James Clutton
@JamesOHP
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CEO and Director of Opera, Opera Holland Park
Joined February 2010
I have never been more proud of the team & family @operahollandpk than I am today. #WeAreOperaHollandPark.
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I know that @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK @maitlis @jonsopel @lewis_goodall enjoy the Oasis/Blur banter but it is amazing to have both @RestIsPolitics & @TheNewsAgents with us right now & possibly more importantly - it gives me some genuine hope that both podcasts are SO popular.
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Wow. 34 years ago today. #LiveAid @wembleystadium - Great to have been there. Seems a lifetime ago. And like yesterday.
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As the events of last night were unfolding, it was a pleasure and a privilege to meet and talk to the brilliant @AngelaRayner
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That lovely feeling: when you are so engrossed in a book that it just feels like the author is there with you. @PetrocTrelawny #TrelawnysCornwall
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Heartbreaking day. In the end inevitable, but that didn’t make it any easier to speak or write to the hundreds of amazing people that work on every aspect of the @operahollandpk season. I am sorry we couldn’t do it. We tried. And we will come back stronger. #WeAreOperaHollandPark.
As a consequence of the UK government’s advice relating to COVID-19, we are extremely sorry to inform you that the 2020 season scheduled to take place between June and August in our theatre in Holland Park will now not take place. Full statement:.
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Over the last few weeks, we have employed about 90 freelancers on our gigs @operahollandpk including conductors, singers, musicians, crew, photographers and film makers. Nothing like normal but it’s a start. And we NEED to start. To be producing work and employing freelancers.
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I am very excited about producing the UK premiere of Little Women @operahollandpk next summer. In the roles of the four March sisters we have @CharlotteBadham (Jo), @kittywhately (Meg), @ElizabethKarani (Amy) and Harriet Eyley (Beth). And I couldn’t be happier.
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OHP is not defined by a building. It is defined by the freelancers who start their careers with us & come back year after year, singers, the crew, creatives, musicians, stage mgt, staff, volunteers, the members & supporters; our audience. All of us #weareoperahollandpark
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Thank you to EVERY single person on and off stage that made it such a successful season @operahollandpk - so much talent, dedication, skill & love goes into making a season happen. Particularly these days. Thank you to everyone who came to see us and supported us in any way. ❤️
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What a day! Thanks to EVERYONE involved in pulling this together. Magical day @operahollandpk with @MatthewKWaldren conducting amazing OHP principal singers & @CityLdnSinfonia string quartet. Amazing work on & off stage. ❤️ Thank you all. It was great to be back at our home.
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Sending so much love to so many people today. But particular love & thanks to these 3 incredible producers. We have worked together on the 2020 season for two years. And cried together today in a virtual meeting on Zoom 🤷♂️. Photos from happier, non social distancing days. ❤️ 💔
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Always an emotional day. Seems like yesterday. But also like a very long time ago. Today marks 5 years since the Grenfell fire where 72 lives were lost including our beloved friend, Debbie Lamprell. She & all those who tragically lost their lives remain forever in our hearts 💚.
Today marks 5 years since the Grenfell fire where 72 lives were lost including our beloved colleague, Debbie Lamprell. She and all those who tragically lost their lives remain forever in our hearts 💚
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.Thank you to every single member of the @operahollandpk team: on and off stage for such a wonderful season.
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She’s only gone and won it!!! The brilliant @angela_clutton & #TheVinegarCupboard - winner of Debut Cookery Book category @Fortnums 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @ewanventers @ClaudiaWinkle #FANDMAWARDS
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Another long day. But one thing that is clear again & again, day after day is just how resilient, imaginative & resourceful artists are. Especially in these times, it blazes through. Singers, conductors, directors, designers et al - all helping in the search for solutions.
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Well, we did it. We opened a season @operahollandpk. SO many people have worked so hard for do long to get here. Nice to have a quiet moment with this man at the end of the night. @takis_DESIGN #OHP2021 #reimagining #design
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What the well dressed producer and repetiteur are wearing for auditions in 2020. #fashion #opera @operahollandpk
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First day of #OHPCosi rehearsals on stage. #Exciting - There is still work going on backstage too. Delighted with this new room backstage @operahollandpk
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Commissioning & producing a new opera at this time is either brave or daft. Probably a bit of both. But I am so excited to finally get to the world premiere @operahollandpk tonight. So many people to thank: EVERY single person who has worked on it & made it such a creative joy.
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Stunning spectacle with brilliantly detailed organisation and actually very moving. And as for the Bearer Party. And of course I am biased because of the nature of my job, but music absolutely central to the whole experience.
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Just the most extraordinary audience reaction to the #OHPTraviataYA @operahollandpk school’s matinee. A genuine standing ovation from 1000 schoolchildren. Stunning. One of the greatest curtain calls I have ever seen. Pop star like reactions to @AliLanger @StephenAviss et al.
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Very proud to stand alongside so many of my freelance friends in Parliament Square today. #wemakevents #opera. Stunning, beautiful sound made by incredible artists including @natalyaromaniw @rhianlois @GrantDoyleMusic @peterauty1 @MaryCBevan & many others. More photos to come.
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Thank you to all the @operahollandpk team for getting us to this point. And all the fabulous freelancers in every area who have been so resilient & imaginative and come along with us. And of course to the very brilliant @takis_DESIGN whom I am proud to know and work with. ❤️
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#operaawards @TheOperaAwards Education and outreach category. #OHPInspire Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssss!!!!! We won!.
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What kind of day has it been? Well, reviews for the double bill have started to come in: .⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Telegraph .⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Stage.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Times.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evening Standard.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Classical Source.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Culture Whisper.#OHPSusanna #OHPIolanta .@operahollandpk
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Very happy that we have been shortlisted for an award @RoyalPhilSoc - thank you to every single person on and off stage @operahollandpk who worked so tirelessly over the last year to get us here. The way the dates work this is only up to the end of the first half of #OHP2021
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A few weeks late to this but an absolutely brilliant episode of @RestIsPolitics Leading with Antony Gormley talking to @campbellclaret & @RoryStewartUK about Art. What a brilliant mind, voice & imagination. Stunning.
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Absolutely thrilled that we have been nominated @TheOperaAwards in the Festivals category. SO many people on AND off stage contributed to this. Thanks to every single person involved @operahollandpk #OHPTraviata #OHPCosi #OHPAriadne #OHPIsabeau #HopeForGrenfell #OHPInspire
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Thrilled to join the dream team of @maitlis @BBCJonSopel @awzurcher & @dinosofos for a brief appearance on the very brilliant #Americast -
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Genuinely not quite sure what people who are on the tube and not wearing masks (about 50% on the Piccadilly Line today) think when they hear the announcements, see the posters or see the rest of us wearing masks. It’s over? Doesn’t matter? Difficult to imagine. #WearAMask.
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Very excited to be bringing our production of Tosca back to @operahollandpk in June 2024. Last seen at Opera Holland Park in 2008 and then at Richmond Theatre in 2009. #OHP2024 #OHPTosca
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Absolutely thrilled that me and @NoisyMV have just collected an award @MusicTeacherMag “Awards for Excellence” on behalf of everyone who worked on the #HopeForGrenfell Gala. Special Editors Award. What an emotional night that was. Thank you to EVERYONE involved. @operahollandpk
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Backstage. Sort of. What a team. And it’s not even the whole team. Nice album cover. @NardusWilliams @Vonniemezzo @kiandrahowarth @blaise_malaba @DavidButtPhilip @AliLanger @operahollandpk #Homecoming
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Going to be a tough week ahead. Should have been the week we started music rehearsals for #OHPOnegin and #OHPRigoletto @operahollandpk - going to miss it and everyone involved. @danealam @MatthewKWaldren @Anna_Patalong @AnushH_Soprano @nickythespence @SamuelDaleJohn2 et al. ❤️.
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Boom! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - First review out for #OHPBallo @operahollandpk - 5 stars from Michael Church in @Independent. @MatthewKWaldren @Rodope @duprels @MatteoLippi @AliLanger @rosplowright @takis_DESIGN @CityLdnSinfonia
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Have to say that I am absolutely thrilled that the very great @DavidButtPhilip will be returning to @operahollandpk next summer to sing the role of Canio in Pagliacci as part of #OHP2024. More casting to be announced soon.
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As the theatre starts to be taken down again, a short time to reflect on one of our greatest ever seasons. Thank you to every single person involved in the creation of it and every single person who supported us or came to anything @operahollandpk . ❤️. #WeAreOperaHollandPark
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Brilliant from @MarinaHyde “At Rashford’s age – 22 – Johnson’s chief interest in food distribution was limited to which bread roll to chuck first at a pleading restaurant owner.”.
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Glad that the “audition uniform” memo went out in good time @operahollandpk @mfoulger and Stuart Wild
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Well, can you believe it? First day of music rehearsals for @operahollandpk - #OHPFigaro has just started. @ConductorGeorge and Stuart Wild with @rossramgobin @ElizabethKarani @julienvmnz - oh my.
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Well, well. Here we are then. #OHPFigaro meet & greet @operahollandpk. What a feeling to be back. @ollyplatt @ConductorGeorge @takis_DESIGN @rossramgobin @ElizabethKarani @NardusWilliams @julienvmnz @sopranoclaire @jimclevbaritone @vickymezzo @dannormski @SamJeanPrice
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Absolutely thrilled by the reaction to ITCH @operahollandpk, our new opera by @dovecomposer & Alasdair Middleton based on the novels by @simonmayo. The first reviews are now in .⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Times.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Telegraph.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Guardian.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Culture Whisper
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Very, very pleased we are back onstage @operahollandpk tomorrow WITH @MatthewKWaldren @CityLdnSinfonia @natalyaromaniw @DavidButtPhilip @Vonniemezzo @LaurenAshFagan @NardusWilliams @Anna_Patalong @AliLanger @SamuelSakker @ClarePresland @blaise_malaba @rossramgobin @kiandrahowarth.
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Just some of the fantastic artists after #OHPRequiem @operahollandpk last night. An amazing group of people. Thank you.
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Thanks to everyone who gave me support and love this year. Personally and professionally. Happy New Year. And love to you all.
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Thanks to everyone for their messages of support over the last few days. Greatly appreciated.
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In 2015, @operahollandpk was the 1st opera company in the UK to hold a “relaxed performance”. Great to be holding another one today, for #OHPPirates Thanks to everyone in the OHP team, volunteers & our audience on an idyllic afternoon. @sopranodaisy @ROSIEPURDIE1 @sophiemezzo
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A very difficult night here but thank you to every single member of the @operahollandpk team - in every single role on AND off stage for dealing with everything with care & thoughtfulness and in a manner that makes me even more proud of this wonderful team.
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Well, at the end of a hard and emotional year @operahollandpk - can I just say thank you to every single person involved: on stage, off stage and in the audience for the work, love, talent and support that kept us going in 2017. Here’s to 2018.
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So lovely to see this starting to go up. And a meeting in person. On site. @operahollandpk @chloebridgen @goodingalex @PaulSalmon22 & Laima.
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Earlier: @operahollandpk and friends in front the Statue of St. Volodymyr in Holland Park, singing the Ukranian National Anthem in support of 🇺🇦.Very emotional. Thank you to everyone who came along. ❤️
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In this place: A lot of laughs. New friendships made. Longstanding friendships renewed. New memories made & an amazing amount of hard work. Then walk through this door & on to the @operahollandpk stage. The magic created seems even more incredible when the theatre is dismantled.
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What a lovely line from John Allison in the latest edition of @operamagazine - Greatly appreciated by everyone here. “Despite the pandemic or perhaps because the company is responding creatively to new challenges, @operahollandpk is performing at a higher level than ever.”.
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A very proud production office. With Imogen, @mfoulger and @Miriam_Verghese with our newly arrived @BroadwayWorldUK award for “Theatrical Event of the Year” for the #HopeForGrenfell Gala. @RugbyPortobello @operahollandpk @natalyaromaniw @SopranicBrit @NadinBenjamin @susanbu1
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Just heard the very sad news (via @operamagazine) of the death of Steuart Bedford. Loved working with Steuart on The Turn of the Screw here @operahollandpk in 2014. A privilege. Fantastic musician. Lovely man. Wonderful times. RIP
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Very pleased to be able to send schedules for the music week & first 2 weeks of production rehearsals for #OHPOnegin out to cast & team today. Part of our ongoing commitment to @swap_ra & working practices. Thanks to all the @operahollandpk team & esp @danealam & Julia Burbach.
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The 2023 season @operahollandpk #OHP2023 .Rigoletto.Hansel and Gretel.La boheme .Itch - World Premiere of a new opera by @dovecomposer .Ruddigore - co-production with @charlescourt.
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#OHP2017 Main stage productions @operahollandpk - thanks to everyone on & off-stage who made it happen.
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Following the fabulous success of #OHPPirates - our co-production with @charlescourt @operahollandpk this summer, I am delighted that we will work together again as part of #OHP2022 with a new production of H.M.S. Pinafore. 📷 - Me & @jsavournin on stage at OHP last week.
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So excited for the UK premiere of Isabeau @operahollandpk tonight. Exciting day @duprels @DavidButtPhilip and all of our fantastic team #OHPIsabeau.
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These two. What can I say? What incredible talent. @natalyaromaniw @DavidButtPhilip - a pleasure and privilege to hear both of them back @operahollandpk again last night.
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Even people who know me & @operahollandpk sometimes underestimate the sheer volume of #OHPInspire work we undertake all year round. To give some idea: Since October we have made 50 individual visits to various care homes, hospitals & refuges. #community #WeAreOperaHollandPark
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A lovely early Christmas present. Itch listed in Best of 2023 Opera in @Telegraph by @NickRKenyon. So proud of EVERY single person who made this happen. To commission a new piece at this time & for it to be received as it was feels just fabulous . @simonmayo @dovecomposer
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Great to welcome their Chief Executive Nicola Candlish @stage_manager and host the brilliant @BYOpera @operahollandpk this week. In these times we need to stand up and help each other whenever we can. Great to have BYO with us - with two productions on throughout this week.
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Great to be there today alongside these wonderful people. Love, Love LOVE that @ianmhm is centre stage on this. 😘❤️ Well done today to all of the organisers, conductors and singers #WeMakeEvents @natalyaromaniw @peterauty1 @rhianlois @jackdridley @BethELynch @MimiDoulton.
Opera singers have gathered outside of parliament to protest #coronavirus measures that have shut down theatres. Latest on #COVID19:
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And it is a Merry Christmas from me and it’s a Merry Christnas from him. Goodnight. @NoisyMV @operahollandpk #MerryChristmas
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And so: The last day of #OHP2018 @operahollandpk It has been a great season but please do NOT say to me today: “Hasn’t the season gone quickly?”
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Fabulous @IAmTheEggPod Live @operahollandpk yesterday. So pleased for the hero of the hour @ChrisShawEditor - who brought so much LOVE into the room with him. With a brilliant line-up of guests @SamiraAhmedUK @StuartMaconie @quantick @marklewisohn and PC Ray Dagg aka @robmanuel
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Emotional & thrilling to have our fantastic chorus back @operahollandpk yesterday. Missed them all so much this summer. Great work, led by @richardbharker. @ianmhm @NaomiKilby @ali_the_bari @Justpolina @midbradley @Benjns @_Carradonna_ @lahdiva01 @LiamPMcNally @MezzoJoanna et al
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Backstage with the six amazing principal singers & some of the creative & production teams after the opening of #OHPCosi @operahollandpk last night. @kittywhately @LaTynan @elliedennis17 @PCWOpera @LesterNicholas @NickPritch89 @ollyplatt @danealam @AlysonCummins @ROSIEPURDIE1
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Something that seemed exciting yet so normal for years, now seems incredible: #OHPFigaro Music rehearsals start on Monday. @ConductorGeorge @ollyplatt @rossramgobin @NardusWilliams @ElizabethKarani @julienvmnz @vickymezzo @jimclevbaritone @dannormski @SamJeanPrice @sopranoclaire.
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Just awful news. So many memories. Was really looking forward to having Keel back @operahollandpk next summer. Will write more when I am able. I just can’t tonight. Lots of love mate. ❤️.
James and all the OHP team are stunned and heartbroken to hear the sad news about the death of our friend Keel Watson. Keel had worked with us for over 20 years and we made thousands of incredible memories together. Our love and thoughts extend to his close friends and family.
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Thank you so much to @redman1_amanda - who along with Harry, Louis & all the team @69colebrookerow @DrinkFactoryLTD plus @ianmh for make-up, @chloebridgen & Philippa @operahollandpk all made the filming with me & @NoisyMV today so enjoyable. #OHP2018
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