Lockdown has meant more people than ever consuming opera through streams, broadcasts, and archive videos, often from leading houses. It has proved a mixed experience for many. The spectacle of opera, and its broad-brush gestures, can feel boxy on the small screen; so too can its emotional climaxes feel oddly overblown out of a theatrical context. There have been innovative {…}
Grange Park Opera, Surrey, is set to stream a production of “Owen Wingrave” starting on Dec. 9, 2020. The Britten opera was filmed at haunted houses throughout Surrey and London and will be part of the company’s interim season, which features 19 brand new events. The opera stars Ross Ramgobin as Owen with his aunt portrayed by Susan Bullock. Other {…}
Grange Park Opera has announced that it will be filming Benjamin Britten’s “Owen Wingrave,” with audiences able to view the work between September and December 2020. The opera will be filmed on location in haunted houses throughout Surrey and London. “The opera requires a dozen interiors, which are well-nigh impossible to achieve on a theatre stage. However, filmed on location, {…}
(Credit: Patrick Allen) Grange Park Opera, Surrey has announced its 2021 season, comprised of fan-favorite works, renowned artists, and more. The season will also see the world premiere of Anthony Bolton’s new work “The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko,” which was originally scheduled to premiere this year. Verdi’s “Falstaff” will open featuring Bryn Terfel, Natalya Romaniw, Janis Kelly, and {…}
(Credit: Richard Lewisohn) Grange Park Opera is set to perform “A Feast in the Time of Plague,” a brand new opera commissioned during the lockdown. The work, which is composed by Alex Woolf and features a libretto by David Pountney, will be presented on Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13, 2020 in front of an audience of 250 people at the {…}
Grange Park Opera has announced the official program for its 2020 “Found Season.” For this article, our focus will be on opera and vocal performances. Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn performed Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine.” Streaming Date: June 4, 2020 Bryn Terfel and Hannah Stone performed a recital from home. Streaming Date: June 6, 2020 Tenor Wynne Evans will {…}
(Image Sources: Aksanas Holt / Harlequin) Grange Park Opera, Surrey is set to launch a season of entirely new work which will be available online for free at the company’s official website. Starting on June 4 and through June 12, the company will showcase 15 performances available online featuring over 70 of the world’s leading singers and musicians. Among them {…}
Grange Park Opera has recently discovered a previously unperformed work by composer Sir John Tavener and is set to provide it with its world premiere in 2024. Tavener is one of the most acclaimed British composers of the post-war era and his final opera, “Krishna” has now been uncovered after 14 years in manuscript form. The company will undertake the {…}
COVID-19 is set to affect summer festivals this year. With the majority of companies having canceled the final portion of their 2019-20 season, most expectations were on summer festivals and artists returning to the stage. However, those hopes seem to be dwindling for some festivals. Today, March 17, 2020, the Grange Opera Park in the U.K. announced the festival was {…}
Grange Park Opera has announced that opera singer Wynne Evans has been appointed as a trustee. The Welsh artist, who is actually best known for his role as the spoof opera star Gio Compario in the Go Compare Insurance ads, will take on the role with immediate effect. Evans also has a daily show on BBC Radio Wales and has {…}
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 {…}