We went last night to Katya Kabanova at Grange Park Opera, a brilliant production directed by David Alden. It didn’t seem quite as far as I thought and the theatre – the theatre in the woods – now feels so much more established in its setting in the woods behind West Horsley Place. It’s a credit to Wasfi Kani and to the remarkable craft skills of its builder Martin Smith of R.J. Smith & Co, who built it at such speed in 2017, a version of La Scala in Surrey:-


