Hatstand Opera: quality opera entertainment for theatres, music festivals, charity fundraising, private birthday parties, corporate entertainment - or just for the fun of it!
Choose from Hatstand Opera’s wide range of innovative and entertaining opera shows – or a tailor-made bespoke opera performance just for you!
The best Hatstand Opera shows: including our new show for 2009, Vocal Vices.
Quality entertainment for birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, indeed, any party at all!
Wedding Music: wonderful music for your wedding ceremony and wedding reception.
Our top opera shows: for theatres, arts festivals, or your special event. Ideal for charity fundraising too.
NEW FOR 2009: Vocal Vices
Where vice is nice - and the singing simply divine
Take seven deadly sins, a fistful of modern vices, a pride of singers
and an almost penitent pianist, for a night of pure entertainment
heaven. Vocal Vices
is the naughty new show from Hatstand Opera that’s greedy for
good tunes, lustful for laughter but never too proud to be fun!
In this day and age, it seems “Anything Goes”, but all Hatstand shows are definitely naughty but NICE! You can bring your 14 year old and not be embarrassed (unless they giggle at something you don’t understand), and your granny will have a whale of a time too. Combining great songs, wonderful singing, and a ‘twinkle in the eye’ sense of humour, Vocal Vices is Hatstand's best show yet!
To discover more about our seven deadly sings, visit the Vocal Vices mini site!
Hatstand Opera was a riot – a romp with a serious, professional intent. .... This was tuneful and expert singing, presented with the stylishness of cabaret.
Golden Moments from Opera
Our No.1 Show! Golden Moments from Opera continues to thrill with hilarious scenes and heart-rending arias from the world's favourite operas. Hatstand's unique, informal presentation and quick fire costume changes ensure Golden Moments from Opera is ideal for any event.
A splendid performance with your refreshingly straightforward attitude to opera.
A Laugh at the Opera
A rib-tickling romp through everyone’s comic opera favourites, featuring hilarious hairdressers, subversive servants, duplicate lovers and amorous aristocracy! Laughs and surprises from Mozart, Rossini, Bernstein and more.
Most extracts are sung in English, including popular 'pot-boilers' and something really unusual for the buffs. MC and mezzo Kirsty Young introduces who’s singing what, when, and most importantly, why!
Everyone in the audience - and I do mean everyone - was thrilled and delighted by the performance - the humour, the superb singing, the professional presentation, every part of the show.
Opera Can Be Murder
A tongue in cheek look at how opera dispatches its heroes and villains, in extracts by Verdi, Mascagni, Donizetti, Mozart and more. Who knows, you might die laughing...
Opera can be Murder is fresh, furious and highly original, presenting the most dramatic of music in Hatstand's unique informal style. With its entertaining, interactive approach, it's ideal for theatres, arts centres and anywhere with a stage!
A great new show... I would heartily recommend it to other promoters.
Mixing comedy and tragedy is a risky business - the one can be made to seem cold, the other ridiculous. But ‘Opera Can Be Murder’, showed how it can be done. They achieved the rare feat of both moving their audience emotionally and having them roar with laughter, often within the space of a few minutes.
More Hatstand Opera Highlights Shows
More shows that feature ‘the best bits’: fun, informal and packed with the world’s best tunes.
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More Hatstand Opera Themed Shows
From Shakespeare to Alice in Wonderland, shows that have a story to tell...
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More Hatstand Opera Special Shows
Something out of the ordinary, including our operatic wine tasting show
Music of the Vine. Ideal for unusual corporate events – or a fun
charity fundraising event.
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