THE GRANGE FESTIVAL

5 JUNE – 12 JULY

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The Grange in Hampshire is a magical venue that since 2017 has been run by the opera singer Michael Chance CBE (pictured left). The building has had a

long and glamorous history. In 1795 it was leased to George, later Prince Regent and king, as a hunting lodge offering more than 400 deer in its park. In the nineteenth century the building was reworked in the Greek Revival style and in 1823 a substantial iron and glass greenhouse was added. This hot-house would eventually have its floor dug out to

become an unconventional opera house.

In 1998 Martha Fiennes used the decaying mansion as a location

in her film Onegin, starring her elder brother Ralph. In 2017 a new festival was created at The Grange by the celebrated English singer Michael Chance. Its first season (in June 2017) opened with operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Bizet, and Benjamin Britten. Their 2020 season is brimming with young love - from Puccini's tragic tale of urgent young lovers Manon Lescaut, and Rossini's fizzing

masterpiece La Cenerentola to Britten's most popular A Midsummer Night's Dream full of summer antics and fairy dust. And don't miss ballet superstar Edward Watson, who will premiere at Dance@TheGrange, with a piece created especially for him by in demand choreographer Mtuthuzeli November. thegrangefestival.co.uk

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Where to stay

The Woolpack Inn is two miles north

of The Grange Festival