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About Us
Hatstand Opera: the professional UK opera company who love to entertain!
Hatstand Opera offer you the laughter, passion and sheer joy of professional opera, sung live by experienced opera singers who love what they do!
For almost 20 years, Hatstand Opera have presented innovative and entertaining opera highlights performances in venues across the UK and beyond.
The best live opera performances – anywhere you like!
Hatstand Opera are uniquely equipped to bring entertaining opera performances to any venue, or to your special occasion, whether corporate entertainment, charity fundraiser, birthday party, wedding, special anniversary or music festival.
Only Hatstand Opera offer you:
- innovative, fun opera highlights shows that delight and entertain all ages
- extensive repertoire from favourite arias such as “Nessun Dorma” to pop classicals such as “Nella Fantasia”
- excellent core of experienced opera singers and performers, accompanied live by expert concert pianists, all equipped with a great sense of humourvast touring experience with the ability to fit into any space, large or small
- entertaining, light-hearted presentation blended with top quality singing
- choice of quality, exciting shows, including tailor-made opera for your event
- comprehensive public liability insurance
Hatstand Opera are an international opera group “for hire”, at prices that will delight you! For more information, call us today on 01252 511762.
What clients do Hatstand Opera work with?
Hatstand Opera enjoy entertaining a wide range of clients in the UK and beyond, from UK companies, major charities, theatres, arts festivals to opera lovers throwing a special party in their back garden! For more details, see our Venues Page.
To book your live opera performance by Hatstand Opera performance, just click here and tell us all about it.
Who performs with Hatstand Opera?
All our performers are experienced opera singers who work with all the major UK opera companies and beyond. They also perform with Hatstand Opera, because they just love it! Our opera stars also enjoy delighting audiences with a wide variety of music, from grand opera, operettas, classic musicals, Gilbert and Sullivan to popular song.
They are also more than happy to sing live in almost any venue or space. This ability to create musical magic almost anywhere is what sets Hatstand Opera apart from so many other opera companies in the UK.
A Little Bit of Hatstand History…
Hatstand Opera was founded by mezzosoprano Kirsty Young, making their company debut on Classic FM in a live broadcast just before Christmas 1993! From the very beginning Hatstand were touring the country performing for rural touring schemes, an initiative to bring the best quality entertainment to small and often isolated rural communities across England and Wales. Our performers sang up to 85 shows a year, each in a different venue, to audiences new to live classical music, let alone opera. This wealth of experience ensures we can sing almost literally anywhere, with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of impact.
As the audiences enjoyed our shows so much, we were asked to perform at their private parties, birthday celebrations, weddings and corporate events. Many asked us to help raise fund for charity with an opera performance round dinner, or as an open air opera picnic event.
Theatres and music festivals got to hear of us too, and soon we were in demand to create bespoke performances in festivals across the UK, from a chicken-themed tour of Northern Ireland venues to becoming the Company in Residence at the BOC Covent Garden Festival for two years.
See our Case Studies for some of the fun and unusual performances we’ve created over the years.
Today, we still do all this (bar the rural touring), and we love it, especially since more and more of our performances are raising much needed funds for cash-strapped charities. Thanks to our policy of creating a new show every two years, we can offer a range of shows in repertoire, or are equally happy to create a bespoke show to your requirements.
