The Grange Festival 2025

Peter Anderson
June 7, 2025

The Grange Festival,on until 6th July, welcomes a new Chief Executive this year. This first programme from Tyler Stoops, has already driven record ticket sales for the Festival, tracking 76% ahead of paid ticket sales at this time last year. In addition to the ambitious change in programming, pricing for the Festival has been entirely redesigned, with a broader range of prices available.

Queen at the Operais a one-of-a-kind concert marking 50 years of Queen’s legendary album A Night at the Opera, which introduced the world to Bohemian Rhapsody, and celebrates the connections between opera and the music of Queen and Freddie Mercury. Following two sell-out performances, an additional date has been added on 19 June.

West End and rock singers Jon Boydon (Heathers the Musical, Mamma Mia!); Peter Eldridge; Jenna Lee-James (Disney’s Frozen); and Rachael Wooding (We Will Rock You, Standing at the Sky’s Edge), join multi-skilled opera singers Jordan Pitts (featured on France’s Got Talent ‘La France a un incroyable talent‘ as drag persona Creatine Price); Nikola Printz (San Francisco Opera, Opera Memphis); and Ann Toomey (Glyndebourne, Lyric Opera of Chicago) in an eclectic blending of repertoire which highlights the connections between these music genres. Queen at the Opera is conducted by Edwin Outwater (5, 8 June) and Pete Harrison (19 June) and features the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Bernstein on Broadway presents thrilling selections from the great composer’s theatrical output, including West Side Story, Candide, On the Town and Wonderful Town.

Musical theatre stars Julian Ovenden (South Pacific), Elèna Gyasi (Mean Girls, Six), Gabriela Garcia (In the Heights, Rent), and Lewis Francis (Miss Saigon, Mamma Mia!) join opera singers Claudia Boyle (Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera, Semperoper Dresden) and Trystan Llŷr Griffiths (Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence). The concert features the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and The Grange Festival Chorus led by Grammy Award-winning conductor Karen Kamensek (Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Semperoper Dresden).

Alongside these genre-blending concert programmes, The Grange Festival presents three staged opera productions, two more concerts.

Opera includes a new La Traviata (image above)For tickets and full infomration, please check out their website which is the bestselling production The Grange Festival has ever presented and a new Baroque-meets-street-dance staging of Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes, presented in collaboration with leading baroque ensemble Cappella Mediterranea, who will take the work to Teatro Real in Madrid and Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
The final casting for a stylish new production of Die Fledermaus performed in English has also been announced with Andrew Hamilton joining the cast as Eisenstein and drag queen Myra Dubois performing the role of Frosh.
Concerts also include the Meath Gala, a star-studded recital in aid of The Meath Epilepsy Charity and Summertime Swing, a jazz evening of American Songbook classics from Dutch jazz sensation Fay Claassen and the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw.