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Two country house opera venues are staging Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ and Verdi’s ‘Un ballo in maschera’
The settings may be tranquil, but Britain’s country-house music events are highly competitive
The countertenor range of the male voice was long considered weird, spooky, disturbingly androgynous
Summer festival company to leave neo-Grecian temple after rent dispute with Baring family
The accompanist was joined by a starry cast of colleagues in a concert with a playful mood
Stephen Medcalf’s staging underlines the simplicity of Gluck’s musico-dramatic schema
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