In an age of resurgent conflict and frenetic demands on our attention, our 2025 Choral Pilgrimage: Angel of Peace offers a slice of tranquillity in many forms courtesy of luminous, purifying music traversing six centuries. From the enraptured songs of the medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the magical realm of a brand new work by the contemporary composer Anna Clyne, nine pieces of music from across the centuries speak of peace and acceptance and the ecstatic joy their reassurance can bring.

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The Choral Pilgrimage 2025

Chichester Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral

Greyfriars Kirk

Southwell Minster

St George's Church

St James' Church, Egerton

Tewkesbury Abbey

Truro Cathedral

Wells Cathedral

Derby Cathedral

National Concert Hall

Hereford Cathedral

Hexham Abbey

St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London

Peterborough Cathedral

Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, leads the celebrated Pomona College Glee Club in a bouquet of unaccompanied music by Williametta Spencer, Will Todd, Paul Mealor, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Christoph Bach, and Sean Kirchner. The program will also feature Handel’s magnificent Dixit Dominus, performed with student soloists and Harmonologia Pomona a period-instrument ensemble in collaboration with faculty members Malachai Bandy (violone), Alfred Cramer (violin), Cynthia Fogg (viola), and friends.

Pomona College Glee Club

Pomona College

After a successful run of performances at Smith Square Hall in 2024, Opera Holland Park brings back Will Todd and David Simpatico’s enchanting musical retelling of A Christmas Carol. Scored for eight singers, a trio of piano, double bass and accordion, and actor, Todd weaves the melodies of traditional Victorian carols and the midwinter chimes of handbells through each episode of Charles Dickens’s seasonal ghost story.

A Christmas Carol 2025

Rackleys Chiltern Hills

Smith Square Hall

After a successful run of performances at Smith Square Hall in 2024, Opera Holland Park brings back Will Todd’s enchanting musical retelling of A Christmas Carol. Scored for eight singers, a trio of piano, double bass and accordion, and narrator, Todd weaves the melodies of traditional Victorian carols and the midwinter chimes of handbells through each episode of Charles Dickens’s seasonal ghost story.

A Christmas Carol

First seen al fresco in 2012, Will Todd and Maggie Gottlieb’s free-wheeling, tongue-twisting adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s surreal classic for Opera Holland Park gives voice to the curious and curioser characters of the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, and a positively terrifying Queen of Hearts in music that darts from a coloratura showpiece for a singing Bottle to the smoky blues of a Caterpillar with no work ethic.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Opera Holland Park

Will Todd

Events

Upcoming events

15 - 16 Dec, 2025

A Christmas Carol 2025 · Opera Holland Park

Dec 16, 2025

A Christmas Carol · Sinfonia Smith Square

19 - 27 Jun, 2026

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland · Opera Holland Park

Past events

Jun 20 - Oct 4, 2025

The Choral Pilgrimage 2025 · The Sixteen

25 - 27 Apr, 2024

Pomona College Glee Club · Pomona College

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