American Friends of Grange Park Opera

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ABOUT GRANGE PARK OPERA MAKE A DONATION

AFGPO is a US registered 501(c)3 charity.  

EIN number: 82-3377744

It supports the work of Grange Park Opera near London and enables donations to be made in a tax-efficient manner.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

In June 2017, after a year of frantic building and fundraising, Grange Park Opera (founded 1998) opened the doors of the new Opera House in the Surrey Hills on the edge of London…

Since 1998, Grange Park Opera has:

  • presented superstars including Bryn Terfel, Joseph Calleja, Joyce Di Donato and Simon Keenlyside
  • raised £14m to build a five-tier horseshoe Opera House, modelled on La Scala in Milan, an epic lavatory block (the Lavatory Rotundum) and a Treetop Studio floating in the sky, looking over the 350-acre estate
  • given over 600 performances and aired lesser-known works including Thaïs, Don Quichotte (Massenet), Carmélites (Poulenc) and Enchantress (Tchaikovsky)
  • hosted world premières including Pushkin (Boyarsky) and The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko (Bolton)
  • pioneered young audiences and nurtured younger artists with scholarships
  • appeared at the BBC Proms

Grange Park Opera is UK charity no. 1068046 founded in 1998. It receives no government subsidy.

DIRECTORS

Marie Veeder (President)
Lee Cervantes Millbern (Treasurer)
Noreen Doyle (Secretary)

CONTACT

Marie Veeder mlveeder@aol.com

BANKERS

J P MORGAN