Longborough Festival Opera
Longborough Festival Opera is a summer opera festival in the English Cotswolds village of Longborough in north Gloucestershire. It can trace its routes back to 1991 as a series of concerts in the home of founders property developer Martin Graham and his wife Elizabeth. Although Martin Graham died in 2025, the organisation is still run by the family, with Elizabeth as director and trustee, her son Leo also a trustee, and her daughter Polly as artistic director.
Beginnings
Longborough Festival Opera began as Banks Fee Opera, named after the Graham's family home. It soon moved from the main house to a temporary stage in the courtyard of the stable block, with productions supplied by Travelling Opera, a small touring opera company.The Grahams sold Banks Fee in the mid-1990s and moved to a house they'd built nearby. In 1998 they started their own productions, ending their relationship with the touring company and moving to a converted barn in the grounds of their new home.