25^th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS INCLUDE BRITISH PREMIERE

AND FIRST CONCERT ON STAGE  AT WORMSLEY

Public booking opens on 14 April for Garsington Opera’s 25^th anniversary season.  The British premiere of Offenbach’s sparkling comedy Vert-Vert, Janá?ek’s 20^th century masterpiece The Cunning Little Vixen and a revival of Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio will be presented.  The season at Wormsley, sponsored by JLT, runs from 6 June to 13 July and includes the first ever concert given by Garsington Opera Orchestra at the Opera Pavilion on Sunday 6 July.  This is the culmination of a weekend commemorating the First World War with a celebrity recital by Steven Isserlis and masterclass with Ann Murray, tours of the world-famous Getty Library and a symposium with James Naughtie entitled  Peace in our Time?  For the first time, there will be a performance specially designated for schools as part of Garsington Opera’s OperaFirst education programme. For the third year running an opera performance will be relayed to the beach at Skegness as part of the SO Festival.

Public booking opens 14 April www.garsingtonopera.org or 01865 361636

THE EVENING AT GARSINGTON OPERA, WORMSLEY

Performances take place in the spectacular Opera Pavilion, which sits within the rolling landscape of the Chiltern Hills, less than an hour from London and 25 minutes by train to the nearest station at High Wycombe. Performances start in the early evening with a long dinner interval when patrons can dine in the elegant restaurant marquees overlooking the famous cricket ground or enjoy a picnic by the lake or in the garden. Performances resume as the evening light begins to fade and end by 10.15pm, when candles and the moon’s reflection in the lake provide a magical finale to an evening at Garsington Opera.