In January 1934, the Sussex Agricultural Express reported that two cows owned by ‘Captain Christie’ of Glyndebourne were trophy winners at a local show. On 25 May, the same journal raised readers’ sights a little higher by observing that John Christie’s new opera house at Glyndebourne ‘may… one day be the Mecca of opera lovers in this country’.
A former Eton scienceHenderson recalled 50 years later that ‘everybody thought it was crazy’.
