
I want to give my country a model of perfection... Nothing less. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it . Nobody can doubt John Christie's passion or his formidable will: his wooing of his opera singer wife has been marked by a determination befitting a man who won...

In 1934, John Christie embarks on building an opera house on his Sussex estate, his vision of the sublime realized by a group of refugees from Nazi Germany, with his wife, necessarily, cast in the lead. The Moderate Soprano tells how Glyndebourne, this most English of institutions,...