Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera is a professional opera company whose base is West Horsley Place in Surrey, England. Operating since 1998, the company founded by Wasfi Kani, OBE and Michael Moody has staged an annual opera festival at an award-winning theatre seating 550 people at The Grange, in Hampshire. In 2017, the company moved to a purpose built ‘Theatre in the Woods’ at West Horsley Place – the 350 acre estate inherited by author and broadcaster Bamber Gascoigne in 2014. A 99-year lease from the Mary Roxburghe Trust, into which Bamber Gascoigne placed his inheritance, has been agreed.

With four tiers of seating in a horseshoe shape (modelled on La Scala, Milan), the Theatre in the Woods is designed to target an optimum acoustic reverberation of 1.4 seconds.

Singers who have performed with the company include Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja, Claire Rutter, Rachel Nicholls, Bryan Register, Susan Gritton, Wynne Evans, Sally Matthews, Alfie Boe, Robert Poulton, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Sara Fulgoni, Clive Bayley and Alistair Miles. In recent years, the festival has also included well known musicals with productions of Fiddler on the Roof in 2015 and Oliver! in 2016. Fiddler on the Roof was subsequently staged in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 2015 BBC Proms.

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