Garsington Opera
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Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras. For 21 years it was held in
Garsington Opera at Wormsley
Garsington Manor photographed in 1865 by Henry Taunt
Philharmonia Orchestra
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The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra
Garsington Opera
…Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras. For 21 years it was held in the gardens of Ingrams's home at Garsington Manor in Oxfordshire…
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gülsin Onay, 2011
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Philharmonia's first concert in 1945 (image from 1948)
Herbert von Karajan (1938 photograph)
Otto Klemperer, first principal conductor of the Philharmonia