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Opera for Corporate, Charity & Private Events & Theatres internationally. Call now to discuss your next event! Superb Opera Interludes!

Opera is about passion – and we are passionate about Opera!   An evening with London Festival Opera could be the perfect entertainment for your forthcoming special event.  London Festival Opera creates outstanding, bespoke performances of the highest artistic standards in the UK and internationally.  The company creates performances for special events as well as theatre and festival appearances, charity events, birthday parties, weddings and corporate and private events.   With over 30 years’ of experience working with the very best opera and classical singers.  LFO has presented opera for a wide range of occasions and clients: from large-scale VIP galas for global corporations to intimate private parties for individuals wishing to give their guests a really special evening ‘at home’.

Opera Interludes is the associate company of London Festival Opera

It has been an honour to perform for members of the Royal Family on many occasions including a private performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II.  Other performances have been in the presence of His Majesty King Charles III, HRH The Princess Royal and TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex.

London Festival Opera is one of the world’s leading independent touring opera companies and engages distinguished opera singers from the major British opera companies, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and also features exceptional young artists at the beginning of their international careers.

Opera needs an accompaniment.  If a piano is not available or practical we can present a performance with orchestral backing tracks.  We can bring our own amplification equipment making it possible to perform in any setting.

We are thrilled to be developing our programme ‘Opera Magic and have already introduced thousands of children to the magical world of opera.  Join us in helping to introduce the next generation to this wonderful artform.

Nothing beats the thrill of hearing a live opera performance whether in a theatre or auditorium or in the intimacy of a private party.  Opera transcends language and is therefore an ideal entertainment for corporate events, international conferences and other multi-national special events.  We will work with you to create a superb, tailor-made and thoroughly entertaining programme you and your guests will remember for ever in a performance which will appeal to opera lovers and newcomers alike.  An evening with the singers from London Festival Opera is an exhilarating experience.

There is a misconception that opera is stuffy and serious but opera is about love and passion and there are many fun elements.  You could surprise your audience with waiters or fellow party guests bursting into song, or have an operatic version of a pop song such as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.

Opera is an entertainment that needs to be of the very highest calibre and we guarantee to provide you with a performance that will exceed your expectations and that you will always remember.

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OUR HISTORY

London Festival Opera is under the artistic direction of a professional opera singer.  Following a successful solo career with the major British companies, the baritone Philip Blake-Jones founded London Festival Opera in 1989. Based in the UK but performing internationally, our singers have appeared for Presidents, Prime Ministers and senior members of the British and European Royal Families.  Recent engagements have been in London, Rome, Paris, Hamburg, Brussels, Monte Carlo, Marrakech, Mumbai, Barbados and Hong Kong.

Engagements have included a private performance in the presence of  Queen Elizabeth II, charity performances for the Presidents of France and Malta, for the Prime Minster at 10 Downing Street, the Ambassador at the British Embassy in Paris, and as a guest company in one of Italy’s greatest opera houses, La Fenice in Venice during the Carnival Celebrations. London Festival Opera’s track record says it all: with over 30 years’ experience the company is established as the market leader in providing live opera of the highest calibre.

London Festival Opera singers The Barber of Seville on the beach in Barbados

PHILIP BLAKE-JONES (Artistic Director)

Philip Blake-Jones studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. He made his solo debut as an opera singer with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and has also appeared with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Kent Opera, Pavilion Opera and at the Buxton Opera Festival. He has appeared as Giuseppe in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, and also on two national tours with the D’Oyly Carte singing Strephon in Iolanthe (a role he also recorded with the company with critical acclaim). Philip Blake-Jones is the Artistic Director and founder of London Festival Opera.

“A stirring performance and the audience loved it”

THE TIMES

“This was an exhilarating performance by first-rate singers and musicians; opera at its very best.”

OXFORD TIMES

“Outstanding singers.”

THE SUNDAY TIMES

“Opera as near perfection as you could get it.”

THE SUNDAY EXPRESS

“Your music was so fabulous!”

TATLER

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