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Glyndebourne Festival Announces 2026 Autumn Season

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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 {…}

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Glyndebourne Announces Apprenticeship Program for Technical & Production Professionals

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Glyndebourne has announced a new apprenticeship program. The program will seek to train the next generation of technical and production professionals in the performing arts through a paid, hands-on experience. Designed as an alternative to traditional university education, the program allows apprentices to gain practical experience directly from industry professionals while building networks to support their careers. They will work {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2025 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) Considered one of the most beloved and frequently performed operas in the world, “La Bohème” is the perfect blend of  exquisite music, timeless tales, and romantic themes, an ideal first opera for any budding enthusiast. Its incarnations have included a rock musical, placing the opera in space, in a hospital, as well as a setting based in {…}

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Glyndebourne to World Premiere ‘The Railway Children’

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Glyndebourne is set to present the world premiere of “The Railway Children” this fall. The new opera by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Rachael Hewer is based on Edith Nesbit’s novel, which explores the mysterious imprisonment of a child’s father and his mother’s determination to reunite the family. “We have aimed to respect the integrity of the original story, while {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2025: Le Nozze di Figaro

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(© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photography by Richard Hubert Smith) By the time the current run of “Le nozze di Figaro” is concluded, Glyndebourne will have hosted its 600th performance of Mozart and Da Ponte’s perennial masterpiece. The opera launched the  country house enterprise in 1934 at the behest of Fritz Busch and Rudolf Bing, who wisely cautioned against Christie’s Wagner-shaped {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Experiences Power Outages

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The Glyndebourne Festival experienced power outages over the weekend. According to Opera Magazine, the June 28 performance of “Saul” was interrupted by three power cuts and abandoned before the closing chorus. Then on Sunday, June 29, “the final scene of the new production of ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ was delayed by a technical problem with the revolve.” “Saul” is currently {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2025: Parsifal

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(Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) A new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal” is always a big deal, given the imaginative and actual scale of the work and the special aura that surrounds it – a triumph of Bayreuth marketing, truly, to try and restrict its performances for so many years. But this new staging at Glyndebourne Festival Opera signals the first time {…}

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Natalya Romaniw, Francesca Aspromonte, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Liv Redpath & David Portillo Headline Glyndebourne’s 2026 Season

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Glyndebourne Festival has announced its 2026 season. New Productions Puccini’s “Tosca” will be directed by Ted Huffman with two casts. Robin Ticciati conducts the first run with a cast that includes Caitlin Gotimer as Floria Tosca, Matteo Lippi as Mario Cavaradossi, and Vladislav Sulimsky as Baron Scarpia. Jordan de Souza conducts the second cast that includes Natalya Romaniw as Floria {…}

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Glyndebourne to Showcase Exhibition to Honor Legacy of Designer Oliver Messel

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Starting on May 16, 2025, Glyndebourne will open an exhibition to honor the legacy of Oliver Messel. “Oliver Messel: Designer, Maker, Influencer” will mark the 75th anniversary since Messel designed his first opera, a production of “Arabella,” for Glyndebourne. The production opened in 1950 at the Edinburgh International Festival. Between 1950-1965, he designed nine productions for the organization, including “Le {…}