The Magic Flute; English music festival; Wigmore gala concert – review

Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Bucks; Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxon; Wigmore Hall, London W1As the sun sank behind the Chilterns and a gnat-filled twilight gathered, an elegantly exploded pavilion set in a deer park underwent a miraculous transformation to become Britain's newest opera house: Garsington Opera, launched in Oxfordshire in 1989 but obliged to move following the death of its founder, Leonard Ingrams, has a new home on the Getty estate at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire. A fanfare commissioned...

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