GUSTAV HOLST'S COMEDIC OPERA AT OPERA HOLLAND PARK

On discovering this little work last year. Orginally scored as a simple children's piece , we set about developing the work and commsisioning a new arrangement scored into a more adult and family fun opera.The aim is to produce a more gritty, comedic  and darker  work, a mix of Kurt Weill, Tiger Lilies and Gilbert and Sullivan.

After hours and hours of love and sweat we trialed it last year and now we showcase the work locally in Hertfordshire and at Opera Holland Park on Tuesday 27th June 2023

The money raised will go towards the production costs of staging it at such a big venue. The venue hire alone is £3500 of the budget even before we start ...so any help would be enormously welcome. 

Gustav Holst’s The Idea 

Discover the delight of this little known, family fun, theatrical operetta

The Prime Minister has had an Idea…. 

This early and tuneful composition by English composer Gustav Holst is an unexpected far throw from his best known orchestral suite The Planets. Holst’s collaboration with his 22 year old contemporary of The Royal College of Music Fritz B Hart fuses a sharp, witty and satirical libretto, Holst’s catchy tunes, inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan, woven into a joyful fresh new arrangement by Patrick Vincent.

In a witty and surreal adapted staging by director Paula Chitty. The Prime Minister of this great and glorious country interrupts the wacky court of a rambling king and clown faced queen to announce his great Idea.

Irrational Theatre specialises in the Best of British opera and plays – librettists, composers and playwrights.

Composer - Gustav Holst | Librettist - Fritz B Hart |Arrangement – Patrick Vincent

| Director /designer – Paula Chitty | Dance gestures – Elizabeth George

Cast inculdes : 

Ross Hobson | Valeria Perboni | John Stivey | Eleanor Rosser-Smyth | 

Anibal Miranda Muriel 

Musicians include: 

Jack Blue |Patrick Vincent ! Kitty Larder | Rebecca Maule| Joy Mendelsohn