• Opera Integra: L’elisir d’amore

    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    L’elisir d’amore is one of the most loved of all Donizetti’s operas. It combines touching romance and hilarious comedy with beautiful music, including Nemorino’s enchanting aria ‘Una furtiva lagrima’. The opera’s premiere in Milan in 1832 was a triumph and secured Donizetti’s place as one of the leading Italian opera composers of his day. Opera Integra…

  • Opera Integra: Cavalleria Rusticana

    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    On Friday 22 October we welcome an evening of dramatic opera from Opera Integra. The first half will be a complete performance of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, one of the most dramatic operas in the repertoire, and which includes the wonderful Easter hymn at its heart.  The second half will comprise the party scene from Verdi’s…

  • Opera Integra: The Merry Wives of Windsor

    On Friday 25 February 2022 we welcome Opera Integra back with a full-length comic opera in concert - Otto Nicholai's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Based on the Shakespearian comedy, the opera presents the two neighbouring wives getting their own back on the world of men. Having both received the exact same unsolicited letter of love…

  • Opera Integra: Lucia di Lammermoor

    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    On Friday 25th November 2022 (7.30 pm), we welcome Opera Integra back (following their recent offerings of Cavalleria Rusticana and The Merry Wives of Windsor) with a full-length opera in concert that was postponed in July due to covid - Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Based on a Sir Walter Scott novel, it is a perfect…

  • Opera Integra: Roberto Devereux

    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    OPERA INTEGRA's next project (following The Merry Wives of Windsor and Lucia di Lammermoor at St Peter's last year) is Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, the least performed of his "Tudor queens" series. Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda are presented regularly, but not so this opera - but, why?. Musically it is superb, with extraordinary arias and…