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Garsington Opera runs for a month in the summer in the idyllic setting of |
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Garsington Opera runs for a month in the summer in the idyllic setting of Garsington Manor, made famous in the Bloomsbury era. The combination of music, gardens and the unusual repertoire has established it as a much loved event in the English music calendar.
The season will open with Vivaldi's L'incoronazione di Dario. While Vivaldi is principally known for the Four Seasons and his violin concertos, his rich operatic works are seldom heard. This will mark the first ever performance in Britain of this work.
Cosi fan tutte, Mozart’s glorious exploration of the nature of young love, returns in a revival of one of Garsington Opera's most celebrated productions.
Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, unarguably one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century, completes the season.
The operas are performed on the terrace adjoining the Manor. The enclosed purpose-built auditorium benefits from an exceptional natural acoustic with excellent sight lines and there is a long interval when you can picnic in the gardens or have dinner in the restaurant.
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Garsington Manor adapts wonderfully well to operatic performance. The terrace and loggia attached to the house are transformed into a broad stage, while the purpose built auditorium seating 500 people, is sheltered under a light canopy and overlooks the flower garden. It is a very intimate setting with a naturally fine acoustic. Please click on the titles below for more information,
The aim
Through our expanding education programme we endeavour to inspire and interest young people from local secondary schools in the medium of opera. Our aim is to enrich and broaden the appreciation and understanding of opera for young people in Oxfordshire by providing a unique creative experience for those involved and to break down preconceived ideas about opera, prior to students attending the final dress rehearsal of the opera they have been working on so intensively.
Education workshops
Garsington Opera offers workshops to secondary schools in the state maintained sector based on each of its productions.
The workshops, led by an animateur and a director (Dominic Harlan and Karen Gillingham) supported by three principal understudies, run for two consecutive days and involve about thirty pupils from each school. Each school produces a mini-production, which is an ingenious blend of music adapted from the opera and composition devised by the pupils themselves. The climax of the programme is the plenary day at which each school presents their performance.
As well as developing vocal skills, they learn to use movement and characterisation to great dramatic effect. They have great fun working with adults outside the teaching profession and quickly learn much more about opera and the people involved. They are highly responsive to the creative starting points provided by the leaders and entranced by the professional singers. The leaders are exceptionally skilled and know just how to pitch the work to get the best out of the pupils. The resulting confidence and self-esteem is all too evident.
As a result of their work, the pupils come to see a performance at Garsington with a greater awareness of the wider context in which opera is created and performed. They are armed for the experience, with a knowledge of the music and a feel for the characters. As a rule, the pupils are aged between 12 and 16. Many national curriculum criteria are covered in the course of the workshops, especially:
History of Garsington Opera Print
The opera company was founded in 1989 by the late Leonard Ingrams and his wife Rosalind. Leonard was an accomplished musician and his growing love of opera was given an unexpected chance to develop when they bought Garsington Manor in 1982 and discovered a natural stage on the terrace and in the garden.
From the very early days, Garsington Opera began to explore the neglected works of first-class composers such as Haydn, Rossini, Richard Strauss and latterly of Russian and Czech composers and a number of British premieres have taken place. This detailed and continuous development of repertoire has awakened critical interest and established a reputation that has grown not only nationally but internationally.
Garsington Opera promotes young British talent by providing a platform for those just beginning to make their name on the world-wide opera stage and a number of notable UK debuts have taken place. The resident orchestra, The Garsington Opera Orchestra, is made up of talented musicians many of whom have careers as soloists and have their own chamber ensembles.
The manor
Garsington Manor was built by William Wickham in the seventeenth century. It remained unaltered until 1915 when it was acquired by Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell. In 1927, the house was bought by Dr Heaton, who later sold it to Sir John and Lady Wheeler Bennett. Leonard and Rosalind Ingrams acquired it in 1982.
It was the Morrells who, with the help of architect Philip Tilden, created the Italian garden and designed the loggia and terrace. The design of the three distinct gardens within the grounds was greatly influenced by the couple’s travels in Italy.
The gardens
The first garden is the parterre, now divided into twenty-four square beds marked at each corner by a slim Irish yew, with paths. The second is the Italian garden – an ornamental lake with statues set against yew hedges. A second row of yew hedges creates a secret passage through which windows are cut. These give fine views across the Oxfordshire countryside. The third is the wild garden which includes a pond fed by water from a spring, with an island at its centre.
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