Sing when you're winning

THE country-house opera season is almost upon us and, this year, our eyes are drawn to The Grange Festival in Hampshire, which has made radical changes to its programme and ticketing structure under the helm of new chief executive Tyler Stoops and existing artistic director Michael Chance. It was once said of The Grange, near Alresford, that ‘there is nothing finer… nothing like it on this side of Arcadia’ and it has had many reincarnations; it was a 16th-century house, the Prince Regent’s hunti...