Longborough Festival Opera is an opera festival which presents a season of high quality opera in the English Cotswolds village of Longborough in North Gloucestershire each June and July. It began in 1991 as Banks Fee Opera by presenting concerts, moved forward with operas presented by a travelling company, and that was followed by converting a barn into an opera house. Audiences grew rapidly in the 1990s and, during the last decade, a focus on Wagner's operas will lead to a planned complete Ring Cycle in 2013. The present chairman of the festival is Martin Graham, the music director Anthony Negus and the artistic director is Alan Privett.
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