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 {…}
The Grange Festival has announced an additional performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” on June 30, responding to exceptional demand during its member pre-sale and first day of public booking. Opening day sales for the 2026 season surpassed all previous records, registering 43 percent above the prior year’s figures, which had themselves set a benchmark. The new “Eugene Onegin” production is {…}
The Grange Festival has announced its 2025 season. First up is “La Traviata” in a production by Maxine Braham and conducted by Richard Farnes in his festival debut. Samantha Clarke stars as Violetta while Nico Darmian and Dario Solari star as Alfredo and Giorgio Germont, respectively. Performance Dates: June 4 – July 6, 2025 Edwin Outwater leads the BBC Concert Orchestra {…}
This week, the Grange Festival opens its 2024 summer season with Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.” The production will feature several established singers as well as rising stars. Among them is Christopher Lowrey, who will perform the role of Ottone in his Grange Festival debut. Over the years the countertenor has performed with several important companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal {…}
The Grange Festival has announced its 2023 season which is set to include four new productions. The season opens with Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” The production is set to star Samantha Clarke, Kitty Whately, Nicholas Lester, Alessandro Fisher, Carolina Lippo, and Christian Senn. Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits, Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, makes his Festival debut in this new {…}
(Credit: Annelies van der Vegt) On June 9, the Grange Festival in Hampshire will open its fifth annual season. The festival will present three operatic masterpieces including “Macbeth,” “Tamerlano” and “The Yeoman of the Guard” as well as a Jazz and a Dance program. The festival, which was founded in 2016 by Michael Chance, Rachel Pearson, and Michael Moody, opened {…}
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 {…}
The Grange Festival International Singing Competition is set to return in Autumn 2019 for its second edition. The second edition is set to be open to singers of any nationality up to 32-years-old and the repertoire for the 2019 Competition must be from music composed before 1830. Contestants will performance alongside The Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Peter Robinson. {…}
The Grange Festival’s 2019 season was recently announced, revealing that the event will showcase three new opera productions. Richard Egarr conducts Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” in a new production by Martin Lloyd-Evans. Toby Girling stars as the Count, while Simona Mihai is set to portray the Countess. Ellie Laugharne will sing Susanna, while Roberto Lorenzi will take on the {…}
