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Francesco Micheli to Make History at Glyndebourne Festival

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(Credit: Gianfranco Rota) Francesco Micheli is set to make history by becoming the fourth Italian director to stage a new opera production in the 88-year-long history of the Glyndebourne Festival. Micheli will make his debut at the 2022 edition of the Festival, staging Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Alcina.” He follows such Italian directors as Damiano Michieletto, Franco Enriquez, and Franco Zeffirelli {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival 2021 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Credit: © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Bill Cooper) Glyndebourne’s final production of this year’s festival is a semi-staged realization of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” conceived by Daniel Dooner and featuring Glyndebourne music director Robin Ticciati in the pit, accompanied by their resident orchestra the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s a production that boldly sets out several role debuts, in Simon {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival 2021 Review: ‘Il turco in Italia’

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Rossini’s operatic world is a crossroads of things: the formal conventions of arias, duets, cavatina, patter number, the stock characters of the Commedia dell’arte, a hotchpotch of contemporary patriarchal and orientalist stereotypes, and reheated scenarios from various librettists. How do modern audiences, relatively unmoored from this world, connect with these shows? A Brilliant Production In this new production of “Il {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival 2021 Review: Kat’a Kabanova

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It is an under-appreciated coincidence that Janacek’s searing opera of bourgeois repressiveness and psychological collapse appears in the same year as fellow Moravian Sigmund Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” and his study of “Mass Psychology” (they were, in fact, born mere miles apart). “Kat’a Kabanova” is a psychic drama of shame and self-hatred. As in Freud’s work, Janacek creates a {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival to Team up with Marquee TV

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Marquee TV has announced a new collaboration with Glyndebourne as the Festival’s official digital partner. For the 2021 program, Marquee TV will stream Glyndebourne: Summer Symphonies which will comprise four concerts live from the Festival and featuring Glyndebourne’s resident orchestras. The concerts will stream from July 2 through Sept. 10 and will feature the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Announces Revised 2021 Season

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The Glyndebourne Festival has announced a revised 2021 season that will run from May 20 to August 29. “Kát’a Kabanová” will open the festival in a new production by Damiano Michieletto. The cast will include Kateřina Knĕžíková, Aigul Akhmetshina, Katarina Dalayman, Nicky Spence, Alexander Vassiliev, David Butt Philip, and Thomas Atkins.  Performance Dates: May 29-June 19, 2021 Giancarlo Andretta conducts Mariame Clément’s production of Rossini’s {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Announces July & August Concerts

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The Glyndebourne Festival has announced that despite having to cancel its original slate due to the spread of COVID-19, the organization would move forward with a series of open-air concerts and operas in July and August. Starting in mid-July, audiences will get a chance to experience concerts featuring the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment while in August, the London {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Cancels Tour

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The Glyndebourne Festival has canceled its United Kingdom tour. The festival also announced that ticket holders will be contacted and that it will continue to offer free world-class opera online throughout the summer. “Unfortunately the ongoing uncertainty around COVID-19 has forced us to cancel our visits to our touring venues this year,” director Stephen Langridge said in a press release. {…}

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Marquee TV to Stream Glyndebourne Festival’s ‘Vanessa’

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(Credit: Tristram Kenton) Marquee TV is set to present the Glyndebourne Festival’s production of “Vanessa” on Saturday, May 16. The broadcast is an exclusive for Marquee TV and stars Emma Bell in the title role alongside Edgaras Montvidas as Anatol, Rosalind Plowright as the Old Baroness, Virginie Verrez as Erika, Donnie Ray Albert as the Old Doctor, William Thomas Nicholas, {…}