Garsington Opera

Garsington Opera Garsington Opera stages a summer festival each year in the romantic countryside setting of the Wormsley
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Recipe of the Month: Nettle Pesto 🌿The bright green tips of young nettles are best picked between February and April, re...
25/04/2025

Recipe of the Month: Nettle Pesto 🌿

The bright green tips of young nettles are best picked between February and April, remember to take sturdy gloves with you to the woods! This verdant green pesto style sauce is delicious through pasta, on top of soup or spread on to hot toast.

Recipe: https://garsingtonopera.org/recipe-of-the-month/

Give it a try and tag us in your final dishes 🧑‍🍳

24/04/2025

April showers bring May flowers 💐

'Epais nuages' - Rameau's Platée 2024

Garsington Opera Chorus
The English Concert

Conductor - Paul Agnew
Director - Louisa Muller

Eager to experience behind the scenes? We are offering Production Arts opportunities, this July, centred around our yout...
22/04/2025

Eager to experience behind the scenes?

We are offering Production Arts opportunities, this July, centred around our youth opera Uprooted in the following areas:
🎭 Stage Management
💡 Lighting
⛲️ Sets, Props & Costumes

This is an opportunity for young people in school and college from Year 9 upwards and we welcome applications from young people who are interested in one or more areas listed.
All places are fully-funded.

Find out more: https://garsingtonopera.org/youth-company-production-arts/

⏳ Deadline for applications: Monday 5 May

A spring weekend of song 🎶🌷Robert Murray, who will be performing the role of Florestan in our production of Fidelio this...
21/04/2025

A spring weekend of song 🎶🌷

Robert Murray, who will be performing the role of Florestan in our production of Fidelio this summer, joins pianist Sholto Kynoch at Oxford Song for Schumann's masterful 1840 cycle, Dichterliebe: sixteen songs to poems by Heine that form one of the best-known and most beloved works of the song repertoire.

🗓️Date: Sunday 27 April
🕰️Time: 5 - 6.20pm
📍Location: The Levine Building, Trinity College

Tickets are available here: https://oxfordsong.org/events/dichterliebe-robert-murray-sholto-kynoch

🦓 Robert Murray as Mitridate in our 2023 production of Mitridate re di ponto. 📷 Craig Fuller

Going wild or winding down? 🦩Whatever the bank holiday has in store for you, why not make some time to watch our 2024 pr...
18/04/2025

Going wild or winding down? 🦩

Whatever the bank holiday has in store for you, why not make some time to watch our 2024 production of Platée on OperaVision 🏖️

Platée is available to watch on OperaVision until Thursday 15 May 🎭

17/04/2025

Oh to be walking through the sunny streets of Seville ☀️ 🏘️

The Count Almaviva serenades Rosina from underneath her balcony, but will she hear and will she return the Counts love? 💛

'Ecco ridente in cielo' - Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, 2023

Count Almaviva - Andrew Stenson

Conductor - Douglas Boyd
Director - Christopher Luscombe

The English Concert
Garsington Opera Chorus

15/04/2025

A troublesome trio 🎶

‘Cherchons á railler en tous lieux’ - Rameau’s Platée 2024

Thespis & Mercury - Robert Murray�
Momus - Jonathan McGovern�
Thalie - Holly Brown

Garsington Opera Chorus�
The English Concert

Conductor - Paul Agnew�
Director - Louisa Muller

A tale of forbidden love and mistaken identities 🍝👰Un giorno di regno is now streaming on OperaVision! Spend the perfect...
11/04/2025

A tale of forbidden love and mistaken identities 🍝👰

Un giorno di regno is now streaming on OperaVision! Spend the perfect Friday evening watching this comedic opera revolving around a man becoming 'King for a Day' 👑

Our production of Verdi's Un giorno di regno, filmed live during the 2024 Season, will be available to view for free for 6 months on OperaVision 🎭

Conductor - Chris Hopkins
Director - Christopher Alden
Set Designer - Charles Edwards
Costume Designer - Sue Willmington
Lighting Designer - Ben Pickersgill
Video Design - Illuminos
Choreographer - Tim Claydon

Philharmonia Orchestra

08/04/2025

Rehearsals for this year’s season have begun! 🎉

We are so excited to welcome everyone to Garsington Studios for the first week of rehearsals.

One week until Un giorno di regno is on OperaVision 👑From Friday 11 April at 6pm (UK time), our production of Verdi's Un...
04/04/2025

One week until Un giorno di regno is on OperaVision 👑

From Friday 11 April at 6pm (UK time), our production of Verdi's Un giorno di regno, filmed live during the 2024 Season, will be available to view for free for 6 months on OperaVision.

Conductor - Chris Hopkins
Director - Christopher Alden

Philharmonia Orchestra

📸 Julian Guidera

03/04/2025

The ultimate wedding crasher 👰‍♂️

Platée is placed in the middle of a heartless plot, devised by the gods to cure Juno of her obsessive jealousy of Jupiter's romantic attachments ❤️

Jupiter pretends to fall in love with Platée, only to abandon her once Juno arrives, proving Juno has no reason to be jealous.

Watch Platée on OperaVision now.

'Pour célélebrer un noeud di legitime' - Rameau, Platée 2024

Jupiter - Ossain Huskinson
Juno - Annabel Kennedy

Garsington Opera Chorus

The English Concert

Conductor - Paul Agnew
Director - Louisa Muller

Get ready to grab your tickets 🎟️Public booking for our 2025 Season opens tomorrow at 10am! What will you be seeing? Fin...
31/03/2025

Get ready to grab your tickets 🎟️

Public booking for our 2025 Season opens tomorrow at 10am! What will you be seeing?

Find out more about what our 2025 Season has to offer on our website: https://garsingtonopera.org/festival/

❗️Set yourself a reminder, the clocks go forward tonight! ⏰Don't forget to put your clocks forward one hour before going...
29/03/2025

❗️Set yourself a reminder, the clocks go forward tonight! ⏰

Don't forget to put your clocks forward one hour before going to bed this evening.

📸 Joshua Hopkins as Il Cavaliere di Belfiore in Un giorno di regno 📷 Julian Guidera

Warm summer evenings, delicious food and exceptional opera. ☀️🎭Sound enticing? Public booking opens in less than a week ...
27/03/2025

Warm summer evenings, delicious food and exceptional opera. ☀️🎭

Sound enticing? Public booking opens in less than a week on Tuesday 1 April at 10am.

Don't miss out on the chance to experience our exciting 2025 Season including Donizetti's effervescent L'elisir d'amore and Tchaikovsky's intensely dramatic The Queen of Spades, an iconic revival of Beethoven's Fidelio, and a powerful imagining of Handel's Rodelinda.

For more information, head over to our website, link in bio.

🥁 We're excited to announce Un giorno di regno is coming to OperaVision! 🥁A thwarted love with mistaken and assumed iden...
25/03/2025

🥁 We're excited to announce Un giorno di regno is coming to OperaVision! 🥁

A thwarted love with mistaken and assumed identities, this comedy revolves around an ordinary man becoming 'King for a Day'. 👑 💍

From Friday 11 April at 7pm UK time our production of Verdi's Un giorno di regno, filmed live during the 2024 Season, will be available to view in full for free for 6 months on OperaVision.

Conductor - Chris Hopkins
Director - Christopher Alden

Philharmonia Orchestra

📸 Julian Guidera

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