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Venue: The Grange, Alresford

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AddressNorthington
Alresford
South-East
SO24 9TG
United Kingdom
Google maps51° 7' 22.318" N 1° 11' 52.657" W
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AlresfordLa bohèmeNew production

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Puccini: La bohème
Richard Farnes; David Geselson; The Grange Festival; Lisa Navarro; Benjamin Moreau; Jérémie Papin; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

AlresfordEugene OneginNew production

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Max Webster; The Grange Festival; Frankie Bradshaw; Jack Knowles; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

AlresfordBallet Black

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Mthuthuzeli November; Hope Boykin; Ballet Black
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Compelling Ruzan Mantashyan makes the Grange’s Onegin unmissable

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith
The Armenian soprano makes her Grange Festival debut – a casting coup that proves the single most compelling reason to see Max Webster’s new production.
****1
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Comic overkill stunts Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Grange Festival

Tim Mead (Giulio Cesare) and Hugh Cutting (Tolomeo) © Richard Hubert Smith
Despite excellent vocal performances, David Alden’s production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto aims at irreverence but overplays the comedy.
***11
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Die Fledermaus at The Grange: Cabaret meets G&S

Myra Dubois (Frosch, centre stage) © Richard Hubert Smith
A fine singing cast gives creditable performances in Johann Stauss II's most famous operetta, but Paul Curran's updating of Act 2 to 1930s Berlin takes the fizz out of the Champagne.
***11
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The Rake's Progress at The Grange: richly entertaining

Alexandra Oomens (Anne Trulove) and Adam Temple-Smith (Tom Rakewell) © Craig Fuller
Singing performances are excellent, the staging is well crafted and Stravinsky's eclectic score entertains from start to finish. But it's an evening's opera that doesn't touch the soul.
****1
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L’incoronazione di Poppea vividly brought to life at the Grange

Kitty Whately (Poppea) and Sam Furness (Nerone) © Craig Fuller
Terrific music making with a light directorial touch brings mixed results to Monteverdi's 1643 masterpiece. 
***11
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Obsession at The Grange: The Queen of Spades

Eduard Martynyuk (Herman) and Anush Hovhannisyan (Liza) © Craig Fuller
In a setting that might be The Grange itself, a production which steadily tightens its grip until a blistering finish.
*****
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A stylish Così fan tutte at The Grange Festival

Samantha Clarke, Nicholas Lester (Guglielmo), Kitty Whately and Alessandro Fisher (Ferrando) © Craig Fuller

Entertainment ideal for country house opera-goers, enhanced by some fine singing and excellent playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

****1
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Tension accumulates in Handel’s Tamerlano at The Grange Festival

Some exceptional singing intermittently enlivens Daniel Slater's production which, dramatically and emotionally, takes time to ignite.   
***11
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