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Glyndebourne to Reevaluate ‘Offensive Operas’

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The Glyndebourne Festival has announced it will rethink the way certain offensive operas will be performed. The company said in a statement, “Some operas in our archive reflect the society and norms of previous ages, containing historical opinions and social assumptions which may offend audiences today. Where once exoticism and orientalism in the presentation of non-European cultures were acceptable, we {…}

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Glyndebourne to Perform Mozart & Chevalier de Saint-Georges Concert

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Glyndebourne is set to perform concerts featuring the music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The organization is bringing the music of Saint-Georges and Mozart featuring “The Anonymous Lover” with Mozart’s Requiem. Instead of a traditional concert performance, director Simone Ibbett-Brown will interweave arias, extracts, and ensembles from “The Anonymous Lover” with spoken theatre to bring the opera’s plot and {…}

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Glyndebourne Announces Tour 2022 Lineup Schedule

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The Glyndebourne Tour has announced its lineup for 2022. The tour taking place Oct. through Dec. will feature Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Requiem,” Puccini’s “La bohème,” and Fernando and Wilson’s new opera, “glass human.” The company will make stops in Milton Keynes, Canterbury, Norwich, and Liverpool All times and dates vary depending on the show. Starting off the {…}

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Glyndebourne to Host Premiere of ‘glass human’ in Fall of 2022

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“glass human,” a new chamber opera by composer Samantha Fernando and writer and sound artist Melanie Wilson, will have its premiere during the fall of 2022 at Glyndebourne. The opera explores the theme of loneliness, featuring the stories of three individuals and their experiences with loneliness. A young student lives away from home for the first time and hears disturbing {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Now Streaming Poulenc Double Bill

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Glyndebourne is now streaming a Poulenc double bill on its official platform Glyndebourne Encore. Audiences can check out “La Voix Humaine” and “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” in a production by Laurent Pelly. The production premiered during the 2022 festival. Of the staging, The Telegraph said, “‘Glyndebourne’s final offering of the season is both scintillatingly brilliant in its own right and {…}

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Glyndebourne Releases ‘Alcina’ on Digital Platform

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Glyndebourne has released its recent production of Händel’s “Alcina” on its streaming platform Glyndebourne Encore. “Alcina” stars soprano Jane Archibald stars in the title role, with Soraya Mafi as Morgana and Samantha Hankey as Ruggerio. Jonathan Cohen conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. “Alcina” was directed by Francesco Micheli. The company also unveiled that its other productions would be {…}

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Glyndebourne Production of ‘The Wreckers’ to Launch on Glyndebourne Encore Platform

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On August 1, 2022, Glyndebourne will launch the recording of their new production of Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers,” on their Glyndebourne Encore streaming platform. The production is the first professional staging of the work in recent years, and was presented with its original French libretto and a fully-restored score. In OperaWire’s review of the production, Benjamin Poore noted that “It {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2022: La Bohème

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Photo credit: © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. “La bohème”, as the archetypal verismo opera, tends to resist stagings that take it much beyond the confines of nineteenth-century Paris, and indeed non-naturalistic approaches to the work. (Audiences tend to resist them too.) The two most successful in London recently have been John Copley’s recently retired version at the Royal Opera House – {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2022 Review: The Wreckers

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(© Richard Hubert Smith) Ethel Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” opened the Glyndebourne Festival Opera last weekend, receiving its first-ever performance in the original French – libretto by Henry Brewster – and with many savage cuts restored. Its journey has been a long one: Smyth was repeatedly thwarted by war, misogynistic attitudes, musical conservatism, and meddling conductors. For some context – {…}