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Glyndebourne Unveils the Entirety of its Autumn 2025 Season

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(Photo credit: Tristram Kenton) Glyndebourne has announced the full program for its Autumn 2025 Season. The first mainstage operas is a revival of Floris Visser’s Festival 2022 production of  Puccini’s “La bohème, conducted by Adam Hickox. Additionally, Bertie Baigent conducts a revival of Peter Hall’s 1981 Festival production of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Händel’s “Messiah”  featuring the Glyndebourne Chorus and {…}

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Glyndebourne Names Three New Members to Board of Trustees

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Glyndebourne’s Board of Trustees has three new appointments. The new members include Karthi Gnanasegaram, Dr. Anna Mallett, and Gautam Rangarajan. Gnanasegaram is a radio and TV presenter with a passion for classical music and sports. She has hosted live events for the Royal Ballet and Opera as well as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Mallett is Vice President of {…}

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Glyndebourne Appoints Laura Jukes as Director of Audiences

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(Photo credit: Pablo Strong) Glyndebourne has announced the appointment of Laura Jukes to the role of Director of Audiences. Jukes joined the company as the Senior Marketing Officer in 2010. Four years later,  she was promoted to Head of Marketing and led Glyndebourne through a revolutionary approach to digital marketing and audience insight. In 2020, she became Head of Communications, {…}

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Glyndebourne’s ‘The Merry Widow,’ Starring Danielle de Niese, Heads to BBC Four on Christmas

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(Photo credit: ©Tristram Kenton) Glyndebourne is set to air its “The Merry Widow” on BBC Four this Christmas. The production was filmed during the 2024 festival and stars Danielle de Niese in the title role. She is joined by conductor John Wilson in a production by Cal McCrystal. “We’re delighted that audiences across the country will have this extra opportunity {…}

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Glyndebourne Names New Technical and Production Director

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Glyndebourne has announced the appointment of Sam Garner-Gibbons as its new Technical and Production Director. Garner-Gibbons has worked with Chichester Festival Theatre over the last nine seasons. He will take up his new position at Glyndebourne in January 2025. Throughout his career, he has worked with such organizations as Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Young Vic, Royal Festival Hall, {…}

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Glyndebourne to Present Largest Mainstage Community Opera in its History

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(Photo credit: Sarah Hickson) Glyndebourne has announced its largest mainstage community opera in its history to take place in February 2025. The amateur singers and instrumentalists will perform alongside professional musicians in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis’ “Uprising.” Appearing on stage will be a community chorus of 110 singers made up of 60 young people {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2024: Carmen

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(Photo: © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photography by Richard Hubert Smith) “Carmen” is unquestionably one of the most popular works ever composed and has become an almost permanent fixture in the repertoire of opera houses. However, this presents something of a dilemma for those creative artists and directors who desire to produce the opera in a more contemporary setting and feel {…}

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Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2024 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Photo credit: Glyndebourne’s own official trailer highlights its festival as “No Ordinary Opera”. Certainly, the staging for “Tristan und Isolde” is far from ordinary, courtesy of a visually entrancing setting by Ronald Aeschlimann. The performers are basically encased in an elliptical vortex-type form of concentric circles, which I interpreted to be a depiction of some portal-like presence intended to illustrate {…}