The Glyndebourne Festival has announced its Autumn 2026 season which will run between Oct. 14 and Dec. 13, 2026.

The season will open with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.”

There will also be concert performances of Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet (fantasy overture)” and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, plus the world premiere of “Spark,” a newly-commissioned youth opera by composer Lucy Armstrong with a libretto by Olivia Bell.

The Autumn Season 2026 will close with the return of the ever-popular Christmas Concerts in December.

In a statement Artistic Director Stephen Langridge said, “Our Autumn Season has become a major part of the UK’s annual opera calendar, known as a place for discovering emerging talent and new work. It also offers new audiences a more informal and affordable way to experience opera at Glyndebourne, so I’m delighted that such a large proportion of this year’s audience were first-time bookers, and that we sold record-breaking numbers of concessionary and children’s tickets. I hope that many of those visitors will have been inspired to make a habit of opera and am confident that they will find plenty to entice them in next autumn’s exciting lineup.”

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