From Boughton, we went over the border to Leicestershire, where David Ross has constructed a spectacular, small opera house in the old seventeenth-century stables attached to a large, sprawling manor house, which was previously a naughty prep school:-

The opera house has been designed – beautifully – by Witherford Watson Mann, intimate and heavily wooded.   We saw Antony McDonald’s stylish production of Thomas Adès’s Powder My Face and had supper in the kitchen garden:-