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.
“An engine of opera development in the UK” – Sunday Times, 30.10.22
2024, 2025 and 2026 Offies Opera award winner. Offies finalists every year since 2013
Our 2026 Summer Concert – 8 August at St. Michaels
Four of our most gifted singers of recent years will thrill you with an evening of unforgettable operatic joy, including arias by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi. Proceeds go to our Alastair Macgeorge Singers’ Fund. More details, including tickets, here.
#26 Off West End Awards
Congratulations to Theano Papadaki (Performance, Poppea), Ashley Pearson (Staging, Poppea) and Jonathan Darbourne and HGO Orchestra (Sound and Mmusic, Cenrentola – Philip Sheffield holding the award here) – winners of 2026 Offie Awards!
‘Poppea’ is a hit!
Our November 2025 production of ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’ was a sell-out! – see photos and reviews here