Founded in 1998, the company staged an annual opera festival at the grange, in hampshire and in 20167, built a new opera house theatre in the woods at west horsley place the 350acre estate inherited by author and broadcaster bamber gascoigne in 2014. Fiddler on the roof, grange park opera the arts desk. The grange festival opened on 7 june 2017 with operas by monteverdi, mozart, bizet and britten. Charcoalcovered books litter the set in grange parks new arresting production of samson et dalila. Only 23 miles from london by the surrey hills, grange park opera founded in 1998 is one the major summer opera festivals in europe. They met in may 2015 and she discovered she was pushing at an open door, with. Weve been offline for a year now whilst making big changes to our whole operation. Like a giant mushroom, britains newest opera house, the theatre in the woods, has soared from nothing, towering between the trees to house three important productions in the first year of grange park opera at west horsley place, in surrey. Now established as one of the nations most important opera festivals, it has a reputation for attracting bigname singers and delving into lesserknown works of the nineteenth century canon.
Grange park opera grange park 20 june to 16 july 2015. Grange park opera theatre in the woods, epsom road, kt24 6an west horsley rated 4. Each term the robins sing from a speciallyprepared song book. Grange park opera lease to end in 2016 after dispute with. Jan 10, 2017 grange park opera programme 2015 published on jan 10, 2017 read in depth about the 2015 season with operas. In march 2015, the barings, unexpectedly, terminated the hampshire lease and, searching. Grange park opera at horsley will let us introduce more people than ever, young people. Grange park opera has opted to engage tessitura consulting for some recent projects, such as the finance project described above, and campbell enthuses that theyve been great. Grange park opera had been using the nearderelict home of the baring banking dynasty since 1998 and had built a festival, which could compete. Having only recently played sweeney todd, and indeed throughout a varied career, terfel has proved that he can treat lighter music with respect and sincerity, not to mention plenty of good humour. The luxurious grange park opera programme book encapsulates our annual opera season. Ross, one of kanis biggest grange park opera donors in his carphone warehouse days, decided to go it alone six years ago with a team led by ni operas music director, nicholas chalmers. Opera house the theatre in the woods west horsley place kt24 6an how to find us. Free seats for wildlifecostumed fans at grange park operas new.
The grange festival, northington, hampshire, united kingdom. Grange park opera theatre in the woods west horsley. This wellknown biblical tale has been set by director paul mason as a nazis versus jews fight. Ponchiellis opera is set in venice, where love and duty collide with dramatic results. The grange park opera has been moved on from its semiderelict. Rising antisemitism in europe makes an excellent time for grange park to stage this story that ends with the forced abandonment of a jewish stetl in imperial russia.
Against all the odds, grange park opera have succeeded in building a 750 seat opera from the ground up in the space of just 11 months, in their new home in surrey. Fiddler on the roof, grange park opera, june 2015 mark ronan. Dramatic art is the art of a portraitist, gounod wrote in his. Grange park opera uses cookies to enhance your experience of the website. Preorder and receive a voucher to redeem at west horsley place. Grange park opera opera house in guildford, guildford visit surrey. The bitter feud behind the opera held at bamber gascoignes. The bitter feud behind the opera held at bamber gascoignes stately. Three new opera productions alone make enormous demands upon any planning exercise. Midsummer murders grinding poverty and death at knifepoint. The grange festival is one of those extraordinary events that is really hard to describe.
West horsley place, an enchanting 15th century house by the surrey hills, is home to grange park operas elegant summer festival. Its been the same sort of friendly, helpful support that we get from the support line in the uk as well. Romeo et juliette, grange park opera the critics circle. With three weeks to go, rehearsals in full swing and a plethora of tasks to complete and conundrums great and small to resolve before the curtain goes up for opening night of the 15th grange park opera festival season, it is a wonder that grange parks irrepressible founder wasfi kani has any time at all to sit down and talk about her operatic interests, her plans and her many projects. Grange park opera is a professional opera company and charity whose base is west horsley. These are the very words one hopes to hear from the head of a. The new grange park opera at horsley is amazing, as everyone who visits it must agree. Grange park opera is to leave its hampshire home of 17 years after a dispute with its landlords, who have set up a new company in its stead. The story began in march 2015, when kanis boyfriend showed her an.
Grange park opera had been using the nearderelict home of the baring banking dynasty since 1998 and had built a festival, which could compete with garsington, longborough festival opera and. Just the day after the opening of the grange festival at their former venue, opera lovers flocked to west horsley to see joseph calleja make his role debut as mario cavaradossi in tosca. Place in a room overlooking the flower garden and lined with books. The picnickers are scattered over the manicured lawns, between the box hedges and against the ancient brick walls of the old mansion, anticipating a firstrate performance in grange park operas purposebuilt theatre. Fiddler on the roof, grange park opera, june 2015 posted on 6 june 2015. Jenufa, grange park opera, west horsley place the critics. Grange park opera discover all events at grange park opera. Explore the 2020 operas, member happenings and the prison project. Aug 16, 2017 grange park opera, northington, united kingdom. Leatherhead, west horsley place, west horsley, map.
The grange festival dedicated to performing worldclass opera in the heart of. Grange park operas oliver great show, shame about the. Grange park operas inaugural tosca by bachtrack for. Hotels near grange park opera theatre in the woods. Sorry, there are no tours or activities available to book online for the dates you selected. He was given the task of creating from scratch a new opera company and putting together rather hastily the first season in 2017 after the unexpected announcement shortly before the departure of grange park opera from the grange. But the show is compelling, the production is highly effective, thoughtprovoking, well. Jun 06, 2015 fiddler on the roof, grange park opera, june 2015 posted on 6 june 2015. He accepted the invitation to be artistic director of the grange festival in october 2015. You have to see it to believe it especially as it is about so much more than the performances themselves. In these unparalleled, unexpected times, every arts organisation is fighting for its life. Grange park opera theatre in the woods west horsley 2020 all. The grange park opera, which runs from june 4 th to july 18 th, was founded in 1998.
However, at west horsley place, grange park opera as it will be. High jinks and skulduggery offstage at grange park opera as its founder wasfi kani ups sticks and heads for a new base in a woodland glade in surrey, leaving another regime to take command of. On 2 may 2015 wasfi kani and some trustees of grange park opera. A final rehearsal of eugene onegin at the grange, 20 book tickets for our 2015 season. View all hotels near grange park opera theatre in the woods on tripadvisor. Grange park opera has always had a great reputation for the quality of its productions, but for many londoners, the trip out of town to its old hampshire home was a bit of a hike. There in the pale of settlement where permanent residency of jews was allowed, life could be hard, balanced precariously like a fiddler on the roof.
More poverty, drug dependency, a hurricane, another stabbing. Grange park opera has always made a conscious effort to develop our opera goers by widening the demographic through schools, young peoples groups and by targeting people who have never heard an. Grange park opera programme 2015 by grange park opera issuu. Grange park for example produces three operas each summer, but buxton festival offers much more than that. Even the length of verdis longest opera becomes effortless with a 90minute picnic break in the grounds of an estate bamber gascoigne unexpectedly inherited and then agreed could provide a new home for wasfi kanis unstoppable grange park opera.
And the second night audience increasingly responded to this marvellously staged musical, so that by the time the cast gave us a warmly spontaneous rendition of consider yourself they clapped along with the music. An italian opera known for its lilting dance of the hours is given a new production. Members only book now more info thu 08 oct 2020 18. Welcome to the grange festival 2020 dedicated to world class opera and dance in the heart of hampshire. A 99year lease from the mary roxburghe trust, into which bamber. After little over a year, in which time planning permission was secured and the building process all but completed, grange park opera has a new theatre in. Park avenue armory will embark on the eighth year of its recital series, a series of intimate chamber music performances in the austerely elegant board of officers, intended to continue the salon. Only 23 miles from london by the surrey hills, grange park opera has become one of the major summer opera festivals in europe. A new opera company led by michael chance cbe has been launched to continue performances at this hampshire landmark. Jun 19, 2017 natalya romaniw as jenufa and susan bullock as kostelnicka. With a tangible sense of excitement, the first ever audiences have clambered in with high expectations. In 2015 a dispute arose over rental payments and, as a result, grange park opera left the grange estate after the 2016 season. Jun 25, 2018 standards at grange park opera are high, starting with the vocal security and resplendence of both of the principals, tokar as juliette and the korean tenor david junghoon kim as romeo.
May 11, 2012 with three weeks to go, rehearsals in full swing and a plethora of tasks to complete and conundrums great and small to resolve before the curtain goes up for opening night of the 15th grange park opera festival season, it is a wonder that grange parks irrepressible founder wasfi kani has any time at all to sit down and talk about her operatic interests, her plans and her many projects. Rather than operatic hopefuls, these are singers who already have an established presence on the opera stage. The grange park opera has been moved on from its semiderelict stately home after 17 years, to be replaced by the newly formed grange festival esther. Were still the same people though and still offering a huge range of great value books covering many subjects. Grange park opera, a notforprofit organisation, was founded in 1998. This is the champagne lawn, said ms kani, showing me round the new grange park opera at west horsley.
Tosca, grange park opera, west horsley place, surrey, uk. In 2017, the company moved from hampshire to a purposebuilt theatre in the woods at west horsley place the 350acre estate inherited by author and broadcaster bamber gascoigne in 2014. I know of no other festival on our scale that brings such a huge number of visiting artists who form our festivals offerings each year. Many matches are made in fiddler on the roof but the matchmaking prize goes to grange park opera for getting bryn terfel to take on the role of tevye. Anyone expecting swathes of drapery, biblical style robes and sandals or indeed a conventional orgy might be disappointed by this production, but those who appreciate the unconventional as long as it is appropriate and makes you look at a work in a new way, will come away from grange park feeling very happy.
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