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
Rory Macdonald (conductor) Love". In 2003 Macdonald made his Glyndebourne debut at very short notice with "Idomeneo". Also at Glyndebourne he has conducted "Così fan tutte" and "Albert Herring" for the autumn tour. Other opera work has included "L'elisir d'amore" (Welsh National Opera), "The Abduction from the Seraglio" (Opera North) "La bohème" (Danish National Opera, RTÉ NSO), "La fanciulla del West" (Grange Park Opera), and "Don Giovanni" (Magdeburg Opera). Rory Macdonald (conductor) Rory Macdonald (born 25 August 1980) is a Scottish conductor. Born in Stirling, Scotland, he attended Douglas Academy in Milngavie, Glasgow, and went on to read Music at Gonville and Caius