Welcome to HGO
NORTH LONDON'S LEADING OPERA COMPANY
We bring opera to North London in fully staged productions with orchestra.
And by advancing young singers we empower the new generation of performers.
Offies finalists every year since 2013
London Opera Award 2020
Le nozze di Figaro
5-14 NOVEMBER 2021
Jacksons Lane Theatre
Lidarti's 'Ester'
HGO’s UK premiere of Cristiano Lidarti’s ‘T’shuat Yisrael al Yedey Ester – The Salvation of Israel by Esther’ (1774), postponed from 2020 thanks to COVID-19 –is now rescheduled for March 2022.
The libretto, in Hebrew, by the Sephardi Rabbi Jacob Saraval, was set by Lidarti, but the oratorio was lost until the manuscript turned up in Cambridge University Library in the 1990s.
New concert videos
Videos from HGO’s 2021 concert at St. Michael’s, featuring our fabulous singers Rusne Tuslaite, Francis Gush, Jack Roberts and Dan D’Souza giving enthralling performances from Monteverdi to Britten, are now available on our YouTube Channel.
Audition call for May 2022 now available
The audition call for HGO’s May 2022 double bill of Blow’s ‘Venus and Adonis’ and Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ can be downloaded here.
Our congratulations to HGO alumni
– To Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Magic Flute and Poppea, 2016 and The Enchanted Pig, 2017) for her fabulous recital as a finalist in the BBC Cardiff
UK premiere of Lidarti’s “Ester”
‘Ester’ has remained postponed from 2020, thanks to COVID-19 – we are rescheduling for March 2022