Ledlanet Nights
ledlanet night kinrosshire scotland art festival operated around ten year inventive flippant little festival offered performance mounted shoestring budget held hall ledlanet home publisher john calder ledlanet night described length calder autobiography pursuit developed general festival modest beginning many art form offered among opera theatre recital orchestral concert early unexpected addition folk evening well art exhibition mix included one twoperson show different type ranging geraint evans ian wallace donald swann initially mostly produced especially ledlanet season grew ambition later show often bought tour immediate postwar period professional opera could found scotland mainly offering touring company art activity country house unknown festival generally nowhere near widespread since become opera found scotland largely edinburgh international festival scottish opera founded additional opera small scale welcomed handel work much less well known featured prominently ledlanet production including agrippina alcina jill gomez josephine barstow among several singer appearing made impression relatively early stage career il pastore una cosa rara respectively ledlanet night remained small scale even peak seat people performer audience member alike remember well intimate atmosphere little support public coffer festival heavily dependent fundraising regular patron supporter longer sustainable calder attribute sudden end ledlanet night financial consequence divorce second wife