Mahogany Opera is emerging as an exciting new force in the world of opera.
Artistic Director Frederic Wake-Walker draws together artists and ideas to create full-scale productions, collaborative projects and Collective Thinkings.

Our next project, Towards a New Movement draws together artists from the worlds of opera, jazz, visual art and film to create an event that is as aesthetically seductive as it is psychologically challenging.

More details to follow but in the meantime read below the reviews for our last production, Russian Tales.

one of the most exciting and electrifying evenings I’ve spent at the opera in recent seasons

Opera Magazine on Russian Tales

russian tales
The Fox by Igor STRAVINSKY
The Bear by William Walton
April 2008 at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh and the Village Underground, Shoreditch

‘Frederic Wake-Walker is the brains behind Mahogany Opera, an electrifying young company…This benevolent venue combined with a provocative and arresting staging to make Mahagony’s double bill one of the most exciting and electrifying evenings I’ve spent at the opera in recent seasons. Wake-Walker took Stravinsky’s "Renard" and Walton’s "The Bear" and presented them in tandem without a break‚ so that the first melted effortlessly into the second...it was "Renard" presented in an extraordinary non-naturalistic staging inspired by the stage directions of the great Soviet-era director Vsevolod Meyerhold that lifted the evening and made it something truly special.’
Roderic Dunnet Opera Magazine

‘Freddie Wake-Walker is the enterprising young director and founder of Mahogany Opera‚ which for the last few years has been playing with various different theatrical traditions...Wake-Walker and designer Anna Jones brought this folktale to life...through deft re-translation and characterization.’
Robert Thicknesse The Tablet

'Freddie Wake-Walker’s Mahogany Opera Company followed last year’s successful staging of Britten’s Curlew River with Russian Tales‚ a piece cleverly weaving together Walton’s The Bear and Stravinsky’s The Fox...Props as spartan as one could get gave the director more or less a bare stage‚ which he used effectively‚ creating an exciting production showing an industrial cartoon-like picture of a world consistently on the move. Wake-Walker seems a young director on the move. His work is imaginative and well-planned and local audiences can have a taste of it at Glyndebourne on Tour this year. He’s directing The Magic Flute'
Tony Cooper EDP