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Opera Holland Park Team Cosi!

We had a great time last month collaborating with the Opera Holland Park team for a pop up performance of our Cosi Fan Tutte in Chelsea & Westminster Hospital as part of their Inspire programme. Thank you to all the Baseless Fabric loyal supporters who came along to see it – and we had some wonderful reactions from newbies too including:

“It brightened up my day”

“It reminded me of the days when I used to go to the opera”

“I just had an awful appointment and watching this really cheered me up”

It was lovely to revisit such a fun production from our early street opera days with a brilliant new cast and in a new location – and a new piano score re-arranged by our longterm collaborator Leo Geyer, Constella Music. Hopefully we’ll be able to make more of these collaborations happen in future too so stay posted!

With hugest thanks to the team for all their hard work!

CAST

Fiordiligi – Lucy Anderson

Dorabella – Shakira Tsindos

Ferrando – Philip Costovski

Guglielmo – Jack Holton

Don Alfonso – Alex Jones

Piano – Fran Hills

 

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Cosi Fan Tutte Collaboration with Opera Holland Park!

We are thrilled to announce that we have a pop up performance coming up this November in collaboration with Opera Holland Park! We are partnering with the lovely team at OHP to present a 25min section of our adaptation of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in the foyer of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital on Wednesday 15th November at 1.30pm. Usually OHP present a simple monthly concert of opera & classical songs here but we convinced them to try something a bit different!

Our Cosi Fan Tutte, first seen back in 2017, was the OffWestEnd Award Finalist for Best Opera Production and gained 5 star reviews from Operissima. With a modern English libretto by Joanna Turner (with new 2023 updates – because social media has changed since then don’t ya know!!) and a new piano arrangement by Leo Geyer, Constella Music as this won’t be a promenade performance but Chelsea & Westminster Hospital have a piano in their foyer!

So come join us on 15th November to see a revival of our Baseless Fabric adaptation in an exciting new space! We can’t wait to see you there!

What amazed me about the Baseless Fabric experience is how naturally this production fits into its locations, a testament to the scrupulous research work which must have gone on beforehand, as well as the quality of everyone’s performances.- , Operissima
This production is tremendous fun- , LondonTheatre1.com