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  • The English Garden

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    May 22, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS

    ON GOLDEN EVENINGS THIS SUMMER, the dramatic, compelling notes of Don Giovanni will spill out over the Opera Garden as Wormsley hosts the 30th annual Garsington Opera season. Mozart’s two-act piece about Don Juan, the fabled libertine and seducer, was first performed in Prague in 1787 to great acclaim and has remained one of the world’s most popular operas ever since.

    At the time of that première, in the wooded flint and chalk hills of the Chilterns, Wormsley in Buckinghamshire was already around 600 years old. In the 16th-century the estate belonged to John Scrope, but passed through his sister to become the property of the Fanes. John Fane, born in 1749, became the 10th Earl of Westmorland and famously

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