The Ash Lawn Opera Festival is vacating its home of the past three decades, relocating to the by-then-renovated Jefferson Theater on the Downtown Mall.

Held since 1978 at Ash Lawn-Highland, James Monroe’s 535-acre farm in Albemarle County, the Ash Lawn Opera Festival is expected to relocate to an as-yet-to-be-determined indoor venue by next summer’s opera season.

Let’s put the rumors to rest.
  Ash Lawn Opera will be at Ash Lawn
... at least this year.