Grange Park Opera

[1] With five tiers of seating in a horseshoe shape (modelled on La Scala, Milan[2]), the Theatre in the Woods is designed to target an optimum acoustic reverberation of 1.4 seconds.

[citation needed] Singers who have performed with Grange Park Opera include Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja, Claire Rutter, Rachel Nicholls, Bryan Register, Susan Gritton, Wynne Evans, Sally Matthews, Alfie Boe, Robert Poulton, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Sara Fulgoni, Clive Bayley and Alistair Miles.

[8] The 2021 season opened with productions of Giuseppe Verdi' Falstaff, La Bohème, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov (in its second, four-act version and presented as Ivan the Terrible), and the postponed premiere of Bolton's Litvinenko opera.

[12] In 2003, Grange Park Opera Hampshire season was extended to Nevill Holt, near Market Harborough in Leicestershire, where a 300-seat theatre was built in the stable courtyard.

[19][20][21][22] Planning permission for a five-storey opera house, modelled on La Scala by Tim Ronalds Architects, was granted in May 2016 and Phase 1 building work commenced immediately.

The company has staged both traditional and unexpected repertoire including: The 2024 Season will feature Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment, Janáček's Katya Kabanova, Bryn Terfel in a Double Bill of Rachmaninoff's Aleko and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and a new commission by Anthony Bolton, Island of Dreams based on The Tempest.