Grange Park Opera
Arts as a Driver of Social Change
Grange Park Opera is one of the major summer opera seasons in Europe.
Founded in 1998 by Wasfi Kani CBE, Grange Park Opera has staged more than 80 operas, including the acclaimed productions of Rusalka, Tristan und Isolde, Peter Grimes, and Fiddler on the Roof with Bryn Terfel at the BBC Proms.
Grange Park Opera is situated in West Horsley Place, a 350-acre estate with an historically significant 14th century house surrounded by formal gardens.
The house was inherited in 2015 by author and broadcaster Bamber Gascoigne from his aunt Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe. He gifted the estate to the West Horsley Place Trust.
In eleven months, Wasfi Kani and her team built a five-storey opera house modelled on La Scala, Milan, seating 700 with some funding support from The Banga Family Trust. Its sister charity Pimlico Opera works in prisons and primary schools.