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The Grange Festival
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Longborough Festival Opera
If you want Wagner, head to the Cotswolds! (Well, head to Bayreuth too, of
course.) Longborough Festival Opera completes its third Ring cycle, directed by Amy Lane,
with an eagerly anticipated new production of Die Walküre. The festival has a devoted
following who have marvelled at its achievements, putting on world class Wagner at a
fraction of the Bayreuth budget. Cannily cast, conducted by the renowned Anthony Negus,
it should be a summer festival highlight. Needless to say, tickets have completely sold out.
(Pray for returns?) It’s not all Wagner though: the festival closes with a new production
of La bohème, as far from Fafner’s cave as operatically possible.
