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One venue well worth seeking out in early August is Stowe Opera, which harnesses strong, well thought-out, attractively set, relatively traditional stagings with effective orchestral playing to deliver at the Roxburgh Theatre, located adjacent to the National Trust's historic Capability Brown-designed Stowe Landscape Gardens near Buckingham, a series of highly atmospheric, and at best gripping, productions.

Rebecca Mosley-Morgan as Leonora and Charles Johnston as Il Conte di Luna in the 2000 Stowe Opera production of Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'. Photo (c) Pierre Chan

This year Stowe followed up an impressive Lucia di Lammermoor and Eugene Onegin, both of which featured the characterful young bass Robert Poulton (seen as Onegin, alongside Jeffrey Lloyd-Robert's Lensky, at Grange Park Opera near Winchester this summer), with Verdi's Il Trovatore, and produced impressive results.

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Copyright © 25 November 2000 Roderic Dunnett, Coventry, UK

 

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