Bill Bailey – Summer Larks

Bill Bailey, ‘the finest stand-up comedian this country has to offer’ (The Times), becomes the first performer of his kind to step out for a week of performances on the Royal Opera House Main Stage.

This Strictly Come Dancing champion brings music and laughter with a compendium of traveller’s tales compiled over his two decades as a touring minstrel. Expect musical virtuosity, surreal stylings and trademark intelligence as he tackles politics, philosophy and the pursuit of happiness. Listen as he fashions a symphony from a ringtone, gasp as he tells the real story of Old MacDonald and raise an eyebrow as he re-imagines the ‘Stars and Stripes’. Bill will be joined by special guest Florence Hvorostovsky.

Twenty years of touring shenanigans from a comedian described by The Telegraph as ‘the brainiest comic of his generation’.