| Biography | Grange Park Opera is a professional opera company whose base is The Grange in Northington, Hampshire, England. The company was founded in 1998 by Wasfi Kani, OBE and Michael Moody. It stages an annual opera festival in the months of June and July in an award-winning theatre seating 550 people, contained within a Greek revival temple.
The repertory has a focus on large-scale romantic opera and Wagner. However, rare operas are also regularly performed, as well as musicals. The English Chamber Orchestra is the resident orchestra. Notable singers who have performed with the company include Bryn Terfel, Claire Rutter, Susan Gritton, Wynne Evans, Philip Langridge, Andrew Kennedy, Roddy Williams, Colin Lee, Sally Matthews, Emma Bell, Alfie Boe, Robert Poulton, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts and Anne Sophie Duprels. The festival has included non-operatic events including Mara Galeazzi with dancers from the Royal Ballet, an evening with Ray Davies, London Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Boyz, Harry the Piano, Kit & the Widow, Boy Blue, Henry Armburg Jennings Big Band, and the orchestra of Welsh National Opera in a concert performance of The Flying Dutchman.
A sister company, Pimlico Opera, works in prisons and with younger artists. (July 2015) |