The Grange Festival 2017 the company staged a newly orchestrated production of Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park. The 2018 season opened with DANCE@THEGRANGE directed by Wayne McGregor and Edward Watson, followed by a well-received production of Handel's Agrippina with the Academy of Ancient Music. The Barber of Seville by Rossini directed by Stephen Barlow followed. Copley returned to direct Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio and a single concert performance of Candide by Leonard Bernstein completed the season. In 2019 McGregor returns with performances of 21st Century Women. The three operas will be Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi and an
Renée Doria Renée Doria Renée Doria (born 13 February 1921) is a French opera singer, one of the leading lyric coloratura sopranos of her era in France. Born Renée Dumazert in Perpignan, France, after a thorough musical training (piano, solfege, harmony) she turned to vocal study with Umberto Valdarmini, and made her singing debut in concert at the age of 18. Her official operatic debut took place in 1942, in Marseille, as Rosina in "Il barbiere di Siviglia". After singing Constance in "The Abduction from the Seraglio" in Cannes under Reynaldo Hahn, and the three heroines (Olympia, Giulietta, Antonia) in "Les contes