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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 – {…}
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Danielle de Niese, Louise Alder, Venera Gimadieva, Joélle Harvey, Liparit Avetisyan Headline Glyndebourne’s 2023 Season

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The Glyndebourne Festival has announced its 2023 slate. New Productions Kicking off the proceedings will be a new production of “Don Giovanni” starring baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky as Don Giovanni, Russian soprano Venera Gimadieva as Donna Anna, and Armenian soprano Ruzan Mantashyan as Donna Elvira. Mariame Clément directs with Evan Rogister conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Performance Dates: {…}
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Glyndebourne Announces New Managing Director

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Glyndebourne has announced that Richard Davidson-Houston as its Managing Director. Davidson-Houston, who has served as the company’s Director for Audience Development and Media over the last two years, will work alongside Artistic Director Stephen Langridge in pursuing the company’s artistic goals. He will take over for Sarah Hopwood, who is set to retire from her role after 25 years with {…}

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