February 2021

Richard Strauss:

Die Ägyptische Helena

Greek myth, elves, the face that launched those thousand ships, impostors, sorcery, and a psychic shellfish. Obviously.

Now rescheduled to February 2021. Dates tbc.

at the home of Fulham Opera, St John's Church, SW6 1PB.

Due to the current Covid-19 situation, we are holding off releasing tickets. As soon as dates are certain, we will release tickets initially to the Friends of Fulham Opera, and then a month later to the general public.

Conducted by and in arrangement for 16 instruments by Michael Thrift

Directed by Guido Martin-Brandis

Starring:

Justine Viani as Helena

Brian Smith Walters as Menelaus

Luci Briginshaw as Aithra

Ingeborg Børch as the All-Knowing Mussel

Oliver Gibbs as Altair

Dominic J Walsh as Da-Ud

Beatrice Acland as Hermione

with Sarah Jenks and Liza Graham as the Dienerinnen, and Rosalind O’Dowd, Rebecca Moulton and Natasha Elliott as the Elves.

Illustration by Adam Stothard

Past Productions

August 2019: Die Meistersinger

November 2018: Don Carlo (5 Acts, Italian)

July 2018: The Prometheus Revolution (Grimeborn Festival)

November 2017: Lucia di Lammermoor

November 2016: Die Fledermaus

March 2016: Simon Boccanegra

October 2015: Der fliegende Holländer

November 2014: Falstaff

Feb-Mar 2014: Der Ring des Nibelungen

November 2013: Götterdämmerung

February 2013: Siegfried

September 2012: Tosca

May 2012: Die Walküre

August 2011: Das Rheingold