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Longborough Festival Opera Names Harry Sever as Inaugural Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow

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Longborough Festival Opera has announced the appointment of Harry Sever as their first Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow. Sever will work alongside Music Director and leading Wagnerian Anthony Negus as the festival works toward the cycle in 2024. The appointment comes following an audition process which saw eight conductors work with Negus on the opening scene of “Siegfried.” The panel was {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera Announces 2021 Season

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced its 2021 program. The U.K festival, which is scheduled to take place between June 4 and August 3 will showcase four productions. In a press release, Artistic Director Polly Graham said, “We’re delighted to be announcing these plans for 2021 and look forward to sharing these now much-anticipated productions with our wonderful audiences, whose loyalty and generosity {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera Launches Podcast

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The Longborough Festival Opera has launched a podcast series that will feature conversations with many of opera’s biggest stars. The company has released four episodes to this point, with three of them focused on Wagner’s Ring Cycle. In the first, journalist Richard Bratby, Longborough Music Director Anthony Negus, and bass-baritone Paul Carey Jones talk about Wotan’s journey through the tetralogy. In a second episode, Writer and {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera Audience Members Raise over £300,000

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced that 1,000 audience members have chosen to donate the value of their tickets, generating a fund of over £300,000. In a press release Executive Director Jennifer Smith said, “We are overwhelmed by the number of people who have chosen to donate some or all of the value of their tickets. We are so grateful {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera Announces 2020 Season

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced its 2020 season. Following Longborough’s acclaimed “Das Rheingold,” the company continues its presentation of Wagner’s Ring with “Die Walküre,” conducted by Longborough’s Music Director Anthony Negus and directed by Amy Lane. The cast is set to include Mark Le Brocq, Sarah Marie Kramer, Paul Carey Jones, Madeleine Shaw, Lee Bisset, and Julian Close. Performance {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera To Partner With The Academy of Ancient Music For 2020 Production

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced that it will be working alongside the Academy of Ancient Music for its 2020 production of “The Return of Ulysses.” The production of the Monteverdi Opera is due for performances between July 14-21, 2020 and will feature Tom Randle in the title role of the legendary hero. Robert Howarth will conduct the production, which {…}

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Longborough Opera Announces Cast For ‘La Calisto’

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced its 2019 Young Artist Production of Cavalli’s “La Calisto.” Performances are set for July 29, 31, and August 2 and 3. The production will be directed by Mathilde Lopez and will star Chiara Vinci, Sophie Goldrick, Zita Syme, Emma Charles, Lizzie Holmes, Jessie Tse, Felix Kemp, Neil Balfour, Brian Mcalea, and Gabriel Seawright. “Comical {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera Reveals 2020 Season, Featuring Operas by Wagner, Donizetti, & More

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The Longborough Festival Opera announced its 2020 season, which will feature four operas from a wide range of periods and cultures in the artform’s history. After a season with three of four operas in Italian, this season will feature a work by a baroque composer, a bel canto composer, a Czech master, and finally, Wagner. “Die Walküre” will be presented {…}

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Wagner, Donizetti, And Mozart Operas Headline Longborough Festival Opera 2019

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced its 2019 slate. Everything kicks off with “Das Rheingold,” which will kick off the company’s four-year plan to mount the Ring.  The production will feature Mark Stone, Darren Jeffery, Mark Le Brocq, Madeleine Shaw, and Simon Wilding among others. Amy Lane directors and Anthony Negus conducts. Performance Dates: June 5-11, 2019 Wagner’s epic will {…}