Vert-Vert , Garsington Opera Pavilion, Wormsley Estate, Oxford
Garsington Opera Pavilion, Wormsley Estate, Oxford: Continuing its founder Leonard's Ingrams's questing spirit for neglected corners of the repertoire, Garsington Opera gives the UK premiere production of Offenbach's comic opera Vert-Vert. The title refers to the recently deceased pet parrot, mollycoddled by the young convent school pupils in Saint-Remy, whose role is assumed by the timid Valentin. Re…