The inaugural Grange Festival opens in June 2017 under the Artistic Directorship of Michael Chance. Fiona Kimm sings Ericlea in the opening production of Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, to be directed by Tim Supple and conducted by Michael Chance. In Albert Herring, to be conducted by Steuart Bedford and directed by John Copley, Richard Pinkstone sings Albert Kathleen Wilkinson sings Mrs Herring, Alexander Robin Baker sings The Vicar and Timothy Nelson sings Sid.