The London Opera Company gave their first concert in October 2020, a chamber version of Tristan at The Warehouse. Opera magazine called it "an accomplished and moving company debut" and noted that the ensemble work was "considerably more than the sum of its parts". Since then they have worked through the Ring - Die Walküre in 2023, Siegfried in 2024, Götterdämmerung last year - building toward this October 18th performance at Sinfonia Smith Square with a full orchestra. Peter Selwyn conducts, and the cast will be announced soon. This is a not-for-profit operation running on affordable tickets, which means they are doing this because they believe in it, not because the spreadsheet told them to. The musicians are a mix of professionals and talented semi-professionals from London's music colleges - the kind of setup that either works beautifully or falls apart entirely, and judging by what Opera magazine heard in 2020, and what the reviews say about their 2022 Tristan performance (a 70-piece orchestra at Smith Square that drew particular praise for Act Two) - which can be heard in the video below), they have learned how to make it work. If you have sat through enough concert performances of Wagner to know the difference between one that merely gets through it and one that actually finds the thing, you will want to hear what they do with this one. More Information can be had by clicking HERE
