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We weren't planning to spill the beans about this project so soon, but it has just been shortlisted for an exciting development prize, ...

I've done an interview for SWAP'ra , the new charity which aims to change the opera world to make it more user-friendly, all rou...

Pop over to the BBC Arts website and experience the story behind Silver Birch , the opera by Roxanna Panufnik and muggins for Garsington Ope...

Curtain calls...in front, Roxanna (right) and me, with Jay Wheeler in the middle I've been away since just after the last night of ...

And here she is: our SILVER BIRCH composer, the fabulous Roxanna Panufnik. You've heard a lot from me already about the words and the...

Sam Furness as Jack, in Iraq shirt; Bradley Travis as Siegfried in WWI uniform We had the dress rehearsal yesterday. Today everybody ge...

Here's Garsington's introduction to Silver Birch, with director Karen Gillingham, conductor Douglas Boyd and choreographer Natasha ...

Baritone Bradley Travis in rehearsal as Siegfried Sassoon What are the chances of this? You turn up to an adult community chorus works...

SILVER BIRCH IS SOLD OUT! The first night is two weeks from today, up at Garsington Opera, Wormsley, near High Wycombe. Keep trying for ret...

"One chance to do something brave..." It's all happening. On Saturday I went along to High Wycombe to see a rehearsal o...

Sam Furness (tenor), who sings our hero, Jack Exciting times here as summer approaches and the Garsington Opera team gears up for the wo...

The Silver Birch youth company in rehearsal The Oxford Times has run a preview of our Garsington opera, Silver Birch (music by Roxanna...