This critically acclaimed production won an Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production when it premiered in 2008. Since then, PARTENOPE has been seen all around the world and returns to the London Coliseum for its second revival.
When it comes to PARTENOPE’s love life, complicated doesn’t quite cover it. Settle in for Handel’s first operatic rom-com, where all isn’t fair in love and war.
Find out if love is on the cards and if honesty wins, in this complex game of romance, where not everything (or everyone) is as it seems.
Book your PARTENOPE theatre tickets with LOVEtheatre today!
Finding The One isn’t easy. Especially when you’re tangled up in a tricky love quadrangle.
Join our social butterfly PARTENOPE and her three potential suitors – Arsace, Armindo and Eurimene – in this timeless tale where boys meet girl, girl falls for boy, and another ‘boy’ is really a girl looking for revenge on a boy… keeping up?
Tickets available for performances from Thursday 20 November – Saturday 6 December 2025.
3hrs 30mins with one interval.
Nardus Williams (Partenope), Hugh Cutting (Arsace), Ru Charlesworth (Emilio), Jake Ingbar (Armindo), Katie Bray (Rosmira), William Thomas (Ormonte).
Christian Curnyn (Conductor), Christopher Alden (Director), Andrew Lieberman (Set Designer), Jon Morrell (Costume Designer), Adam Silverman (Lighting Designer), Claire Glaskin (Movement Director), Elaine Brown (Revival Movement and Intimacy Director), Amanda Holden (Translator).
15+
'‘not to be missed’'
'‘This production’s a treat’'
'‘everything is a delight’; ‘witty and sharp-tongued’'
