Garsington Opera, founded by Leonard Ingrams in 1989, stages its 2027 season in a six-hundred-seat pavilion on the Wormsley Estate.
Garsington Opera stages its 2027 season in a 600-seat pavilion at Garsington Opera at Wormsley, near Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, from Wednesday 26 May to Wednesday 28 July.
Leonard Ingrams started the company in 1989 in the garden of his own house, an Oxfordshire manor that had been Ottoline Morrell’s and the Bloomsbury group’s before him. It ran there for 21 summers.
After his death the company moved, and since 2011 it has been at Wormsley, the Getty family’s estate in the Chilterns. Its pavilion was built for it and opens onto the park and the deer.
With 600 seats, the singers do not have to push, and a temporary structure in a deer park makes a different evening from an opera house. The company commissions new work and runs a youth company. It gives young British singers principal roles two or three years before the larger houses do.
Wormsley is about an hour from London, and the performance is on the estate rather than in a town. The interval and the grounds are part of the evening. Full casting for the 2027 season is published in October 2026.