Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grange Park Opera founder Wasfi Kani, 69, pictured at home in London - Rii Schroer for The Telegraph Wasfi Kani has always been ...

Based on historical fact, Mazeppa was a regional leader who rose up against Tsar Peter the Great in the hope of freeing his country from Russian rule. Tchaikovsky adds in Mariya, Mazeppa's goddaughter ...

Grange Park Opera is becoming known not only for its innovative and often starry Summer productions, but also its commitment to keeping opera alive with free to view performances. This eye-poppingly ...

Grange Park Opera does have a continuing and, in the main, a highly successful tradition of bringing the French opera repertoire to life. It has gone with radical updatings before – from 2008, a ...

Grange Park Opera has opened its new season with a crowd-pleaser. Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly remains problematic, with its story of a Japanese teenage geisha, impregnated and cruelly abandoned ...

Eugene Onegin is such a psychologically driven affair that many directors feel compelled to explore the minds of the protagonists in complex and imaginative ways. The size of Grange Park’s opera house ...

Claire Rutter’s Amelia (pictured below), in particular, would be worth struggling through miles of Surrey Hills hedgerows and thickets to hear. Conducted by Gianluca Marciano, the English National ...