2017

SINCE 1998 1

1 ‘I had such a good time that I was sorely tempted to jump on stage at

the final chorus and join in’ DAILY TELEGRAPH Oliver! at Grange Park Simon Opera Keenlyside 2016. as Fagin with his gang of pickpockets WELCOME

FIVE MIRACLES HAVE TAKEN PLACE. The first was finding the magical setting of Place. Other marvels were getting planning permission to build a fabulous new opera house in the Hills, the generosity of contributors (listed later) and the pace at which Martin Smith, our builder, has been making it take shape. How convenient that all this is happening a mile from a railway station – and around the corner from the M25. Of course, the greatest miracle of all has been the exceptional philanthropy of Bamber and Christina Gascoigne. By placing their inheritance into a charitable trust, this bewitching house and grounds can now be enjoyed forever by many people from all walks of life. Such miracles are cause for celebration and I do hope you will join us. Of course, the new can be frightening so it will be blended with familiar old friends: the seats – originally from the Royal Opera House – have come with us, as have the Indian pavilions, the chandeliers and the much-loved train set. At the heart of the experience is music. On June 8, will open in its new home with , and to sing for us we have captured the superstar, . Joseph is one of a firmament that will be performing this season: Natalya Romaniw is in the title role of Janacek’s Jenufa (written at the same time as Tosca and with a similarly lavish orchestral palette), while for Wagner’s epic Die Walküre, American tenor Bryan Register will sing Siegmund opposite Rachel Nichols whose performances throughout Europe have been the talk of the EU. The icing on the cake is an evening with two superstars: Zenaida Yanowsky, Principal Artist with the Royal Ballet, and our patron, recently-knighted – who kindly said that he found singing with Grange Park Opera “life-affirming”. Thank you to all who have helped – both now and since 1998. We have stepped into a fairy tale. Come and join us.

Wasfi Kani Chief Exective, Grange Park Opera

3 START PERFORMANCE TIME JUNE 2017

THU 8 6 PM TOSCA

SAT 10 6 PM TOSCA

SU N 11 6 PM JENUFA

THU 15 6 PM TOSCA

FRI 16 6 PM BRYN & ZEN

SAT 17 6 PM JENUFA

SUN 18 6 PM TOSCA

THU 22 6 PM TOSCA

FRI 23 6 PM JENUFA

SAT 24 6 PM TOSCA

WED 28 6 PM TOSCA

THU 29 4 PM WALKÜRE

FRI 30 6 PM TOSCA JULY 2017

SAT 1 4 PM WALKÜRE

SUN 2 6 PM TOSCA

WED 5 4 PM WALKÜRE

THU 6 6 PM JENUFA

SAT 8 6 PM JENUFA

SUN 9 4 PM WALKÜRE

WED 12 4 PM WALKÜRE

SAT 15 4 PM WALKÜRE

START TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE All performances end before 10pm. Monday-Saturday: there are five trains after 10pm from Horsley station to London. Sunday: there are two trains (10.30 and 11pm). ‘ Plucky companyPlucky Goliath slays operatic an brutally convincing’ brutally and gruesome gripping, Carlo: ‘Don FINANCIAL TIMES ’

Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera 2016 ‘Hope is a waking dream’ ARISTOTLE Jenufa

Music by LEOS JANACEK (1854 – 1928) Opera in three acts | First performance 21 January 1904, Brno Theatre Libretto by Janacek, based on the play Její pastorkyna by Gabriela Preissová

PRODUCTION ORIGINATES FROM WELSH NATIONAL OPERA (1998)

IN A VILLAGE IN RUSTIC MORAVIA the hapless Jenufa nurses her passion for her cousin, Steva. She is also carrying his child. Add a jealous half-brother and a conflicted stepmother into the mix and it adds up to an explosive drama. And that’s even before the winter ice melts to reveal a terrible secret. Regarded as one of Janacek’s masterpieces, Jenufa is music drama at its most intense and devastating, composed in the months preceding his daughter’s death.

THE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conductor William Lacey Natalya Romaniw Jenufa sponsor Judith Lawless & Kevin Egan Director Katie Mitchell Revival Director Robin Tebbutt Nicky Spence Steva sponsor John & Carol Wates Designer Vicki Mortimer Susan Bullock Kostelnicka Lighting Design Nigel Edwards Co Chvila Anonymous Andrew Rees Laca Jihoon Kim Mayor Anne-Marie Owens Grandmother Jano Eleanor Garside

Foreman Harry Thatcher 7 ‘I lived for art, I lived for love . . . I helped people of misfortune . . . I decorated the altar with flowers . . . I gave jewels for the Madonna’s mantle . . . I gave music to the sky and stars . . . Why, my God, do you reward me thus?’ FLORIA TOSCA, ACT 2 VISSI D’ARTE Tosca

Music by (1858 – 1924) Opera in three acts | First performance 14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome Libretto by Illica & Giacosa based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou

SPONSORED BY ICAP PLC

ROME, 1800. The opera singer, Floria Tosca, has two admirers. One is Mario Cavaradossi, a painter – and the man she loves. The other is the Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia, who wants them both: Tosca in his bed and Cavaradossi dead. Political tensions and personal passions collide; Tosca will pay the ultimate price. Superstar tenor Joseph Calleja takes the role of Cavaradossi opposite Ekaterina Metlova, who will sing Tosca, in this most passionate and dramatic of operas.

THE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conductor Gianluca Marciano Ekaterina Metlova Tosca sponsor Sue Lawson and Director Peter Relton Anthony & Carolyn Townsend Designer Francis O’Connor Vissi d’arte David & Clare Kershaw Lighting Design David Plater Joseph Calleja Cavaradossi sponsor François Freyeisen & Shunichi Kubo E lucevan le stelle Diane & Christopher Sheridan The firing squad Adam & Lucy Constable The Attavanti Fan Rosie Faunch Roland Wood Baron Scarpia His head Brian & Jennifer Ratner His body & legs John L Pemberton Jihoon Kim Angelotti sponsor Jeremy & Rosemary Farr Simon Wilding Sacristan 9 sponsor Noreen Doyle ‘He had reached that moment in life when a man abandons himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.’ MARGUERITE YOURCENAR, MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN Die Walküre

Music by (1813 – 1883) Music drama in three acts | First performance 26 June 1870, Munich Libretto by Richard Wagner, based on Norse myths

SUPPORTED BY A SYNDICATE LED BY DAVID & AMANDA LEATHERS WITH SIR WIN & LADY BISCHOFF

FAMED FOR THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES, Die Walküre contains some of the most compelling vocal music ever written – as well as two of Wagner’s most sympathetic characters, Siegmund and Sieglinde. While taking shelter from a raging storm, Siegmund chances upon Sieglinde, his long-lost twin sister. Their forbidden love unleashes a chain of events that culminates in the collapse of the old order.

THE BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor Stephen Barlow Sieglinde Director Stephen Medcalf Bryan Register Siegmund Winterstürme Mr & Mrs Grant Gordon Set Designer Jamie Vartan The sword Mrs T Landon Lighting Design David Plater Alan Ewing Hunding Thomas Hall Wotan Wotan’s Farewell Katie Bradford VALKYRIES Fricka Mari Wyn Williams, Becca Mariott, Tanya Hurst, Jane Dutton Brünnhilde War es so schmählich Gemma Morsley, Morag Boyle, Stephen Gosztony & Sue Butcher Anne-Marie Owens, Felicity Buckland, Laura Easton 11 ‘It is a blessing to give’ TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN Bryn Terfel SINGS Zenaida Yanowsky DANCES

SUPPORTED BY JAMES & BÉATRICE LUPTON

TWO FITTINGLY GRAND superstars welcome you to the opening season of our new opera house. Spanish dancer Zenaida Yanowsky comes from a family of dancers. Since 2001 she has been a Principal Artist at the Royal Ballet. Her many roles include Odette/Odile Swan Lake, Sylvia, Sugar Plum Fairy Nutcracker, Queen of Hearts Alice’s Adventures and Paulina Winter’s Tale. Bryn’s triumphant performances of was seen by 5,000 people during our 2015 season and a further 6,000 at the BBC Proms, where tickets sold out in two hours. 95,000 tuned into the live radio broadcast. For one night only, with pianist Iain Burnside, Bryn and Zenaida present an Photograph Rick Guest intimate evening to remember.

‘Singing with Grange Park Opera is life- affirming. These are people who want to bring a new generation to opera on and off the stage. I will be joining them on their journey.’ SIR BRYN TERFEL, APPEAL PATRON 13 ‘a masterly Tristan . . . each act unfurling slowly towards the climax: steady, transparent, explosive’ THE OBSERVER ‘a masterly Tristan . . . each act unfurling slowly towards the climax: steady, transparent, explosive’ THE OBSERVER YOUR VISIT

WHEN TO ARRIVE THE LONG INTERVAL Guests may arrive from two hours Good music, good books, good before the opera starts. They company and good conversation explore the gardens, eat some of are leisurely pursuits that bring great their picnic, have tea or a glass happiness. (Almost) as enjoyable as of champagne. (Performance start the opera itself, the Long Interval is times on page 4). the important bit. DRESS THE RESTAURANT Guests wear something stylish. The simplest option is to make Most of the audience wear black a restaurant reservation within tie/long or short dress, but don’t be the splendour of the 500 year- afraid to stand out from the crowd: old mansion (tablecloths, gleaming we encourage creativity. cutlery, flowers). A splendid three- course menu with fine wines might BEFORE THE OPERA not equal the 35-course luncheon Pre–performance canapés and enjoyed by Henry VIII on the very champagne are served on the lawn same flagstones . . . but then tastes on the west side of the house. have changed. Fortnum & Mason tea is served in There are a number of private china cups with excellent cakes and dining rooms for parties from ten scones on the Croquet Lawn. upwards. Guests explore the walled gardens, Menus and booking details will be take a romantic stroll through the sent with your tickets. woods, linger in the orchard (where there is a 200-year-old mulberry tree and dozens of damsons, pears and apples) and discover the Lily Pond Garden. PICNIC OUTDOORS GETTING THERE FORTNUM & MASON deliver BY CAR Sat Nav KT24 6AN hampers, fresh from Piccadilly to Horsley. You can book a Raj-style The new opera house is between pavilion, or sit under an apple tree Leatherhead and , 10 in the orchard, or by the magical minutes from the intersection of crinkle-crankle wall or in the Lily the A3 and M25. Pond garden . . . or in the woods. Your guests can leave London mid- The possibilities are endless. afternoon and arrive with time for BRING YOUR OWN PICNIC a glass of champagne before the opera. Bring your own gourmet picnic. We can provide tables and chairs, A map may be downloaded from and, for a fee, a porter to carry the website and a printed version your hamper from the car park. will be sent with your tickets. There are private pavilions. BY TRAIN There’s nothing like bagging the best Horsley station is one mile spot on the grass and having your away with frequent trains from own idyll. There are stylish tables Waterloo, Vauxhall, Clapham and chairs that you are welcome to Junction (45 mins). There will be a use – free. Just make sure you get shuttle bus on performance days. there first. Woking Station is 8 miles away (25 If you bring your own furniture, it mins from London; 8 trains/hour). can only be used in the orchard. WALKING Please: no barbecues; no erected We are a short walk from Horsley structures. We aim for elegance at station – along the railway line and all times. then through estate fields. SPECIAL ACCESS We ask that guests without good mobility are accompanied. When booking please indicate (a) whether or not you require wheelchair space (b) if you have other specific seating needs. Mobility scooters may not be used.

17 TICKET PRICES

SATURDAY THE REST & BRYN+ZEN

§ STALLS, GRAND TIER BOXES (SEAT 8 & 10), BAND A § £190 £180 BALCONY BOXES (SEAT 8) Only full boxes are sold

STALLS, STALLS CIRCLE, BALCONY BAND B § £175 £165 BOXES (SEAT 8) Only full boxes are sold

STALLS, STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BAND C £160 £145 BALCONY

BAND D STALLS, STALLS CIRCLE, BALCONY £145 £125

BAND E STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER £125 £105

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BAND F £105 £105 BALCONY, ATTIC (some restricted view)

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BAND G £90 £85 BALCONY, ATTIC (some restricted view)

STALLS CIRCLE, GRAND TIER, BAND H £70 £70 BALCONY, ATTIC (some restricted view)

AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS the opera house seating had not been installed. Should we anticipate any significant changes, we will contact effected ticketholders. Keep abreast of progress at grangeparkopera.co.uk The Duchess liked sheep to graze in front of the house – and the tradition lives on SEAT MAP

THE ATTIC

BALCONY

GRAND TIER

STALLS CIRCLE

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19 HOW TO BOOK

BOOKING DATES ONLINE Supporter requests www.grangeparkopera.co.uk Monday 21 Nov 2016 BY PHONE from 10.30 am 01962 73 73 73 35 and under (Meteor) Monday to Friday, 9.30–5.30 Tuesday 7 Feb 2017 BY POST from 10.30 am Return the booking form overleaf General booking Wednesday 8 Feb 2017 IMPORTANT NOTE from 10.30 am Supporter requests received by Thursday 12 January will be CONTACT US allocated before general booking 01962 73 73 73 opens. Other bookings will be processed after 8 February 2017. [email protected]

METEORS MUSICAL CHAIRS TICKETS for 35 and under FREE TICKETS for 14-22 People of all ages are captivated by There are free seats for younger opera. It is the most expensive art people who otherwise could not form (a 60-piece orchestra, a chorus come to the opera. To apply, of 30+, not to mention technicians complete the form on the website. dealing with scenery, costumes, These tickets are subsidised by lighting etc). We don’t want money charitable trusts and ticket buyers. to be a barrier to younger people falling in love with opera. After all, they are the future. Every night (other than Saturday), there are 50 Meteor tickets @ £35. Situated in all areas of the auditorium, they can be purchased in a 24 hour window prior to general booking. All you have to do is sign up as a Meteor. It costs nothing. Photography Richard Lewisohn

BOOKING FORM | 2017 OR BOOK ONLINE AT grangeparkopera.co.uk

Send this form to NAME Grange Park Opera ADDRESS Sutton Manor Farm Bishops Sutton, Alresford SO24 0AA Tick if you would accept single seats, if necessary

POSTCODE Tick if you are in a wheelchair The website has full Gift Aid information, EMAIL Conditions of Sale and more. Or ring 01962 73 73 73 TELEPHONE

DATE NUMBER PRICE ALTERNATIVE DATES TOTAL OF TICKETS BAND SPECIAL REQUESTS JENUFA £ DIE WALKÜRE £ TOSCA £ BRYN & ZEN £ We will allocate you the best available seats in the selected Price Band If you prefer to be in a particular place, please note this in Special Requests MUSICAL CHAIRS I would like to make a contribution towards a free seat for a young person who otherwise could not come to the opera £ SUPPORT THE 2017 SEASON (if you have not already done so) The season costs far more than is received from ticket income and we depend on members to bridge the gap. They choose their tickets from November. You can jump the queue and have your £ request processed before public booking opens. Join a School of Support: Plato (£210), Archimedes (£360), Hippocrates (£690) or Glass Ceiling (£1,100) GRAND TOTAL Please send cheques for this total made payable to Grange Park Opera. If no cheque is attached, we will be in contact by phone in due course to take payment. £

23 ‘West Horsley Place is a glorious sprawling ancient house: grand but welcoming, with secret corners, aged trees, box hedges and a majestic crinkle-crankle wall’ JOANNA LUMLEY, APPEAL PATRON A NEW OPERA HOUSE THE THEATRE IN THE WOODS Late October 2016

THIS PHOTOGRAPH was taken on Tuesday 13 September, the last summer day of 2016, when only a few beams of the six miles of steel had been erected. Guildford Borough Council had granted permission on 18 May, the Secretary of State had given final approval on 31 May and building started on 20 June. By 5 September the foundations were complete (146 concrete piles of 19m) and then work began on the steel structure. By early November there will be a roof and by Christmas the theatre will be watertight. The opera house opens on 8 June 2017 and the audience will walk into the semi-circular atrium with tree- like columns soaring from floor to roof. Scaffolding will still envelop it but enough will be complete to stage magnificent operas. High on the outside wall above the main door is a balcony from which trumpeters will summon the audience to the performance – an idea inspired by (stolen from) Wagner’s Bayreuth. After the 2017 season, work resumes on the elaborate outer brick work and the decoration of the auditorium: the splendid enriched balcony fronts and a painted ceiling.

25 ‘What a treat to hear this magnificent opera so generously honoured’ DAILY TELEGRAPH AN INTRODUCTION BY BAMBER GASCOIGNE

I HAVE HAD TWO VERY GREAT SURPRISES in the past 18 months. The first was the unexpected news that I had been left, by a 99-year-old aunt, Mary Roxburghe, a beautiful house in the country. A week after her death I received a request to go to a solicitor’s office. On arrival I was handed her will. I did my best to look calm and collected while they provided a cup of coffee and biscuits. The other great surprise was provided by Grange Park Opera. A small group of their trustees paid a visit. Again over coffee and biscuits, they described their proposal and asked Christina and me if it might be acceptable. It didn’t take us long to say ‘Yes, indeed’. It isn’t every day that you are invited to have an opera house in your garden. A wrought-iron gate leads opera-goers from the semi-formal walled gardens to our orchard – a magical place of amazingly old fruit trees, perfect for a picnic. And from there a short path will take guests to the new opera house, tucked away romantically in a wood. And then the house itself. Amazing . . . and I could go on and on. But it is enough to say that the ground floor, an unbroken sequence of Tudor stone flags leading into the garden, has space for 150 people to dine in style. There has been a manor house on the estate since soon after the Norman Conquest, but the present house is a sturdy timber-frame building from about 1500. It was still virtually a new house when Henry VIII seized it and gave it in 1536 to his cousin and childhood friend, Henry Courtenay. The grateful Courtenay felt he should ask the King and his retinue to lunch in the Great Hall – an expensive undertaking. The details of the 35 courses survive. The range of birds on offer is startling – stewed sparrows, larded pheasants, ducks, gulls, stork, gannets, heron, pullets, quail and partridge. But Henry was a fickle friend. Thomas Cromwell later persuaded him that Courtenay was unreliable, with a Catholic wife, and in 1539 the King had him beheaded – a mere three years after that congenial lunch! There is no external sign now of West Horsley Place being a timber house but inside there are fascinating glimpses in doorways, staircases, wainscoting. The original oak structure is still holding up the entire building. The elegant front of the present house is, in fact, pure sham. The owner, in about 1640, seems to have decided that it was embarrassing to live in such an old house. So he went 27 for a cheap option – he commissioned the brick façade and had it screwed to the old timbers. In 1931, the Marquess of Crewe (my great-grandfather) and his second wife, Peggy, sold the great Crewe Hall in Cheshire. They had decided to ‘downsize’ and were looking for a small house in Surrey. Their searches brought them to West Horsley Place. They immediately fell under its spell, as almost everyone does, and bought it although it was, in Crewe’s biographer’s words, ‘larger than they had intended’. Beautiful, spacious and ideal for house parties and family gatherings, it was the perfect place for them to live in style in the years up to the war. The house then, as now, was full of a vast numbers of books because both Crewe and his father had been passionate collectors. Mary Crewe-Milnes, Duchess of Roxburghe (1915-2014) was a god- daughter of Queen Mary, after whom she was named. Her mother, Peggy Primrose, was the daughter of the British prime minister the Earl of Rosebery. In 1935, Mary married the dashing, eligible Duke of Roxburghe, known as Bobo, and moved to the enormous Floors Castle, in the Scottish Borders. She was living there in 1953 when Bobo had the butler serve her with divorce papers with her breakfast. The Duke told her to leave the castle but her solicitor advised her not to go quietly, pointing out that in Scots law the size of the alimony depended on how willing or unwilling the wife had been to leave. On the instructions of her counsel, she staged a ten- day sit-in which became a sensation in the national press. First the Duke sacked all the servants he could, leaving her only her lady’s maid, whom the Duchess paid herself. The huge empty castle was eerie for the two women alone, with their nights soon lit only by oil lamps after the Duke had disconnected the electricity. When he cut off the water, the solicitor said her point was made. It had been worth it – the alimony was excellent. Mary moved south and, with her mother’s death in 1967, she became châtelaine of West Horsley Place, living there for more than 40 years and playing an enthusiastic part in local activities. The Stone Hall with tudor flagstones upon which strode Henry VIII The Red Drawing Room In an act of exceptional philanthropy Bamber & Christina Gascoigne have given the house, land and ancillary buildings to The Mary Roxburghe Trust which has granted Grange Park Opera a 99 year lease – meaning a permanent home for the charity. The ashes of the Duchess of Roxburghe (above) are in a casket under the first violins. Peeping over the orchard wall, men are finishing Friday 13 January 2017. The steel for the stage has been installed the roof membrane and you can see the opening Work started on 20 June 2016. Bravo R J Smith team for the fanfare balcony SUPPORTING GRANGE PARK OPERA A MOMENT BEYOND EXCITEMENT ...... AND GRANGE PARK OPERA IS BEYOND GRATEFUL to donors of the £10m Appeal. Their rapid generosity has enabled the building to take shape very quickly.

THE HADRON COLLIDERS Michael & Hilary Cowan Clore Duffield Foundation Michael & Sarah Spencer Ronnie Frost & family Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation William Garrett Red Butterfly Foundation David & Linda Lloyd Jones

THE PIONEERS PATRON Joanna Lumley

SPUTNIK Hugh & Catherine Stevenson The Kirk Family David & Amanda Leathers Anthony & Carolyn Townsend Mr & Mrs Francis C Lang John L Pemberton Mark H Lewisohn Simon & Meg Freakley SOPWITH Oscar & Margaret Lewisohn Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Sir Gerald & Lady Acher Richard & Alex Lewisohn Ruth Markland John & Jackie Alexander Tessa & John Manser William & Kathy Charnley Vindi & Kamini Banga Darcy & Alexander Munro Stephen Gosztony & Sue Butcher Joanna Barlow Bruce & Pamela Noble Sir Henry & The Hon Lady Keswick The Buckley Family Peter & Poppity Nutting Tony & Sarah Bolton The Carole & Geoffrey Lawson Hamish Parker Foundation Stephen & Isobel Parkinson TURING David & Elizabeth Challen Cathy & Michael Pearman Mr Quentin Black Jane & Paul Chase-Gardener Lord & Lady Phillimore Michael & Julia Calvey Richard & Frances Clarke Mike & Jessamy Reynolds Samantha & Nabil Chartouni Mr & Mrs Tim Cockroft John & Pit Rink Jane & Jonathan Clarke The John S Cohen Foundation Nigel & Viv Robson Aidan & Colette Clegg Anonymous Anne & Barry Rourke Adam & Lucy Constable Mr & Mrs Leo A Daly III David & Lynneth Salisbury Peter & Annette Dart The de Laszlo Foundation Victoria & John Salkeld Sir David Davies Nick & Lesley Dumbreck Mark & Louise Seligman Peter & Manina Dicks Judith Lawless & Kevin Egan Diane & Christopher Sheridan Noreen Doyle The Ewins Family Anonymous T V Drastik Jeremy & Rosemary Farr Sir John & Lady Sunderland Niall, Ingrid & Gabriella FitzGerald Deborah & Neil Franks Andrew & Jane Sutton Alex & Alison Fortescue Christina & Bamber Gascoigne Christopher Swan François Freyeisen & Shunichi Kubo Roger & Clare Gifford Anonymous Chris & Marjorie Gibson-Smith The Gillmore Trust Adam & Louise Tyrrell Hilary Hart The Reekimlane Foundation Johnny & Marie Veeder Harry Hyman George & Caroline Goulding Rev. John Wates OBE David & Clare Kershaw Charles & Maggie Hallatt & Mrs Carol Wates Lord & Lady Marks of Broughton The Hon Charles Harris Mr David & Mrs Alison Watson Rothschild & Co Malcolm Herring Keith & Katy Weed Mr & Mrs Matthias Ruhland Dr Jonathan Holliday Anonymous Lord & Lady Sassoon & Dr Gwen Lewis Edward & Mandy Weston Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Richard & Pamela Jacobs Linda Wilding Voluntary Settlement Raymonde Jay Jane & Andrew Winch Ed & Lulu Siskind Keith & Lucy Jones Martin & Lucy Stapleton The Justham Trust 33 THE CIRCLE OF VIRTUOUS ENTERPRISE PATRON Sir Bryn Terfel

A 99-year lease makes this a theatre for many generations to come. The Circle comprises 500 people contributing at the entry level (currently £2,750). People are allotted a number in order of joining and will be acknowledged on a scroll in the theatre for 20 years. Why not take places for your children or grandchildren?

1 Bryn Terfel 55 David & Peta Crowther 107 Mr Victor Coles 164 Cilla & John Slater 2 Wasfi Kani 56 Liz & Mike Cooper-Mitchell 108 David & Virginia Essex 165 Mr & Mrs L Vine-Chatterton 3 Alexander & Mary Creswell 57 Anonymous 109 Mr & Mrs David Blackburn 166 – 170 Anonymous 4 Mr & Mrs David Ibeson 58 Dr Henry & Mrs Julia Pearson 110 Andrew Luff 171 Peter & Katie Gray 5 Ms Nicola A. Freshwater 59 Mrs Margaret Green 111 & 112 Diana & Terence Kyle 172 Mr David Gutman 6 Mr & Mrs Graham West 60 Helen Culleton 113 Mr Julian Hardwick 173 David & Alex Rhodes 7 Jean & Richard Baldwin 61 Peter & Marie-Claire Wilson 114 Mr & Mrs Peter Leaver 174 Charlie Chase-Gardener 8 Hilary & James Leek 62 Mrs Margaret Bolam 115 John Kessler 175 Lucy Chase-Gardener 9 Adam & Carola Lee 63 Mrs Elizabeth Vyvyan 116 Angela Kessler 176 Mr Josh Holliday 10 Christopher & Tineke Stewart 64 Mr Brian Boyce 117 Mr Habib Motani 177 Mr Tom Holliday 11 Miss Pamela M North 65 Mrs Judith Boyce 118 Miss Elizabeth Cretch 178 Peter & Brenda Berners-Price 12 Tony Legge 66 Anonymous 119 Anonymous 179 Miss Rula Al-Adasani MBE 13 Anonymous 67 Mr & Mrs S R Jeffreys 120 David & Vivienne Woolf 180 Helen Dorey 14 Mrs Susan Lochner JP DL 68 Christopher Jack 121 Mr Julian Stanford & Markus Geisser 15 Harry & Ellen Thurman & Stephanie Sfakianos 122 – 124 James & Béatrice Lupton 181 Mrs Tim Landon 16 Roger & Jackie Morris 69 Robin & Anne Purchas 125 Mina & Suzanne Goodman 182 Hugh & Mary Boardman 17 Peter & Irene Casey 70 Laura & Andrew Sykes 126 Mrs Carolyn Conlan 183 Stephen & Nilda Ginn 18 George Kingston 71 Anonymous 127 Dominic & Katherine Powell 184 Tom & Sarah Grillo 19 – 23 Gerry & Joyce Acher’s 72 Mr Adrian Knowles 128 Mrs Laurence Colchester 185 Dr Tom McClintock grandchildren 73 Mrs Tikki Adorian 129 Mr Mark & Mrs Sue Luboff 186 Richard & Miriam Borchard 24 Peter & Jacquie Homonko 74 Laurence & Janey Langford 130 Julian G Jones 187 Chris & Miranda Ward 25 Mrs Alyson Wilson 75 Paul Batchelor 131 Ian & Helen Andrews 188 Mr Peter Linacre 26 James & Helena Watson 76 Janet Batchelor 132 David & Elizabeth Pritchard 189 William & Felicity Mather 27 Mr & Mrs William Witts 77 Miss Deborah Finkler 133 Anne Howells & Steve Clarke190 Nicholas & Jane St Aubyn 28 Liz & Nigel Peace & Mr Allan Murray-Jones 134 Hugh Fagan 191 Mr & Mrs Barry Bramley 29 Jane Poulter 78 Mr & Mrs John Colwell 135 Crispin Cazalet 192 Mr Ian Coutts-Wood 30 Angela & David Harvey 79 Dr Jonathan Holliday 136 Antoni & Caroline Daszewski 193 Oliver & Felicity Wethered 31 Mrs Annabel Allott & Dr Gwen Lewis 137 Dr Anthony Smoker 194 The O’Hea family 32 Ian & Clare Maurice 80 Sharon Pipe 138 Mr & Mrs Max Ulfane 195 J & V Knox 33 Nick & Sarah Treble 81 Martin & Brigitte Skan 139 Clive & Helena Butler 196 Mr Andrew Simon 34 David & Fiona Taylor 82 Dr Patrick Mill 140 Jill & Mike Pullan 197 Anonymous 35 Paul Drury & Anna McPherson83 Jeanette Mill 141 Nick Viner & Victoria Boyarsky 198 Anonymous 36 George & Marie Rushton 84 Dr Peter Harrison & Verity Jones142 Mr & Mrs John Tremlett 199 The One Style Tour 37 Peter & Marianne Hooley 85 The Fischer Fund 143 Edwina Sassoon 200 Bruce & Bridget Montgomery 38 Mark & Rosemary Carawan 86 Bill Bougourd & Judith Thomas144 Christopher & Clare McCann201 Oliver & Rebecca Huggins 39 Sir Anthony & Lady Cleaver 87 Iain & Mary Rhind 145 Michael de Navarro 202 Ms Morfydd Evans 40 Ernst Uwe Hanneck 88 Mrs Michael Beresford-West 146 Emily, Victoria & Isobel Battcock 203 Christina & Timothy Benn & Karin Mueller 89 Mr Mat Kirk & Mrs Sam Kirk 147 Christian & Katie Wells 204 Prudence & Kevan Watts 41 Madeleine & Stephen McGairl 90 & 91 The Foxley Trust 148 Mr & Mrs Angel 205 Bobasch Joel Foundation 42 Antonia Murphy 92 Peter Kerfack & Russell Townend149 Austin & Ragna Erwin 206 Veronica Powell & Clare Bevan 93 Andrew & Jane Sutton 150 Charles Alexander 207 Anonymous 43 Dame Janet Gaymer 94 George Meagher & Kasia Starega 208 Sue & Graham White 44 Mr John Gaymer 95 Jack Gardener 151 Alan Thomas 209 Sir Rupert & Lady Jackson 45 Dr Martin Read 96 Jan & Michael Potter 152 Jerry & Clare Wright 210 Angela & Clive Gilchrist & Dr Marian Gilbart Read 97 Mr & Mrs Henry Lumley 153 Sue & Peter Morgan 211 Michael & Nirmala Rappolt 46 Siân & Ben Tyler 98 Sir Michael Parker 154 Sue & Peter Paice 212 Patricia & Richard Millett 47 Sally Phillips 99 Lady Parker 155 Dieter & Lesley Losse 213 Mr Graham Elliott 48 Tristan Wood 100 Miss Lily Bagwell Purefoy 156 Mr Charles Rosier & Mrs Emma Crabtree 49 Dr Carolyn Greenwood 101 Pam Alexander 157 Anonymous 214 John & Susan Burns & John McVittie & Roger Booker 158 Professor Heather Joshi CBE 215 Hilary & Barney II Myerscough 50 Eliza Mellor 102 Dr & Mrs G M Tonge 159 Dr Barbara Domayne-Hayman 216 Michael & Allie Eaton 51 Andrew & Marian Sanders 103 Simon & Rosemary Godfrey 160 Mr Hugh Gammell 217 Lady Purves 52 William & Kitty Vaughan 104 Rob & Felicity Shepherd 161 Anonymous 218 Ms Carolyn Saunders 53 David & Sarah Rosier 105 June, Dyrol & Becky Lumbard162 Neil & Elizabeth Johnson & Mr Richard Ford 54 John & Cecilia Gordon 106 Janet Mernane 163 Eleanor G Berry 219 The Tickner Family 220 Nigel Silby 252 Paul Coleman DL 294 Bruce & Roma Hooper 328 Handa Bray 221 Andy & Estelle Los 253 Mrs Jeanette Bird 295 Oliver & Emma Pawle 329 Dame Sarah Goad 222 Ben & Christina Perry 254 Toby & Jennifer Greenbury 296 The McGinley Foundation 330 Penny Proudlock 223 Richard & Sally Nield 255 Anthony & Fiona Littlejohn 297 Zsalya 331 Andrew & Alison Hutton 224 Mr & Mrs John Jarvis 256 David Alan Foster 298 Jonathan & Sarah Bayliss 332 Alan & Sheena Kingsley 225 Mrs Juliet Dunsmure 257 Dr John Grimshaw 299 Julie Joy Jarman & Jack Pickard 333 Felix Appelbe 226 Ian & Wendy Sampson 258 Baroness Patience Wheatcroft 300 Miranda Robinson 334 Valerie & Peter Hewett 227 Felix Appelbe 259 Victoria Gath & Mark Echlin 301 Jeremy Lewis Simons 335 Mollie & John Julius Norwich 228 George & Veronique Seligman 260 Peter & Angela Granger 302 Christopher & Sarah Smith 336 Malcolm & Gill Aish 229 Clementine Wyke 261 – 265 Jenny Bland 303 Nick & Anne Driver 337 Fiona & William Alexander 230 The Lady Heseltine 266 Ms Melinda Hughes 304 Nicholas & Linda Payne 338 Ludlow, Fenston 231 Adair Turner & 267 Paul & Lydia Goodson 305 Mike Hendry & Cassar Morris Orna NiChionna 268 Bruce & Lizzie Powell 306 Christopher Reeves 339 Mr Robert G Williams 232 Fiona & Peter Hare 269 – 272 Anonymous Memorial Trust 340 Barry & Dee Jones 233 Peter & Rosemary Derby 273 Sir John & Lady Hood 307 Derek & Lynda Rapport 341 Mr & Mrs Christopher 234 Kathrine Palmer 274 John & Elizabeth Maycock 308 Mr Per Jonsson Lambourne 235 Nigel & Johanna Stapleton 275 Pam & John Bevington 309 Mr & Mrs Haydn Abbott 342 Mr & Mrs Neil Donnan 236 Mr Andrew & Mrs Jill Soundy 276 Susanne & Jeffrey Nedas 310 David & Deborah Stileman 343 Fran & Mike Pattinson 237 Mark & Alva Powell 277 Dr Ann Williams 311 Robert & Judith Hart 344 Sir David & Lady Prosser 238 Tamara Mitchel 278 Tony & Valerie Thompson 312 Jeffrey & Vivien Sultoon 345 Tom & Alison Baigrie 239 John Derrick & Preben Oeye 279 Rosie Faunch 313 Olivier Bourgois & Alice Goldet 346 George & Jane Boden 240 Shirley & Brian Carte 280 Hugh & Claire Peppiatt 314 Mr Roderick Davidson 347 Jean & David Poole 241 Sir Peter & Lady Cazalet 281 Mr & Mrs Andrew Frost 315 Anthony Bunker 348 S F G Fachada & J H Breck 242 Prof Mark & Dr Gill Britton 282 Sir David & Lady Normington 316 Anonymous 349 Martyn & Karen Brabbins 243 John & Trudi Harris 283 Ione Woollacott 317 Mr & Mrs Leprince Jungbluth 350 Simon & Sally Borrows 244 Longina Boczon 284 Ron & Pennie Zimmern 318 Brian, Jennifer & Ben Ratner 351 David & Madeleine Cannon 245 David & Frances Waters 285 Jocelin & Cherry Harris 319 Prof Neil & Dr Jane Mortensen 352 Tulchan Communications LLP 246 Polizzi Charitable Trust 286 Jilly Allenby-Ryan 320 David Buchler 353 John & Jane Harrap 247 Anne & Alistair Calder 287 Nicole Hutchings 321 Anonymous 354 Malcolm & Anita Paul 248 Nerissa Guest 288 The Peak Family 322 Mr Lawrence M. Eagles 355 Martin & Sarah Young 249 Mr & Mrs F A Wilson 289 Mr Michael & Mrs Julia Kerby 323 Mrs Margaret Green 356 Richard & Patricia Holden 250 Prof Graham Layer 290 Christopher & Georgie Birrell 324 Paul & Ursula Manduca 357 Peter & Carol Cordrey & Dr Jenny Sillick 291 Stuart Errington CBE DL 325 Michael & Sarah Hewett 358 Chris & Clare Mathias 251 Ms Jane Jenkins 292 Lord & Lady Woolton 326 The Houston Family 359, 360 Gay Huey-Evans & Mr Oscar Harrison-Hall 293 Robert & Felicity Waley-Cohen 327 Roy & Frances O’Gorman 361 Mr Peter Gray

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