THE LONDON OPERA COMPANY

ABOUT THE LONDON OPERA COMPANY

The London Opera Company formed in the summer 2020 to give fellow musicians and international opera singers who had lost their work to the Covid pandemic the opportunity to keep performing and to give music lovers a first class treat after a summer devoid of live concerts.

In October 2020, the LOC gave its inaugural performance: a sold-out and rapturously received chamber concert of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at The Warehouse, London. 

Opera magazine said, of this performance, 'Not only was there no weak link in the cast; strength of ensemble and dramatic interaction rendered it considerably more than the sum of its parts...Above all, this was an accomplished and moving    

company debut.'

Peter Selwyn will be Music Director for this project and will now be arranging a version of the opera for piano, percussion and an assortment of instruments, including bass clarinet and bass trumpet. 

Having assisted on productions of Die Walküre at Bayreuth and Covent Garden, Peter is excited by the challenge of conveying the essence of Wagner’s powerful and beautiful score with a small number of crucial instruments, which will

bring out important motifs and add weight to the bigger moments, such as the Ride of the Valkyries, yet also bring

subtlety and colour to the more beautiful passages.

Cast:

SIEGMUND – BRIAN SMITH WALTERS

SIEGLINDE - GWENETH-ANN RAND

HUNDING – SIMON WILDING

WOTAN – SIMON THORPE

BRÜNNHILDE – CARA MCHARDY

FRICKA – HARRIET WILLIAMS 

GERHILDE – JAQUELINE VARSEY

ORTLINDE – PHILIPPA BOYLE

HELMWIGE – NATASHA JOUHL

WALTRAUTE – HARRIET WILLIAMS

SIEGRUNE – CAROLYN DOBBIN

ROSSWEISSE - ANGHARAD LYDDON

GRIMGERDE – KATHERINE TAYLOR-JONES 

SCHWERTLEITE – RHONDA BROWNE