Grange Park Opera - Season Brochure (Jan 2017 version)

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Oliver! at Grange Park Opera 2016. Simon Keenlyside as Fagin with his gang of pickpockets

‘I had such a good time that I was sorely tempted to jump on stage at the final chorus and join in’ DA I LY T E L E G R A P H

WELCOME FIVE MIR ACLES HAVE TAKEN PL ACE . The first was finding the magical setting of West Horsley Place. Other marvels were getting planning permission to build a fabulous new opera house in the Surrey Hills, the generosity of contributors (listed later) and the pace at which Martin Smith, our builder, has been making it take shape. How convenient that all this is happening a mile from a railway station – and around the corner from the M25.

Of course, the greatest miracle of all has been the exceptional philanthropy of Bamber and Christina Gascoigne. By placing their inheritance into a charitable trust, this bewitching house and grounds can now be enjoyed forever by many people from all walks of life.

Such miracles are cause for celebration and I do hope you will join us. Of course, the new can be frightening so it will be blended with familiar old friends: the seats – originally from the Royal Opera House – have come with us, as have the Indian pavilions, the chandeliers and the much-loved train set.

At the heart of the experience is music. On June 8, Grange Park Opera will open in its new home with Tosca, and to sing for us we have captured the tenor superstar, Joseph Calleja. Joseph is one of a firmament that will be performing this season: Natalya Romaniw is in the title role of Janacek’s Jenufa (written at the same time as Tosca and with a similarly lavish orchestral palette), while for Wagner’s epic Die Walküre, American tenor Bryan Register will sing Siegmund opposite Rachel Nichols whose performances throughout Europe have been the talk of the EU. The icing on the cake is an evening with two superstars: Zenaida Yanowsky, Principal Artist with the Royal Ballet, and our patron, recently-knighted Bryn Terfel – who kindly said that he found singing with Grange Park Opera “life-affirming”.

Thank you to all who have helped – both now and since 1998.

We have stepped into a fairy tale. Come and join us.

Wasfi Kani Chief Exective, Grange Park Opera

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START TIME

PERFORMANCE

THU 8

6

PM

TO S C A

SAT 10

6

PM

TO S C A

SUN 11

6

PM

JENUFA

THU 15

6

PM

TOSCA

FRI 16

6

PM

BRYN & ZEN

SAT 17

6

PM

JENUFA

SUN 18

6

PM

TO S C A

THU 22

6

PM

TO S C A

FRI 23

6

PM

JENUFA

SAT 24

6

PM

TOSCA

WED 28

6

PM

TOSCA

THU 29

4

PM

WA L KÜ R E

FRI 30

6

PM

TO S C A

SAT 1

4

PM

WA L KÜ R E

SUN 2

6

PM

TO S C A

WED 5

4

PM

WA L KÜ R E

THU 6

6

PM

JENUFA

SAT 8

6

PM

JENUFA

SUN 9

4

PM

WA L KÜ R E

WED 12

4

PM

WA L KÜ R E

SAT 15

4

PM

WA L KÜ R E

JUNE 2017

JULY 2017

START TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE All performances end before 10pm.

Monday-Saturday: there are five trains after 10pm from Horsley station to London.

Sunday: there are two trains (10.30 and 11pm).

Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera 2016

‘Don Carlo: gripping, gruesome and ‘Plucky company slays anTHEoperatic Goliath’ brutally convincing’ GUARDIAN FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Hope is a waking dream’ A R I S TOT L E

Jenufa Music by LEOS JANACEK (1854 – 1928) Opera in three acts | First performance 21 January 1904, Brno Theatre Libretto by Janacek, based on the play Její pastorkyna by Gabriela Preissová PRODUCTION ORIGINATES FROM WELSH NATIONAL OPERA (1998)

IN A VILLAGE IN RUSTIC MORAVIA the hapless Jenufa nurses her passion for her cousin, Steva. She is also carrying his child. Add a jealous half-brother and a conflicted stepmother into the mix and it adds up to an explosive drama. And that’s even before the winter ice melts to reveal a terrible secret.

Regarded as one of Janacek’s masterpieces, Jenufa is music drama at its most intense and devastating, composed in the months preceding his daughter’s death.

THE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conductor William Lacey Director Katie Mitchell Revival Director Robin Tebbutt Designer Vicki Mortimer Lighting Design Nigel Edwards

Natalya Romaniw Jenufa

sponsor Judith Lawless & Kevin Egan

Nicky Spence Steva

sponsor John & Carol Wates

Susan Bullock Kostelnicka Co Chvila Anonymous

Andrew Rees Laca Jihoon Kim Mayor Anne-Marie Owens Grandmother Jano Eleanor Garside Foreman Harry Thatcher

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‘I lived for art, I lived for love . . .

I helped people of misfortune . . .

I decorated the altar with flowers . . .

I gave jewels for the Madonna’s mantle . . .

I gave music to the sky and stars . . .

Why, my God, do you reward me thus?’

F LO R I A TO S C A , AC T 2 V I S S I D ’A RT E

Tosca Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858 – 1924) Opera in three acts | First performance 14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome Libretto by Illica & Giacosa based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou SPONSORED BY ICAP

PLC

ROME, 1800. The opera singer, Floria Tosca, has two admirers. One is Mario Cavaradossi, a painter – and the man she loves. The other is the Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia, who wants them both: Tosca in his bed and Cavaradossi dead.

Political tensions and personal passions collide; Tosca will pay the ultimate price.

Superstar tenor Joseph Calleja takes the role of Cavaradossi opposite Ekaterina Metlova, who will sing Tosca, in this most passionate and dramatic of operas.

THE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conductor Gianluca Marciano Director Peter Relton Designer Francis O’Connor Lighting Design David Plater

Ekaterina Metlova Tosca

sponsor Sue Lawson and

Anthony & Carolyn Townsend Vissi d’arte David & Clare Kershaw

Joseph Calleja Cavaradossi

sponsor François Freyeisen & Shunichi Kubo E lucevan le stelle Diane & Christopher Sheridan The firing squad Adam & Lucy Constable The Attavanti Fan Rosie Faunch

Roland Wood Baron Scarpia His head Brian & Jennifer Ratner His body & legs John L Pember ton

Jihoon Kim Angelotti

sponsor Jeremy & Rosemary Farr

Simon Wilding Sacristan sponsor Noreen Doyle

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‘He had reached that moment in life when a man abandons himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.’ M A R G U E R I T E YO U R C E N A R , M E M O I R S O F H A D R I A N

Die Walküre Music by RICHARD WAGNER (1813 – 1883) Music drama in three acts | First performance 26 June 1870, Munich Libretto by Richard Wagner, based on Norse myths SUPPORTED BY A SYNDICATE LED BY DAVID & AMANDA LEATHERS WITH SIR WIN & LADY BISCHOFF

FAMED FOR THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES, Die Walküre contains some of the most compelling vocal music ever written – as well as two of Wagner’s most sympathetic characters, Siegmund and Sieglinde.

While taking shelter from a raging storm, Siegmund chances upon Sieglinde, his long-lost twin sister. Their forbidden love unleashes a chain of events that culminates in the collapse of the old order.

THE BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor Stephen Barlow

Rachel Nicholls Sieglinde

Director Stephen Medcalf

Bryan Register Siegmund

Set Designer Jamie Vartan

Winterstürme Mr & Mrs Grant Gordon The sword Mrs T Landon

Lighting Design David Plater

Alan Ewing Hunding Thomas Hall Wotan

VALKYRIES

Mari Wyn Williams, Becca Mariott, Tanya Hurst, Gemma Morsley, Morag Boyle, Anne-Marie Owens, Felicity Buckland, Laura Easton

Wotan’s Farewell Katie Bradford

Sara Fulgoni Fricka Jane Dutton Brünnhilde

War es so schmählich Stephen Gosztony & Sue Butcher

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‘It is a blessing to give’ T E V Y E T H E DA I RY M A N

Bryn Terfel Zenaida Yanowsky

SINGS

DANCES

SUPPORTED BY JAMES & BÉATRICE LUPTON

TWO FITTINGLY GRAND superstars welcome you to the opening season of our new opera house.

Bryn’s triumphant performances of Fiddler on the Roof was seen by 5,000 people during our 2015 season and a further 6,000 at the BBC Proms, where tickets sold out in two hours. 95,000 tuned into the live radio broadcast.

For one night only, with pianist Iain Burnside, Bryn and Zenaida present an intimate evening to remember.

‘Singing with Grange Park Opera is lifeaffirming. These are people who want to bring a new generation to opera on and off the stage. I will be joining them on their journey.’ SIR BRYN TERFEL, APPEAL PATRON

Photograph Rick Guest

Spanish dancer Zenaida Yanowsky comes from a family of dancers. Since 2001 she has been a Principal Artist at the Royal Ballet. Her many roles include Odette/Odile Swan Lake, Sylvia, Sugar Plum Fairy Nutcracker, Queen of Hearts Alice’s Adventures and Paulina Winter’s Tale.

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‘a masterly Tristan . . . each act unfurling slowly tow

wards the climax: steady, transparent, explosive’ T H E O B S E RV E R

YOUR VISIT WHEN TO ARRIVE Guests may arrive from two hours before the opera star ts. They explore the gardens, eat some of their picnic, have tea or a glass of champagne. (Performance start times on page 4).

THE LONG INTERVAL Good music, good books, good company and good conversation are leisurely pursuits that bring great happiness. (Almost) as enjoyable as the opera itself, the Long Interval is the important bit.

DRESS Guests wear something stylish.

Most of the audience wear black tie/long or short dress, but don’t be afraid to stand out from the crowd: we encourage creativity.

BEFORE THE OPER A Pre–performance canapés and champagne are served on the lawn on the west side of the house.

THE RESTAUR ANT The simplest option is to make a restaurant reservation within the splendour of the 500 yearold mansion (tablecloths, gleaming cutlery, flowers). A splendid threecourse menu with fine wines might not equal the 35-course luncheon enjoyed by Henry VIII on the very same flagstones . . . but then tastes have changed.

Fortnum & Mason tea is served in china cups with excellent cakes and scones on the Croquet Lawn.

There are a number of private dining rooms for parties from ten upwards.

Guests explore the walled gardens, take a romantic stroll through the woods, linger in the orchard (where there is a 200-year-old mulberry tree and dozens of damsons, pears and apples) and discover the Lily Pond Garden.

Menus and booking details will be sent with your tickets.

PICNIC OUTDOORS FORTNUM & MASON deliver hampers, fresh from Piccadilly to Horsley. You can book a Raj-style pavilion, or sit under an apple tree in the orchard, or by the magical crinkle-crankle wall or in the Lily Pond garden . . . or in the woods.

The possibilities are endless.

BRING YOUR OWN PICNIC Bring your own gourmet picnic.

We can provide tables and chairs, and, for a fee, a porter to carry your hamper from the car park.

There are private pavilions.

There’s nothing like bagging the best spot on the grass and having your own idyll. There are stylish tables and chairs that you are welcome to use – free. Just make sure you get there first.

If you bring your own furniture, it can only be used in the orchard.

Please: no barbecues; no erected structures. We aim for elegance at all times.

GETTING THERE

BY CAR Sat Nav KT24 6AN The new opera house is between Leatherhead and Guildford, 10 minutes from the intersection of the A3 and M25.

Your guests can leave London midafternoon and arrive with time for a glass of champagne before the opera.

A map may be downloaded from the website and a printed version will be sent with your tickets.

BY TRAIN Horsley station is one mile away with frequent trains from Waterloo, Vauxhall, Clapham Junction (45 mins). There will be a shuttle bus on performance days.

Woking Station is 8 miles away (25 mins from London; 8 trains/hour).

WALKING We are a short walk from Horsley station – along the railway line and then through estate fields.

SPECIAL ACCESS We ask that guests without good mobility are accompanied. When booking please indicate (a) whether or not you require wheelchair space (b) if you have other specific seating needs.

Mobility scooters may not be used.

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TICKET PRICES SATURDAY & BRYN+ZEN

THE REST

BAND A

STALLS, GRAND TIER BOXES § (SEAT 8 & 10) , BALCONY BOXES § (SEAT 8) Only full boxes are sold

£190

£180

BAND B

STALLS, STALLS CIRCLE, BALCONY BOXES § (SEAT 8) Only full boxes are sold

£175

£165

BAND C

STALLS, STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BALCONY

£160

£145

BAND D

STALLS, STALLS CIRCLE, BALCONY

£145

£125

BAND E

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER

£125

£105

BAND F

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BALCONY, ATTIC (some restricted view)

£105

£105

BAND G

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BALCONY, ATTIC (some restricted view)

£90

£85

BAND H

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BALCONY, ATTIC (some restricted view)

£70

£70

The Duchess liked sheep to graze in front of the house – and the tradition lives on

AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS the opera house seating had not been installed. Should we anticipate any significant changes, we will contact effected ticketholders.

Keep abreast of progress at grangeparkopera.co.uk

SEAT MAP THE ATTIC

BALCONY

GR AND TIER

STALLS CIRCLE

STALLS

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HOW TO BOOK BOOKING DATES Supporter requests Monday 21 Nov 2016 from 10.30 am 35 and under (Meteor) Tuesday 7 Feb 2017 from 10.30 am General booking Wednesday 8 Feb 2017 from 10.30 am CONTACT US 01962 73 73 73 info@grangeparkopera.co.uk

ONLINE www.grangeparkopera.co.uk

BY PHONE 01962 73 73 73 Monday to Friday, 9.30–5.30

BY POST Return the booking form overleaf IMPORTANT NOTE Supporter requests received

by Thursday 12 January will be allocated before general booking opens. Other bookings will be processed after 8 February 2017.

METEORS

MUSICAL CHAIRS

TICKETS for 35 and under

FREE TICKETS for 14-22

People of all ages are captivated by opera. It is the most expensive art form (a 60-piece orchestra, a chorus of 30+, not to mention technicians dealing with scenery, costumes, lighting etc). We don’t want money to be a barrier to younger people falling in love with opera. After all, they are the future.

There are free seats for younger people who otherwise could not come to the opera. To apply, complete the form on the website.

These tickets are subsidised by charitable trusts and ticket buyers.

Every night (other than Saturday), there are 50 Meteor tickets @ £35. Situated in all areas of the auditorium, they can be purchased in a 24 hour window prior to general booking.

All you have to do is sign up as a Meteor. It costs nothing.

Photography Richard Lewisohn

B OO K I N G F O R M | 2 017 OR

BOOK ONLINE

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grangeparkopera.co.uk Send this form to

NAME

Grange Park Opera Sutton Manor Farm Bishops Sutton, Alresford SO24 0AA

ADDRESS

Tick if you would accept single seats, if necessary Tick if you are in a wheelchair

POSTCODE

The website has full Gift Aid information, Conditions of Sale and more. Or ring 01962 73 73 73

EMAIL TELEPHONE

DATE

NUMBER OF TICKETS

PRICE BAND

ALTERNATIVE DATES SPECIAL REQUESTS

TOTAL

JENUFA

£

DIE WALKÜRE

£

TOSCA

£

BRYN & ZEN

£

We will allocate you the best available seats in the selected Price Band If you prefer to be in a par ticular place, please note this in Special Requests MUSICAL CHAIRS I would like to make a contribution towards a free seat for a young person who otherwise could not come to the opera

£

SUPPORT THE 2017 SEASON (if you have not already done so) The season costs far more than is received from ticket income and we depend on members to bridge the gap. They choose their tickets from November. You can jump the queue and have your request processed before public booking opens. Join a School of Support: Plato (£210), Archimedes (£360), Hippocrates (£690) or Glass Ceiling (£1,100)

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GRAND TOTAL Please send cheques for this total made payable to Grange Park Opera.

If no cheque is attached, we will be in contact by phone in due course to take payment.

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‘West Horsley Place is a glorious sprawling ancient house: grand but welcoming, with secret corners, aged trees, box hedges and a majestic crinkle-crankle wall’ JOANNA LUMLEY, APPEAL PATRON

A NEW OPERA HOUSE THE THEATRE IN THE WOODS Late October 2016

THI S PHOTOGR APH was taken on Tuesday 13 September, the last summer day of 2016, when only a few beams of the six miles of steel had been erected.

Guildford Borough Council had granted permission on 18 May, the Secretary of State had given final approval on 31 May and building started on 20 June. By 5 September the foundations were complete (146 concrete piles of 19m) and then work began on the steel structure.

By early November there will be a roof and by Christmas the theatre will be watertight.

The opera house opens on 8 June 2017 and the audience will walk into the semi-circular atrium with treelike columns soaring from floor to roof. Scaffolding will still envelop it but enough will be complete to stage magnificent operas.

High on the outside wall above the main door is a balcony from which trumpeters will summon the audience to the performance – an idea inspired by (stolen from) Wagner’s Bayreuth.

After the 2017 season, work resumes on the elaborate outer brick work and the decoration of the auditorium: the splendid enriched balcony fronts and a painted ceiling.

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‘What a treat to hear this magnificent opera so generously honoured’ DA I LY T E L E G R A P H

AN INTRODUCTION

BY

BAMBER GASCOIGNE

I HAVE HAD T WO VERY GRE AT S U RPRI S ES in the past 18

months. The first was the unexpected news that I had been left, by a 99-year-old aunt, Mary Roxburghe, a beautiful house in the country.

A week after her death I received a request to go to a solicitor’s office. On arrival I was handed her will. I did my best to look calm and collected while they provided a cup of coffee and biscuits.

The other great surprise was provided by Grange Park Opera. A small group of their trustees paid a visit. Again over coffee and biscuits, they described their proposal and asked Christina and me if it might be acceptable. It didn’t take us long to say ‘Yes, indeed’. It isn’t every day that you are invited to have an opera house in your garden.

A wrought-iron gate leads opera-goers from the semi-formal walled gardens to our orchard – a magical place of amazingly old fruit trees, perfect for a picnic. And from there a short path will take guests to the new opera house, tucked away romantically in a wood.

And then the house itself. Amazing . . . and I could go on and on. But it is enough to say that the ground floor, an unbroken sequence of Tudor stone flags leading into the garden, has space for 150 people to dine in style.

There has been a manor house on the estate since soon after the Norman Conquest, but the present house is a sturdy timber-frame building from about 1500. It was still virtually a new house when Henry VIII seized it and gave it in 1536 to his cousin and childhood friend, Henry Courtenay. The grateful Courtenay felt he should ask the King and his retinue to lunch in the Great Hall – an expensive undertaking. The details of the 35 courses survive. The range of birds on offer is startling – stewed sparrows, larded pheasants, ducks, gulls, stork, gannets, heron, pullets, quail and partridge. But Henry was a fickle friend. Thomas Cromwell later persuaded him that Courtenay was unreliable, with a Catholic wife, and in 1539 the King had him beheaded – a mere three years after that congenial lunch!

There is no external sign now of West Horsley Place being a timber house but inside there are fascinating glimpses in doorways, staircases, wainscoting. The original oak structure is still holding up the entire building. The elegant front of the present house is, in fact, pure sham. The owner, in about 1640, seems to have decided that it was embarrassing to live in such an old house. So he went 27

for a cheap option – he commissioned the brick façade and had it screwed to the old timbers.

In 1931, the Marquess of Crewe (my great-grandfather) and his second wife, Peggy, sold the great Crewe Hall in Cheshire. They had decided to ‘downsize’ and were looking for a small house in Surrey.

Their searches brought them to West Horsley Place. They immediately fell under its spell, as almost everyone does, and bought it although it was, in Crewe’s biographer’s words, ‘larger than they had intended’.

Beautiful, spacious and ideal for house parties and family gatherings, it was the perfect place for them to live in style in the years up to the war. The house then, as now, was full of a vast numbers of books because both Crewe and his father had been passionate collectors.

Mary Crewe-Milnes, Duchess of Roxburghe (1915-2014) was a goddaughter of Queen Mary, after whom she was named. Her mother, Peggy Primrose, was the daughter of the British prime minister the Earl of Rosebery. In 1935, Mary married the dashing, eligible Duke of Roxburghe, known as Bobo, and moved to the enormous Floors Castle, in the Scottish Borders. She was living there in 1953 when Bobo had the butler serve her with divorce papers with her breakfast. The Duke told her to leave the castle but her solicitor advised her not to go quietly, pointing out that in Scots law the size of the alimony depended on how willing or unwilling the wife had been to leave. On the instructions of her counsel, she staged a tenday sit-in which became a sensation in the national press. First the Duke sacked all the servants he could, leaving her only her lady’s maid, whom the Duchess paid herself. The huge empty castle was eerie for the two women alone, with their nights soon lit only by oil lamps after the Duke had disconnected the electricity. When he cut off the water, the solicitor said her point was made. It had been worth it – the alimony was excellent.

Mary moved south and, with her mother’s death in 1967, she became châtelaine of West Horsley Place, living there for more than 40 years and playing an enthusiastic part in local activities.

The Stone Hall with tudor f lagstones upon which strode Henry VIII

The Red Drawing Room

In an act of exceptional philanthropy Bamber & Christina Gascoigne have given the house, land and ancillary buildings to The Mary Roxburghe Trust which has granted Grange Park Opera a 99 year lease – meaning a permanent home for the charity.

The ashes of the Duchess of Roxburghe (above) are in a casket under the first violins.

Peeping over the orchard wall, men are f inishing the roof membrane and you can see the opening for the fanfare balcony

Friday 13 January 2017. The steel for the stage has been installed Work started on 20 June 2016. Bravo R J Smith team

SUPPORTING GR ANGE PARK OPER A

A MOMENT BEYOND EXCITEMENT . . . . . . AND GRANGE PARK OPERA IS BEYOND GRATEFUL to donors of the £10m Appeal.

Their rapid generosity has enabled the building to take shape very quickly.

THE

HADRON COLLIDERS

Michael & Hilary Cowan Michael & Sarah Spencer Clore Duffield Foundation Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation Ronnie Frost & family Red Butterfly Foundation William Garrett David & Linda Lloyd Jones THE

PIONEERS

PATRON SPUTNIK David & Amanda Leathers John L Pemberton Simon & Meg Freakley Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Ruth Markland William & Kathy Charnley Stephen Gosztony & Sue Butcher Sir Henry & The Hon Lady Keswick Tony & Sarah Bolton TURING Mr Quentin Black Michael & Julia Calvey Samantha & Nabil Chartouni Jane & Jonathan Clarke Aidan & Colette Clegg Adam & Lucy Constable Peter & Annette Dart Sir David Davies Peter & Manina Dicks Noreen Doyle T V Drastik Niall, Ingrid & Gabriella FitzGerald Alex & Alison Fortescue François Freyeisen & Shunichi Kubo Chris & Marjorie Gibson-Smith Hilary Hart Harry Hyman David & Clare Kershaw Lord & Lady Marks of Broughton Rothschild & Co Mr & Mrs Matthias Ruhland Lord & Lady Sassoon Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Ed & Lulu Siskind Martin & Lucy Stapleton

Joanna Lumley

Hugh & Catherine Stevenson Anthony & Carolyn Townsend SOPWITH Sir Gerald & Lady Acher John & Jackie Alexander Vindi & Kamini Banga Joanna Barlow The Buckley Family The Carole & Geoffrey Lawson Foundation David & Elizabeth Challen Jane & Paul Chase-Gardener Richard & Frances Clarke Mr & Mrs Tim Cockroft The John S Cohen Foundation Anonymous Mr & Mrs Leo A Daly III The de Laszlo Foundation Nick & Lesley Dumbreck Judith Lawless & Kevin Egan The Ewins Family Jeremy & Rosemary Farr Deborah & Neil Franks Christina & Bamber Gascoigne Roger & Clare Gifford The Gillmore Trust The Reekimlane Foundation George & Caroline Goulding Charles & Maggie Hallatt The Hon Charles Harris Malcolm Herring Dr Jonathan Holliday & Dr Gwen Lewis Richard & Pamela Jacobs Raymonde Jay Keith & Lucy Jones The Justham Trust

The Kirk Family Mr & Mrs Francis C Lang Mark H Lewisohn Oscar & Margaret Lewisohn Richard & Alex Lewisohn Tessa & John Manser Darcy & Alexander Munro Bruce & Pamela Noble Peter & Poppity Nutting Hamish Parker Stephen & Isobel Parkinson Cathy & Michael Pearman Lord & Lady Phillimore Mike & Jessamy Reynolds John & Pit Rink Nigel & Viv Robson Anne & Barry Rourke David & Lynneth Salisbury Victoria & John Salkeld Mark & Louise Seligman Diane & Christopher Sheridan Anonymous Sir John & Lady Sunderland Andrew & Jane Sutton Christopher Swan Anonymous Adam & Louise Tyrrell Johnny & Marie Veeder Rev. John Wates OBE & Mrs Carol Wates Mr David & Mrs Alison Watson Keith & Katy Weed Anonymous Edward & Mandy Weston Linda Wilding Jane & Andrew Winch

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THE

CIRCLE

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VIRTUOUS ENTERPRISE

PATRON

Sir Bryn Terfel

A 99-year lease makes this a theatre for many generations to come.

The Circle comprises 500 people contributing at the entry level (currently £2,750).

People are allotted a number in order of joining and will be acknowledged on a scroll in the theatre for 20 years. Why not take places for your children or grandchildren?

1 Bryn Terfel 164 Cilla & John Slater 107 Mr Victor Coles 55 David & Peta Crowther 2 Wasfi Kani 165 Mr & Mrs L Vine-Chatterton 56 Liz & Mike Cooper-Mitchell 108 David & Virginia Essex 3 Alexander & Mary Creswell 109 Mr & Mrs David Blackburn 166 – 170 Anonymous 57 Anonymous 4 Mr & Mrs David Ibeson 171 Peter & Katie Gray 58 Dr Henry & Mrs Julia Pearson 110 Andrew Luff 5 Ms Nicola A. Freshwater 111 & 112 Diana & Terence Kyle 172 Mr David Gutman 59 Mrs Margaret Green 6 Mr & Mrs Graham West 173 David & Alex Rhodes 113 Mr Julian Hardwick 60 Helen Culleton 7 Jean & Richard Baldwin 174 Charlie Chase-Gardener 61 Peter & Marie-Claire Wilson 114 Mr & Mrs Peter Leaver 8 Hilary & James Leek 175 Lucy Chase-Gardener 115 John Kessler 62 Mrs Margaret Bolam 9 Adam & Carola Lee 176 Mr Josh Holliday 116 Angela Kessler 63 Mrs Elizabeth Vyvyan 10 Christopher & Tineke Stewart 64 Mr Brian Boyce 177 Mr Tom Holliday 117 Mr Habib Motani 11 Miss Pamela M North 178 Peter & Brenda Berners-Price 118 Miss Elizabeth Cretch 65 Mrs Judith Boyce 12 Tony Legge 179 Miss Rula Al-Adasani MBE 119 Anonymous 66 Anonymous 13 Anonymous 180 Helen Dorey 120 David & Vivienne Woolf 67 Mr & Mrs S R Jeffreys 14 Mrs Susan Lochner JP DL

& Markus Geisser 121 Mr Julian Stanford 68 Christopher Jack 15 Harry & Ellen Thurman 122 – 124 James & Béatrice Lupton 181 Mrs Tim Landon

& Stephanie Sfakianos 125 Mina & Suzanne Goodman 182 Hugh & Mary Boardman 16 Roger & Jackie Morris 69 Robin & Anne Purchas 126 Mrs Carolyn Conlan 17 Peter & Irene Casey 183 Stephen & Nilda Ginn 70 Laura & Andrew Sykes 127 Dominic & Katherine Powell 184 Tom & Sarah Grillo 18 George Kingston 71 Anonymous 128 Mrs Laurence Colchester 19 – 23 Gerry & Joyce Acher’s 185 Dr Tom McClintock 72 Mr Adrian Knowles 129 Mr Mark & Mrs Sue Luboff 186 Richard & Miriam Borchard grandchildren 73 Mrs Tikki Adorian 130 Julian G Jones 24 Peter & Jacquie Homonko 187 Chris & Miranda Ward 74 Laurence & Janey Langford 131 Ian & Helen Andrews 25 Mrs Alyson Wilson 188 Mr Peter Linacre 75 Paul Batchelor 132 David & Elizabeth Pritchard 189 William & Felicity Mather 26 James & Helena Watson 76 Janet Batchelor 133 Anne Howells & Steve Clarke 190 Nicholas & Jane St Aubyn 27 Mr & Mrs William Witts 77 Miss Deborah Finkler 134 Hugh Fagan 28 Liz & Nigel Peace 191 Mr & Mrs Barry Bramley

& Mr Allan Murray-Jones 135 Crispin Cazalet 29 Jane Poulter 192 Mr Ian Coutts-Wood 78 Mr & Mrs John Colwell 136 Antoni & Caroline Daszewski 193 Oliver & Felicity Wethered 30 Angela & David Harvey 79 Dr Jonathan Holliday 137 Dr Anthony Smoker 31 Mrs Annabel Allott 194 The O’Hea family

& Dr Gwen Lewis 138 Mr & Mrs Max Ulfane 32 Ian & Clare Maurice 195 J & V Knox 80 Sharon Pipe 139 Clive & Helena Butler 33 Nick & Sarah Treble 196 Mr Andrew Simon 81 Martin & Brigitte Skan 140 Jill & Mike Pullan 34 David & Fiona Taylor 197 Anonymous 82 Dr Patrick Mill 141 Nick Viner & Victoria Boyarsky 198 Anonymous 35 Paul Drury & Anna McPherson83 Jeanette Mill 36 George & Marie Rushton 199 The One Style Tour 84 Dr Peter Harrison & Verity Jones 142 Mr & Mrs John Tremlett 85 The Fischer Fund 143 Edwina Sassoon 37 Peter & Marianne Hooley 200 Bruce & Bridget Montgomery 38 Mark & Rosemary Carawan 86 Bill Bougourd & Judith Thomas 144 Christopher & Clare McCann 201 Oliver & Rebecca Huggins 145 Michael de Navarro 39 Sir Anthony & Lady Cleaver 87 Iain & Mary Rhind 202 Ms Morfydd Evans 88 Mrs Michael Beresford-West 146 Emily, Victoria & Isobel Battcock 203 Christina & Timothy Benn 40 Ernst Uwe Hanneck 89 Mr Mat Kirk & Mrs Sam Kirk 147 Christian & Katie Wells

& Karin Mueller 204 Prudence & Kevan Watts 148 Mr & Mrs Angel 41 Madeleine & Stephen McGairl 90 & 91 The Foxley Trust 205 Bobasch Joel Foundation 92 Peter Kerfack & Russell Townend 149 Austin & Ragna Erwin 42 Antonia Murphy 206 Veronica Powell 93 Andrew & Jane Sutton 150 Charles Alexander

& Clare Bevan 207 Anonymous 94 George Meagher

& Kasia Starega 43 Dame Janet Gaymer 208 Sue & Graham White 95 Jack Gardener 151 Alan Thomas 44 Mr John Gaymer 209 Sir Rupert & Lady Jackson 96 Jan & Michael Potter 152 Jerry & Clare Wright 45 Dr Martin Read 210 Angela & Clive Gilchrist 153 Sue & Peter Morgan

& Dr Marian Gilbart Read 97 Mr & Mrs Henry Lumley 211 Michael & Nirmala Rappolt 98 Sir Michael Parker 154 Sue & Peter Paice 46 Siân & Ben Tyler 212 Patricia & Richard Millett 99 Lady Parker 155 Dieter & Lesley Losse 47 Sally Phillips 213 Mr Graham Elliott 100 Miss Lily Bagwell Purefoy 156 Mr Charles Rosier 48 Tristan Wood

& Mrs Emma Crabtree 101 Pam Alexander 157 Anonymous 49 Dr Carolyn Greenwood 214 John & Susan Burns

& Roger Booker 158 Professor Heather Joshi CBE 215 Hilary & Barney II Myerscough

& John McVittie 102 Dr & Mrs G M Tonge 159 Dr Barbara Domayne-Hayman 216 Michael & Allie Eaton 50 Eliza Mellor 217 Lady Purves 103 Simon & Rosemary Godfrey 160 Mr Hugh Gammell 51 Andrew & Marian Sanders 161 Anonymous 218 Ms Carolyn Saunders 104 Rob & Felicity Shepherd 52 William & Kitty Vaughan

& Mr Richard Ford 105 June, Dyrol & Becky Lumbard162 Neil & Elizabeth Johnson 53 David & Sarah Rosier 163 Eleanor G Berry 219 The Tickner Family 106 Janet Mernane 54 John & Cecilia Gordon

220 Nigel Silby 294 Bruce & Roma Hooper 328 Handa Bray 252 Paul Coleman DL 221 Andy & Estelle Los 295 Oliver & Emma Pawle 329 Dame Sarah Goad 253 Mrs Jeanette Bird 222 Ben & Christina Perry 330 Penny Proudlock 254 Toby & Jennifer Greenbury 296 The McGinley Foundation 223 Richard & Sally Nield 331 Andrew & Alison Hutton 255 Anthony & Fiona Littlejohn 297 Zsalya 224 Mr & Mrs John Jarvis 298 Jonathan & Sarah Bayliss 332 Alan & Sheena Kingsley 256 David Alan Foster 225 Mrs Juliet Dunsmure 299 Julie Joy Jarman & Jack Pickard 333 Felix Appelbe 257 Dr John Grimshaw 226 Ian & Wendy Sampson 334 Valerie & Peter Hewett 258 Baroness Patience Wheatcroft 300 Miranda Robinson 259 Victoria Gath & Mark Echlin 301 Jeremy Lewis Simons 227 Felix Appelbe 335 Mollie & John Julius Norwich 302 Christopher & Sarah Smith 336 Malcolm & Gill Aish 228 George & Veronique Seligman 260 Peter & Angela Granger 229 Clementine Wyke 261 – 265 Jenny Bland 303 Nick & Anne Driver 337 Fiona & William Alexander 230 The Lady Heseltine 266 Ms Melinda Hughes 304 Nicholas & Linda Payne 338 Ludlow, Fenston 231 Adair Turner & 267 Paul & Lydia Goodson 305 Mike Hendry

& Cassar Morris

Orna NiChionna 268 Bruce & Lizzie Powell 306 Christopher Reeves 339 Mr Robert G Williams 232 Fiona & Peter Hare 269 – 272 Anonymous

Memorial Trust 340 Barry & Dee Jones 233 Peter & Rosemary Derby 273 Sir John & Lady Hood 307 Derek & Lynda Rapport 341 Mr & Mrs Christopher Lambourne 234 Kathrine Palmer 274 John & Elizabeth Maycock 308 Mr Per Jonsson 342 Mr & Mrs Neil Donnan 235 Nigel & Johanna Stapleton 275 Pam & John Bevington 309 Mr & Mrs Haydn Abbott 236 Mr Andrew & Mrs Jill Soundy 276 Susanne & Jeffrey Nedas 310 David & Deborah Stileman 343 Fran & Mike Pattinson 344 Sir David & Lady Prosser 237 Mark & Alva Powell 277 Dr Ann Williams 311 Robert & Judith Hart 345 Tom & Alison Baigrie 238 Tamara Mitchel 278 Tony & Valerie Thompson 312 Jeffrey & Vivien Sultoon 239 John Derrick & Preben Oeye 279 Rosie Faunch 313 Olivier Bourgois & Alice Goldet 346 George & Jane Boden 314 Mr Roderick Davidson 347 Jean & David Poole 240 Shirley & Brian Carte 280 Hugh & Claire Peppiatt 315 Anthony Bunker 348 S F G Fachada & J H Breck 241 Sir Peter & Lady Cazalet 281 Mr & Mrs Andrew Frost 349 Martyn & Karen Brabbins 242 Prof Mark & Dr Gill Britton 282 Sir David & Lady Normington 316 Anonymous 283 Ione Woollacott 317 Mr & Mrs Leprince Jungbluth 350 Simon & Sally Borrows 243 John & Trudi Harris 284 Ron & Pennie Zimmern 318 Brian, Jennifer & Ben Ratner 351 David & Madeleine Cannon 244 Longina Boczon 285 Jocelin & Cherry Harris 319 Prof Neil & Dr Jane Mortensen 352 Tulchan Communications LLP 245 David & Frances Waters 320 David Buchler 286 Jilly Allenby-Ryan 353 John & Jane Harrap 246 Polizzi Charitable Trust 321 Anonymous 287 Nicole Hutchings 354 Malcolm & Anita Paul 247 Anne & Alistair Calder 322 Mr Lawrence M. Eagles 288 The Peak Family 355 Martin & Sarah Young 248 Nerissa Guest 289 Mr Michael & Mrs Julia Kerby 323 Mrs Margaret Green 356 Richard & Patricia Holden 249 Mr & Mrs F A Wilson 290 Christopher & Georgie Birrell 324 Paul & Ursula Manduca 357 Peter & Carol Cordrey 250 Prof Graham Layer 291 Stuart Errington CBE DL 325 Michael & Sarah Hewett 358 Chris & Clare Mathias

& Dr Jenny Sillick 292 Lord & Lady Woolton 326 The Houston Family 359, 360 Gay Huey-Evans 251 Ms Jane Jenkins 361 Mr Peter Gray

& Mr Oscar Harrison-Hall 293 Robert & Felicity Waley-Cohen 327 Roy & Frances O’Gorman

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