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Youth Opera Premiere 2020
We are delighted to be co-commissioning, with Opera North, a new opera to be performed by our Youth Opera Company in July 2020. 

This new work, based on Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant,...more.
Youth and Adult Companies perform at Wormsley
Last Friday 2 August the Garsington Opera Youth and Adult Companies took to the stage at Wormsley to present two new works: A Fool's Paradise and The Happy Princess. 

The 76-strong ...more.
2019 Awards: winners announced
On Sunday evening we presented this year's Young Artist Awards on the Garsington stage at the final opera performance of the 2019 Season. 

The Leonard Ingrams Awards and the Helen...more.
600 school children see Fantasio
On Wednesday 10 July, young people from ten Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary and secondary schools visited Garsginton Opera to see a full production of Fantasio. 

Part...more.
Let's GO! Last minute tickets for under 35s
We are delighted to announce Let's GO!, a new last-minute ticket offer scheme for under 35s. 

Occasionally we experience last-minute returns during the opera season and sometimes we...more.
The Turn of the Screw
2019 Season Reviews
Vespers of 1610

★★★★ "The overall beauty of the orchestra's sound is outstanding." Sam Smith, Music OMH, 29 July 2019

★★★★★  "A thrilling, operatic take on this spectacular...more.
Falstaff nominated for Sky Arts Award
Garsington Opera's Falstaff has been nominated for a Sky Arts Award.

The 2018 production, directed by Bruno Ravella, has been nominated in the Opera category in the highly coveted...more.
2020 Season Announced

Garsington Opera is delighted to announce the 2020 Season programme – Verdi’s Un giorno di regno, Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto, Dvořák’s Rusalka and a revival of John Cox’s legendary...more.
Youth Opera Company
City Guildhall Youth Opera
Garsington Opera is working in partnership with The Lord Mayor’s Appeal on an opera project with 250 young people aged from 11 to 18 from six London schools.

Led by a professional...more.
Garsington Youth Opera Premiere

This August Garsington Opera's Youth Company will perform in the world premiere of The Happy Princess, a new commission written specially for the Company by composer Paul Fincham, with a...more.

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