Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda and Nicholas Thurbin as Flavio - Alastair Muir Handel’s great 1725 opera Rodelinda is as confusing as any from the Baroque era, but underneath the shifting alliances there is a ...

Glyndebourne first partnered with the London Philharmonic back in 1964; it has taken until the last decade for other summer opera companies to follow suit. The change has been dramatic: Grange Park ...

Laura Wilde as Lisa and Aaron Cawley as Herman - Alastair Muir After the bright daylight and saucy flirtations of Garsington Opera’s season-opener The Elixir of Love, their second night plunged us ...

Weddings, as we all know, can be a minefield. All that tepid champagne and no canapés to soak it up, long hours of vertical drinking and bad dancing, heightened emotions and strange combinations of ...

A manor house nestling snugly in six acres of glorious gardens – could there be a more perfect setting for al fresco opera? Yet Garsington Manor, with its manicured lawns, romantic lake and ...

Instead of extending the natural scene, Robert Innes Hopkins’s simple but original designs paper the walls of the inn where most of the action takes place with leaf patterns, opening out to laddered, ...

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WORMSLEY, Berkshire—The first thing to say about the Garsington Opera's move to the Getty family's estate is that the grandeur of the natural setting beats even that of Glyndebourne. Robin Snell's ...

At last, some good news. You may recall that Garsington Opera is upping sticks from the beautiful but impractical grounds of an Elizabethan manor south of Oxford and moving to the estate of Wormsley ...

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