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Grange Festival Announces 2020 Season, Including Community Opera

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The Grange Festival has announced its 2020 season which will feature a number of major operas and even its first fully-stage community opera. The season kicks off with a production of “La Cenerentola” by director Stephen Barlow and conductor David Parry. Josè Maria Lo Monaco takes on the lead role with Nico Darmanin as the prince. Performance Dates: June 5-July 2, 2020 {…}
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OperaVision Preview 2019: Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ From The Grange Festival

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OperaVision will present a live stream of Handel’s “Agrippina” from The Grange Festival on June 6, 2019. The stream kicks off at 7 p.m. local time. That’s around 1 p.m. EDT and 10 a.m. PST for the start time. It will be available for repeat viewings on Opera Vision until Dec. 12, 2019. The opera features Ashley Riches, Anna Bonitatibus, {…}
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Grange Park Opera Announces Its 2020 Festival

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The Grange Park Opera has announced the 2020 Festival. The season will open with a world premiere of Anthony Bolton and librettist Kit Hesketh-Harvey’s “The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko.” The new opera will be based on the true story of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 and died in 2006. The cast will include {…}
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Music Theatre Wales & Fio to Present Community Opera ‘The Trial of Dhegdheer’

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Music Theatre Wales and Fio theatre company will present “The Trial of Dhegdheer” this June. The new community opera was created in collaboration with residents of the Butetown and Grangetown neighborhoods of Cardiff and is set to take the stage on June 13, 2026, at Grange Pavilion in Grangetown. The work is inspired by the Somali folktale of Dhegdheer, a {…}
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The Grange Festival Announces ‘Family Open Day’

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(Credit: Connor Apps) The Grange Festival will open its doors to families for its annual “Family Open Day” on Saturday, May 16, offering children and their families a behind-the-scenes look at one of the UK’s leading summer opera festivals. Supported by Phillips Law and set against the backdrop of The Grange’s historic house and gardens in Hampshire, the event is {…}
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If Opera Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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The If Opera Festival announces its 30th anniversary season. Up first is Bizet’s “Carmen” with the Bristol Ensemble. Laura Stanfield is the set designer and Joe Price is the lighting designer. James Hurley directs and Oliver Gooch conducts. Performance Dates: August 6, 8, & 12, 2026 Vache Baroque presents “Baroque Drinking Songs.” Performance Date: August 7, 2026 Soprano Lynsey Docherty {…}
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Clémentine Margaine, Constantin Trinks, Ian Bostridge, Lidia Fridman Headline Opéra de Lyon’s 2026-27 Season

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(Credit: Micheel Wats) The Opéra de Lyon has announced its 2026–2027 season. Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” will be conducted by Dmitry Matvienko in a new production directed by Laurent Pelly, with designs by Caroline Ginet. The cast includes Piotr Micinski, Lucie Roche, Damien Pass, Marc Mauillon, Gabrielle Philiponet, and Giulia Scopelliti. Performance Dates: Oct. 4–20, 2026 Lecocq’s “Madame {…}
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The Grange Festival Names New Chair to Board of Trustees

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The Grange Festival has announced the appointment of Malcolm Le May as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. Le May, who previously served as Deputy Chair and has been a long-standing Trustee of the Festival, succeeds Sir Richard Mantle, who announced last October that he would step down from the role in 2026. “I am delighted and honored to {…}

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