There are few places more beautiful than the valley of The Grange on a summer evening, looking across the fields over the Baring’s estate with its nineteenth-century planting, some of which presumably dates back to the 1820s when Alexander Baring, the first Lord Ashburton, added the conservatory which is now the opera house.   I went for the first night of Eugene Onegin, a wonderful opera, so full of drama and tragic misunderstanding.

This is the view from the Indian tent where we drank champagne and had tea after the performance:-