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...GARSINGTON OPERA The auditorium on the terrace at 17th century Garsington Manor, just outside Oxford, seats around 500. You can eat in the restaurant, order a picnic or bring your own. Dine in the all-weather tents or the Italian gardens with their yew hedges, statues and water features, which are sometimes used as scenery for productions. The 2007 season includes Richard Strauss's modern take on Greek mythology, Ariadne auf Naxos...
...GLYNDEBOURNE Not far from Lewes, West Sussex, is a Tudor mansion with its own opera house. It lives up to its founder's aim to provide "not just the best that can be done, but the best that can be done anywhere." Bring a picnic; eat in the tearoom or restaurants (named after Hampshire villages Over, Middle and Nether Wallop); or order a gourmet hamper. If it rains, retreat to the big tent or the theater's covered exterior gallery. The lush walled English gardens are worth a stroll, and you may find a sheep eyeing your dinner, as there...
...GRANGE PARK OPERA Near Winchester in Hampshire, the theater is a converted orangery, the mansion itself houses the restaurant. Fields and woods make the perfect backdrop for a picnic - eat in the big tent or a private Indian pavilion (but make note: if you bring more than one servant, you must book a separate pavilion for them). At season's end, some productions move briefly to Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, a medieval house with a theater in the old stables. Rare treats this season are Michel Legrand's 1964 marriage-of-convenience saga Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Sergei Prokofiev...
...music became another type of escape. He took singing lessons and taught himself to play piano; a severe dyslexic, Mika is unable to read music. His first proper gig was, aged 11, in the choir in Richard Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten at London's Royal Opera House. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music. At night, he worked on his pop songs or waited tables to pay the studio bills. Eventually a record company showed interest - but only if he did as he was told. "I wrote Grace Kelly as a kind of reaction...
...allegations have prompted calls for Katsav to quit. The president's lawyers dismiss the charges as false, alleging that they were trumped up by his political enemies. Earlier, Katsav had accused "A" of trying to blackmail him. Stay tuned for what promises to be a long-running political soap opera...