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Beethoven Opera Holland Park Tama Matheson
6th & 8th of August 2025
Opera Holland Park, London 

Beethoven - I Shall Hear
in Heaven

Performed within a frame of Beethoven’s exquisite music – directed by 2024 Limelight Artist of the Year, Jayson Gillham. 

Nominated for The RPS Storytelling Awards 2020 & 2022

Limelight Artist of the Year 2024, Jayson Gillham

First performed at the Wimbledon International Music Festival in 2021, I Shall Hear in Heaven was nominated for the 2022 RPS Storytelling Award, and has subsequently won huge acclaim in Australia, Malta, and around the UK. This year, I Shall Hear in Heaven brings its magic to Opera Holland Park.

“DAZZLING...A five-star surprise!”     ☆☆☆☆☆

Gyles Brandreth

    

“Art at that level is what makes life worthwhile.    ☆☆☆☆☆

The rest is just survival.”

Stage Noise

    

“A tour-de-force. It was impossible not to be moved.” ☆☆☆☆☆

The Courier Mail

Mozart: Gran Partita
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra

Award-winning writer, director and actor, Tama Matheson, brings his unique theatrical approach to narrate Mozart’s Serenade for 13 Winds, known as the Gran Partita. Tama will accompany members of the English Baroque Soloists, against the backdrop of the magnificent Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College.

Mozart Gran Partita Monteverdi
May 3rd 2025
Greenwich
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Beethoven - I Shall Hear
in Heaven

When the ghost of Ludwig Van Beethoven appears to pianist Jayson Gillham, concerned that music has lost its meaning in a musically-oversaturated world, the audience is plunged into an extraordinary retelling of the composer’s life-story – hurled along the strange and wonderful path of Beethoven’s biography, narrated by the ghost of the composer himself, and re-lived as though it were happening before them.

Moving through Beethoven’s dreadful childhood, his early successes as a virtuoso, the world-shattering onset of his deafness, his titanic determination to overcome it, and his ultimate triumph and resolution in music, this play with music paints a picture of Beethoven’s life that will leave audiences breathless with emotion.

Written by award-winning playwright and actor, Tama Matheson, with world-renowned pianist Jayson Gillham at the piano, this is a performance unlike any other.

Sponsored by Mr and Mrs Robin Aird

May 15th 2025
Newbury Spring Festival

Nominated for The RPS Storytelling Awards 2020 & 2022

Limelight Artist of the Year 2024, Jayson Gillham

“DAZZLING...A five-star surprise!”

Gyles Brandreth

    

“Art at that level is what makes life worthwhile.

The rest is just survival.”

Stage Noise

    

“A tour-de-force. It was impossible not to be moved.”

The Courier Mail

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