Grange Park Opera
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About the Festival & its History
Founded in 1997, Grange Park Opera has quickly established itself as a jewel in the opera calendar. Each season the jewel is polished to shine more brightly.
A magnificent 300-page book with hundreds of illustrations will be published in autumn 2012. It gives both the history of the house and how the opera company came to be there.
Grange Park Opera is committed to presenting opera of the highest quality with international artists and to nurturing new talent. Introducing younger people to opera is central to the mission and there are special schemes that give free tickets to young people who cannot pay and subsidised tickets to under 35s.
With no Government support, the company, a registered charity, is funded by box office income, its donors and supporters.
The Grange Park Opera festival presents three new productions each year in a 550-seat opera house built within the historic conservatory. When the season at Grange Park closes the Festival at Nevill Holt in Leicestershire opens with a production given by the Nevill Holt Young Artists.
Pimlico Opera was founded in 1987 and presents opera in unusual places. For more than 20 years, the company has gone to prison. Click to know more.
Grange Park Opera and Pimlico Opera receive no public subsidy.