An Essex landowner has built an opera house in the middle of the countryside that will showcase some of the great operattas and classical works this summer.
Christopher Stewart-Smith has converted a barn into an amphitheatre that should prove a magnet for orchestras from all over the globe.
Some of the works that will be featured this year include :
The Garage of Figaro
The Tractor of Seville
Madame Buttermilk
Night On A Bare Groundsheet
Nissan Doormat
The Shitting Beauty
Duck Lake
Pitchers At An Exhibition
In The Hall Of The Mountin' Subsidy
Peter And The Fox
Skitters' Waltz
Colonel Bogey March