In 2022, Opera Holland Park put on Giacomo Puccini’s neglected first opera, Le Villi. It was a great success, so why not follow it with his second, Edgar? There’s just one problem: it is truly ...

Le Villi is an opera-ballet in two acts composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.