Picnic Opera Holland Park Cosi Fan Tutte

Join us for our now traditional, outdoor Opera evening in one of the most unique London summer evenings!

After last year's total success, we have decided to come back to Holland Park for another evening full of laughter, songs, and good wines!!

Doors open at 5.15 pm and we suggest arriving at 6.15 pm. (Our table will be ready by 5.15 pm, so feel free to come before)

Performances start at 7.15. There is an interval at 8.30-45 pm for 30 minutes. The performance ends around 9.35 / 9.45, and we can go back to our table if we want until it closes at 11 pm. A picnic from an Italian Deli will be made available and is included in the price (along with the cost of the performance). We ask that you Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB) to share with the rest of the group. This particular event is meant to be more about relaxing and networking and less about speakers or wine information.

Below, Holland Park Opera's description:

Slapstick and the sublime collide as two sisters and their beaux are put to the test by a streetwise maid and a devious misanthrope in a series of outrageous seductions.

Mozart and Da Ponte’s delicious 1790 Neapolitan comedy plays on modern ‘scientific’ fascinations with mesmerism and the exotic, characters drawn from the baroque opera buffa tradition and the volcanic rumblings of Vesuvius, all posing the question: is this love or just infatuation?

Cecilia Stinton’s new production of Così fan tutte sees a return to comedy from the director of last year’s highly praised production of Donizetti’s gothic tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor, with designs again by Neil Irish and lighting by Robert Price. Former Opera Holland Park Young Artist and rising star in opera and on the concert platform Charlotte Corderoy (The Barber of Seville, 2024) conducts, with a cast led by Paul Carey Jones (The Flying Dutchman, 2025) and Elizabeth Karani (Acis and Galatea, 2024) as the scheming cynic Don Alfonso and his on/off accomplice Despina. 

They are joined by Paul Grant (Figaro in Stinton’s 2024 Barber) as the hot-headed young solider Guglielmo, and by Madeleine Boreham and Shakira Tsindos (Opera Holland Park Young Artists Hansel and Gretel, 2023) as sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, both of whom enjoy his attentions as the plot unfolds.