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Welcome to The Grange Festival: a celebration of opera, dance, and music in a stunning neo-classical mansion, nestled in Hampshire's rolling hills.

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📣 Announcing our 2027 Festival, our tenth anniversary and Brindley Sherratt's first as Artistic Director.

Join us for:
🎭 Mozart’s thrilling tale of seduction and retribution, Don Giovanni, in a new production by Antony McDonald

🥀 Puccini’s searing drama of love and tyranny, Tosca, conducted by Richard Farnes

🎶 Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, with Cape Town Opera, Enrique Mazzola and the Chineke! Orchestra

⚓ The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor, a gripping chamber opera after Britten

🕯️ Verdi’s Requiem, returning ten years after our very first Festival

💃 Bern Ballett: Carmen / Unheld, in their Festival debut

🎬 David Arnold conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Symphonic Bond

🎷 Joe Stilgoe and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in A Jazz Club Symphony

With over 7,000 tickets under £100, and full-price tickets from £12, we want to welcome everyone to our one-of-a-kind Festival. Our incredibly successful Under 36 Ticket Scheme returns helping the next generation of arts lovers enjoy the Festival at a significant discount.

23 May – 11 July 2027. Tickets on sale 9 February 2027, or become a Member for priority access. Learn more via the link in our bio.

A warm welcome to our 2027 artists:

Don Giovanni: BenjaminBayl AntonyMcDonald MatthewRichardson LucyBurge DeanMurphy MirjamMesak @dafyddjonestenor Chanhee Cho @rebecca_ann_leggett

Tosca: RichardFarnes @luscombechris SimonHiglett @markjonathan2156 @federica_vitali_soprano @mykhailo_malafii @bondbaritone - Image by Craig Fuller

The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor: @tedddrh BetrandCouderc @sonoko_kamimura @pimveulings @dom.sedgwick TobySpence @hugobradyy @thomas_chenhall @benedict.kearns @richard__gowers GeorgeBarton SiwanRhys - Image by Jean-Louis Fernandez - Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025

Porgy and Bess | @capetownopera @chinekeorchestra- Image by Vincent Callot

Verdi's Requiem - Image by James Musslewhite

Symphonic Bond: DavidArnold LauraTebbutt

A Jazz Club Symphony: @thejoestilgoe - Image by Steve Gregson

Bern Ballett – Carmen/Unheld: @buehnenbern - Image by Gregory Batardon

William Vann @bsorchestra

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Some rather big news from me. I'm thrilled to be taking on the role of Artistic Director at The Grange Festival Opera. I'll still be singing, of course, and I'm looking forward to working with some marvellous people, from the brilliant creative and administrative teams to the incredible line-up of artists who appear each year at this wonderful festival. Thank you all for your kind messages already, and I can't wait to share what we have planned. by @thegrangefestival

The Grange Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of @brindleysherratt as its new Artistic Director, taking up the position this month. He succeeds Michael Chance, who led the company since its formation in 2016 and retired at the end of the 2026 Festival.

British bass Brindley Sherratt is one of the world’s most respected singers and theatre practitioners, described by the Financial Times and The Observer as “world-class”. Revered for his extraordinary vocal ability and stage presence in roles across the operatic canon, from Mozart’s Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte to Britten’s Claggart in Billy Budd, to Strauss’ Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier to Wagner’s Gurnemanz in Parsifal.

Brindley brings a wealth of experience as an actor, singer and opera practitioner to his new role at The Grange Festival and will continue to perform internationally alongside his position as Artistic Director, while naturally being more selective with his engagements to ensure that he can fulfil each of his commitments. On 1 October, he takes on the role of Gurnemanz with Royal Ballet & Opera in a new production of Parsifal directed by Evgeny Titov.

Board Chair Malcolm Le May and the Board of Trustees have appointed four new Trustees: Karen Napier MBE, Edward Humphrey, Cathy Millis and Andrew Wickham.

Following three festivals as Chief Executive, Tyler Stoops has made the decision to step down at the end of October.

Under his leadership, The Grange Festival has achieved critical artistic acclaim and significant audience growth and record membership, a broadening of the artistic programme, and the Festival debuts of world-class artists.

You can view the full press release via the link in our bio.

Full details of the 2027 Festival and its 10th Anniversary celebrations will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Brindley Sherratt. Photo by Film and Star. by @thegrangefestival

A private evening at Avington Estate, one of Hampshire's great hidden treasures: a Grade I listed house tucked into the Itchen Valley, with a story reaching from Winchester Cathedral to the Crown.

Join us on Thursday 17 September from 6pm for a private, Members-only tour, beginning with a drink before we explore the house and its history together.
Tickets are £25 and include welcome drinks. Spaces are limited.

Not a Member yet? Join now for priority booking on events like this one — find out more via the link in our bio.

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Ten days until our Member Tours of The Grange, with only a handful of places remaining.

Join Michael Moody, the man behind the building of our beautiful theatre, for a members-only walking tour through four centuries of The Grange. He’ll take you backstage, into the production and artist areas, and through the historic house, with stories of the architects who shaped it, finishing with an informal drinks reception.

Tickets are £25 and include a drink. More via the link in our bio.

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Join us this September and October for exciting events for Members and Patrons happening in Hampshire and London.

Join our Backstage tours of The Grange, private tours of Avington Estate and The National Gallery, or one of two Festival preview evenings complete with music performances. Or come to all of them! Though tickets are limited. Learn more about the events through the link in our bio.

Event booking is open to Patrons now, with Members booking opening Monday 17 August at 10am.

Memberships start from just £75, and also provides you with priority ticket booking for the Festival and other events through the year. We’re doing more than ever before to help you get the most of of Membership. So we hope you’ll considering joining our wonderful community, and we look forward to seeing you at one of these special events.

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Our incredible 2026 Festival has drawn to a close, and we want to say a huge thank you to our audiences. We hope you enjoyed every moment of your visits this season.

We broke attendance records, reached incredible artistic highs, sold out 12 of our 27 performances, and continued to stretch the boundaries of our programming and ambition.

Our 2026-27 membership year begins on 1 August, and we have a host of incredible events to share with our members and patrons, in addition to an incredible 10th Anniversary Festival line up which we will announce in due course.

Membership, and production and role sponsorship, are ways that you can help secure the future of the Festival, so if you’d like to be part of our growing community please considering joining. More information is linked in our bio.

Thank you for being part of an unparallelled 2026 Festival and we hope to see you at one of our events soon.

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Our incredible 2026 Festival comes to a close with one more performance of our 5-star, sold-out Eugene Onegin.

Did you join us this year? We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all our audiences, and of course the entire company for their hard work, talent, and dedication this has been a truly magnificent season.

Be sure to sign up to our mailing list through the link in our bio to get updates about our 10 year anniversary festival happening in 2027.

Toi toi toi to our magnificent Eugene Onegin company: @maxedenwebster, @frankiesnaps, @knightknowles, @arthurpita. @ruzanmantashyan, @vladislavchizhov, @chungyac, @ryanvaughandavies, @dianamontaguerendall, @catherinewynrogers, @mark_bayev_bass, #TobySpence, @lidiyaconductor, @bsorchestra, @_bella.chandler, @nathanrgoodman, matthew,potulski, kingstontaylor22,@shakieraward, @daisywest____, @rachelwisemovement
and everyone involved for their final show.

📸 by @richard_h_smith

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Our beautiful production of La Bohème, the Festival's best-selling show to date, takes its final bow this evening.

It has been such a joy to see eight nights of incredible performances unfold from this world-class cast and company. And if you've been lucky enough to catch it this summer, thank you for being part of this special performance. The joy of bringing together artists and audiences is the reason we do the work we do.

Thank you and bravo to @isabeladiazsoprano, @luke_narwhall1, @dandsouza1, @patrickdowofficial, @jamiewoollardbass, @rhianlois, @williamdazeley, @bsorchestra and everyone involved.

Photography by @richard_h_smith

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A huge congratulations to Ballet Black and M22 Collective on their incredibly well-received Festival performances.

@originalballetblack lit up our stage for two evenings of dance with work from two remarkable choreographers: @hbdance’s All Towards Hope, @mthuthuzeli_november’s Olivier-winning Ingoma, and Spirit Dances from his company @m22_collective.

Thank you to @cassapancho and every one of these extraordinary dancers.

Photography by @connorapps

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Great honour to be part of this life changing world of dance.
Thank you. by @thegrangefestival