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Exclusive: ENO orchestra to play countryhouse opera

Exclusive: ENO orchestra to play countryhouse opera

We hear that the orchestra of English National Opera has been engaged to play Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera next summer.

It will be conducted by ENO’s former music director, Martyn Brabbins, who resigned over ACE-driven cuts. The director is Sir David Pountney, ENO’s formative powerhouse artistic director.

This is a massive coup for Wasfi Kani at Grange Park and a finger in the eye for the funding authorities who have reduced English National Opera to a twin-city shuttling shambles. While the ACE fumbles, countryhouse opera is flourishing.

pictured: GrangePark’s opera house

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