This double bill presents two for the price of one. Both Delius’s Margot la Rouge and Puccini’s Le Villi were written for a competition for short operas, Margot in 1902, Le Villi in 1883.

That will be followed by “A Dream Before Summer,” featuring John Nettles’ children’s opera “Wild Things” and a ballet-infused performance of the Puccini one-act opera “Le Villi ...

“With Le villi Puccini did something extraordinary: he was the first to include dance pieces and a narrator in an opera,” explained Alberto Gazale, who does three things: not only artistic ...

A country lass gone astray, Margot (Anne Sophie Duprels, who will return in Le Villi) is in thrall to the pimp Totor (David Woloszko) and her controlling lover L’Artiste (Paul Carey Jones). She ...

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 ...

Margot la Rouge is a French opera by an Englishman; Le Villi is an Italian work through and through. Both are flawed – hence their rarity on stage – but when done with conviction, they prove ...