Performed by amateurs and professionals, Dalia – the tender story of a displaced girl who finds acceptance through cricket – is a rebuke to the UK’s increasingly cruel immigration policy
AN opera inspired by a global dialogue between children living in war-torn communities and refugee camps and children in the UK will be performed at Garsington .
THE season at Garsington Opera opened this week with most events sold out. However, there is still a chance to buy tickets for Benjamin Britten’s The Turn.
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YOUNG singers are being invited to sign up for the chance to perform a new work commissioned by Garsington Opera this summer.
Composed by John Barber with a libretto by Jessica Duchen based on the children’s story by Oscar Wilde,
The Selfish Giant will premiere at the Wormsley Estate on Thursday, July 29.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, auditions are having to be held digitally, with singers aged nine to 25 being asked to submit an online application and audition video by 6pm on Wednesday.
Full details of how to apply can be found on Garsington’s website, but director Karen Gillingham hopes nobody will be discouraged from applying whatever their level of previous experience.