London Festival Opera Opera Soiree in Regency Costume Brocket Hall

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London Festival Opera party entertainment

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Opera For Weddings, Parties and Special Events

Opera can provide an exceptional party entertainment experience and can inject the special ‘tingle factor’ that only live music can achieve, whether for a birthday party, wedding, anniversary of other celebration. An opera performance can transform a party into something magical and truly memorable for your guests. Opera creates a unique party entertainment. We create opera performances that can link with a dinner in a hotel, a wedding reception in a garden or marquee or an intimate gathering ‘at home’. Opera is about passion and drama, but there are also many lighter moments: Carmen can serenade the guest of honour and give them flowers as she does in the celebrated ‘Habanera’ and Figaro, ‘The Barber of Seville’ and interact with the audience in his famous aria. We work with our clients to create the perfect programme for each occasion including opera, operetta and musicals.

Opera needs an accompaniment, and if a piano is not practical then we can perform with orchestral backing tracks. We can bring our own amplification equipment making it possible to perform in any setting.

Opera can be the perfect entertainment for a Christmas Party too and can end with soloists and audience joining forces in singing a rousing Christmas Carol.

A ‘Surprise Start’ can work particularly well at a private party. Imagine the scenario: your guests are enjoying a drink or dinnerwhen, to their amazement, the waiters burst into singing wonderful opera! Using surprise is an innovative way to add an extra element to uplift any occasion. See our page on ‘Singing Waiters’ for more details.

Accompaniment can be a solo piano, instrumental ensemble or recorded orchestral backing tracks and the artists can appear in glamorous contemporary evening dress or in stunning period costume to create an added visual impact. The opera performance can be presented at the beginning of the event during a drinks reception, or at the end of the evening as a ‘finale’. Alternatively, the performance can be linked with a dinner and presented in two or three sections dovetailed between the dinner courses.

London Festival Opera has presented performances for many private occasions in the UK and overseas including: Claridge’s; The London Hilton; The Dorchester Hotel; The Landmark Hotel; Cliveden; Brocket Hall; Blenheim Palace; Brooks’s; Boodles; Arundel Castle; Berkeley Castle; Castle Ashby; Eltham Palace; Eastnor Castle; Hagley Hall; Hartwell House; Grand Hotel, Brighton; The Baerensall, Berlin; Hotel Serene, Tivoli; Pisani Palace, Venice; Villa d’Este, Lake Como; Dar Donab Palace, Marrakech; Pavilion Hotel, Barbados; Thermal Hotel, Budapest.

Please contact us to discuss the options for creating a party entertainment you guests will remember for ever. Please call Philip Blake-Jones on

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Client Reviews

“Your performance considerably enhanced what was already a magnificent occasion and the result was unforgettable. Without hesitation I will recommend you to anyone who is contemplating organising a unique evening of musical entertainment – it was altogether marvellous!”

Professor Robert MairThe Master, Jesus College, Cambridge

“We are receiving from our guests an ongoing stream of letters and calls in which all who attended praise the quality of your performance and the rousing atmosphere it created in their minds and memories. Many have said they have never in their lifetime had such a wonderful musical experience.”

A Private IndividualFollowing a private Anniversary Party in the country

“As you know, we had a multi-national audience and opera was exactly the right entertainment! The waiters bursting into song appears to have been the highlight of the occasion and I have received many letters commenting on how wonderfully this worked.”

A Private Individual Following a 50th Birthday Celebration

“You and your team were FANTASTIC! The music was such an essential part of the day, and for many of the guests, their first opera experience. You provided a unique entertainment with top quality singing and a superb pianist. Thank you for taking part so professionally in what was a great day.”

Host of Private EventIn London