The Nevill Holt Pageant in Leicestershire will placed on its tenth season this summer season. Audiences have grown at a charge of 15% a 12 months. This 12 months they’ll stage a double invoice of Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi in Could-June adopted by and Rossini’s La Cenerentola in June-July.
Not a penny from the Arts Council. No dialogue both.
Grage Park Opera in Surrey has rolled out its summer season plans:
Tristan & Isolde Wagner 8 June – 9 July 2023
Tosca Puccini 10 June – 5 July 2023
Werther Massenet 17 June – 12 July 2023
Utterly with out public funding.
The Grange Pageant in West Horsley has Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice’ and Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ together with Cosi fan tutte and Queen of Spades.
Longborough in Gloucestershire has Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Purcell’s Faerie Queen and Monteverdi’s L’orfeo.
There’s additionally a full summer season at unsubsidised Glyndebourne.
Advert thw ACE has the temerity to say that opera is ‘not a development market’.
What planet do they inhabit?
