Countryhouse festival is cut to one opera

Nevill Holt Festival, which appeared to have gone dormant, is now promising a Magic Flute next summer, along with a handful of small-scale concerts.

Here’s the PR-crafted announcement:
Nevill Holt is proud to announce an exciting new chapter in its award-winning history as it becomes Nevill Holt Festival, welcoming a lineup of internationally renowned artists to Leicestershire next June.

In order to make the festival accessible to more people and to enjoy a sustainable future, Nevill Holt Opera’s Board commissioned an extensive survey inviting audiences to share their thoughts on the organisation’s future. Drawing upon its findings, they developed a new broader festival concept for 2024 and invited Olivier and UK Theatre award-winning director and producer James Dacre and his production company, Living Productions, to curate its inaugural lineup.

Today they announce that Nevill Holt Festival 2024 will open with a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute created in partnership with Britten Sinfonia. The Festival programme will then include chamber concerts (Imogen Cooper & Sarah Connolly, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Benjamin Grosvenor, Max Richter’s Four Seasons, Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy) musical performances (Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton in A Most Marvellous Party, Michael Morpurgo in a concert version of War Horse), jazz and contemporary music (Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, Cécile McLorin Salvant & Dan Tepfer, Liane Carroll & The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars) and comedy (Mark Watson, Austentatious). Alongside, there will be a programme of conversations with leading novelists, historians, broadcasters and artists.