Day: 10 July 2025
Garsington Opera’s 2026 season announced
The operas for Garsington Opera’s 2026 Festival, which will run from Wednesday 27 May – Saturday 25 July 2026: Verdi’s La traviata, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse, and Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest. La traviataGiuseppe Verdi Conductor – Douglas BoydDirector – Louisa Muller Der RosenkavalierRichard Strauss Conductor – Finnegan Downie DearDirector – Bruno Ravella Il ritorno d’UlisseClaudio Monteverdi Conductor – Laurence CummingsDirector –…
Gorgeously sung, clean and stylised Rodelinda
Garsington Opera **** This is a superbly sung Handel, the drama full of fire, with the complicated baroque story given a clean and stylised theatrical telling. Rodelinda may be a tangled tapestry of dynastic plots, romantic fidelity, and moral reckonings, but at Garsington this summer, the ensemble of exquisite voices cut through the intrigue with…