The best Country House Operas to catch this summer
The music spans several centuries but it's today's top voices heard in graceful surroundings that make the country house opera season so attractive
Zazà, Opera Holland Park
Performed worldwide after its premiere in 1900, Leoncavallo's spirited and moving opera makes a comeback
Read more ...La Clemenza di Tito, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Would you kill for the person you love? Would a true lover ask this of you? These are the dilemmas in Mozart's morally complex, musically delectable opera
Read more ...Hipermestra, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
The Italian composer Francesco Cavalli is the latest great rediscovery in the opera world
Read more ...Tosca, Grange Park Opera
Art, politics and love collide in Puccini's masterpiece, in which the menacing chief of police, Scarpia, pursues the opera singer of the title
Read more ...Semele, Garsington Opera
One of the most ravishing operas by Handel is given a new production with an all-star cast
Read more ...Le Nozze di Figaro, Garsington Opera
Where better to stage an opera that resolves in a garden at night than in a summer opera house surrounded by flowers?
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