The most intriguing of the three operas staged this autumn is a world premiere adaptation, by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Rachael Hewer, of Edith Nesbit’s classic The Railway Children, transposed to the Cold War era. There are also re-runs of Peter Hall’s 1981 staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Floris Visser’s 2022 […]
This year’s summer festival at the historic opera house opens with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Sevilla (May 16-July 3) followed by the first-ever Glyndebourne staging of Wagner’s psychological drama Parsifal (May 17- June 24). Later on in the summer we can look forward to Handel’s Saul, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Verdi’s Falstaff and Janáček’s […]
This is a festive mix of sing-along carols, orchestral showpieces and opera highlights performed by the Glyndebourne Chorus and Glyndebourne Sinfonia. Look out for the hour-long Chilled Christmas Celebration (Dec 14) in which the audience is welcome to move about the auditorium and – normally a big no-no – chat about the performance while it’s […]
There are revivals of two much-loved Italian operas this autumn, namely Verdi’s ever-popular La Traviata (originally performed in 2014) and Rossini’s comedy Il Turco in Italia (2021). There’s also a series of concerts, beginning with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, coupled with Tippett’s A Child of our Time (Oct 29 – Nov 1). Tune in at […]
Two of this summer’s operas have been retained for Glyndebourne’s Autumn Festival (replacing their cancelled annual Tour): Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elesire d’amore. Early-bird ROSA readers, please note there will be two family open days, offering the chance to participate in the construction of an outdoor theatre installation with ROSA’s Leap then Look, among […]
