead Garden Opera, Gatehouse Theatre, London". The Independent. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  12. ↑ Karlin, David (12 November 2013). "Hampstead Garden Opera entertain thoroughly with Figaro". Bachtrack. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  13. ↑ Coghlan, Alexandra (28 April 2014). "La Calisto, Hampstead Garden Opera: Cavalli's gods and goddesses take up residence in North London". Theartsdesk.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  14. ↑ Kjerntrup, Inge (13 November 2017). "The Enchanted Pig review at Jacksons Lane, London – 'hugely enjoyable'". The Stage. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  15. ↑ Shapiro, Yehuda (22 May 2018). "La Traviata review at Jackson's Lane, London – 'youthful energy'". The Stage. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
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