Since 2011, when it left its original home following the death of its founder Leonard Ingrams, Garsington Opera has been based on the Getty estate at Wormsley in Buckinghamshire, said Richard Fairman in the Financial Times . "Nestled in the Chiltern Hills, with formal gardens and a full-scale cricket pitch, it has proved the ideal venue for an upmarket summer opera festival." And the festival now has the feeling of a serious operation, firing on all cylinders. Garsington Studios, its new cultural hub, is up and running (a winter season of concerts is soon to be announced). Productions of Handel's "Rodelinda" and Beethoven's "Fidelio" are in rehearsal. And the festival has opened with two similarly impressive but very different productions – the one brooding and darkly heightened; the oth

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