Garsington Opera

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Opera 

Six popular singers perform on the stage of Garsington Opera with an orchestra conducted by Douglas Boyd, as live music returns to country house opera

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Talks 

Sit in on a discussion about music, art and literature as they combine in opera, with images from the great collections

Tried and Tested

Opera 

Spellbinding production of Benjamin Britten's opera is sung and staged to perfection

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Opera 

On the eve of a royal wedding, a stranger tries to lighten the sombre mood of the princess bride, in Offenbach's tender opera, being given its first UK staging

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Opera 

Lover, nobleman, scoundrel, liar, cheat... They all roll into one in the character of Don Giovanni, but morality will win the day in a new production by Michael Boyd

Tried and Tested

Opera 

Young lovers thwart the commercial ambitions of greedy parents when they attempt to put their daughter on the market, in Smetana's lively opera

In the Know

Opera 

The lustrous soprano Natalya Romaniw on playing 'I Spy' in Ukrainian, the great opera heroines, and corsets

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Opera 

Book now for Smetana, Mozart, Offenbach and Britten, in a season of romance, drama and comedy

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Opera 

The soprano on composer Barbara Strozzi, keeping fit on stage, and her fantasy opera roles

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Opera 

Laughter, suspense and great story-telling from Smetana, Mozart, Offenbach and Britten in four new productions

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Opera 

World premiere of a tale of love, jealousy and murder – with real skating!

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Opera 

A poet and composer compete for supremacy, until they collaborate and produce an opera

Essential

Opera 

In an idyllic setting a short ride out of London, Garsington Opera presents Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss – and an opera on ice!

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Opera 

The rumbustious Falstaff of Shakespeare's history plays becomes a comic – and tragic – character in his own right in Verdi's opera

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Opera 

Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions

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Opera 

An overbearing mother, a birdcatcher in search of a mate and a pair of young lovers sing their way through trials and tribulations

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Classical Music 

Mozart, Verdi and Richard Strauss are in light-hearted mood at the country opera house that resembles a castle in the air

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Opera 

Prosecco all round! Opera doesn't come bubblier than this

Tried and Tested

Opera 

A favourite production of a favourite opera puts Mozart centre stage at Garsington Opera

In The Know

Summer is only a few beats away: enjoy open air music of the highest quality as Garsington Opera booking opens

Features

Glorious Mozart and stirring Verdi are served with smoked salmon and a big helping of ingenuity when the evenings lighten and the opera scene heads for the great outdoors

Preview

Opera 

One of the most ravishing operas by Handel is given a new production with an all-star cast