Grange Park Opera, Surrey 2020: classics, a musical and a world premiere

By Claudia Pritchard on 9/3/2020

Booking is open for one of London's favourite summer opera seasons. This year, Ponchielli, Puccini and a world premiere, plus a tune-packed musical

Picnic in the pretty gardens during the interval at Grange Park Opera

La Gioconda

An Italian opera known for its lilting Dance of the Hours is given a new production. Ponchielli's opera is set in Venice, where love and duty collide with dramatic results. A rare change to catch this famous grand opera opens the Grange Park Opera summer in style

WHEN

04 Jun 2020 – 12 Jul 2020, eight performances, with long dinner interval. Start times vary

WHERE

Grange Park Opera
West Horsley Place, West Horsley,, Leatherhead, KT24 6AW

Meet Me in St Louis

Meet Me in St Louis, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, The Trolley Song ... there was hit after hit for Judy Garland in the 1944 film which was first staged in 1989. In St Louis as it prepares to host the World's Fair, two sisters are hoping for love...

WHEN

Sat 6 June to Sat 4 July, six performances with long dinner interval

WHERE

Grange Park Opera,West Horsley Place, Epsom Rd, West Horsley, Leatherhead KT24 6AN

La Bohème

Puccini's ever-popular tragic opera features a fine cast, with Cody Austin as Rodolfo, Ailish Tynan as his new love Mimì, plus Gemma Summerfield (pictured), Gyula Nagy, Andrew Shore and others. Stephen Barlow conducts this revival of Stephen Medcalf's 2015 production. Youngsters fall in love in Paris, but illness and poverty blight their future...

WHEN

Thurs 18 June to Sat 11 July, seven performances with long dinner interval

WHERE

Grange Park Opera
West Horsley Place, West Horsley,, Leatherhead, KT24 6AW

The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko

The very public death by poisoning in 2006 of the former Russian secret service agent Alexander Litvinenko inspires a new opera premiered here.Composed by Anthony Bolton with libretto by Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the opera is a love story that ends in tragedy: Sasha (Adrian Dwyer, pictured) and Marina meet at a dance, but his political action cost him his life.

WHEN

16 Jul 2020 – 18 Jul 2020, two performances with long dinner interval: 16 July, 6PM, 18 July 5:30PM

WHERE

Grange Park Opera
West Horsley Place, West Horsley,, Leatherhead, KT24 6AW