A SPECIAL Beethoven weekend of music and poetry was held by Garsington Opera to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
It opened with a conversation on July 5, hosted by James Naughtie with Oxford historian Professor Margaret MacMillan, writer Miranda Carter and Jeremy Paxman, and followed by a performance of Fidelio.
On the Sunday the opera at Wormsley Estate in Stokenchurch presented a cricket match, tours of the famous Getty library, a masterclass with Ann Murray and an afternoon recital by the internationally renowned cellist Steven Isserlis with Samuel West reading Siegfried Sassoon poems.
The day ended with the first concert ever on the stage at Garsington Opera, featuring Beethoven’s incidental music to Goethe’s tragedy Egmont and Schoenberg’s visceral A Survivor from Warsaw.
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