GLYNDEBOURNE, England (Reuters) - A new production of "Die Meistersinger" at the Glyndebourne festival sets aside the Nazi associations of Wagner's controversial opera to focus on its timeless story ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The founder of the Glyndebourne festival loved Wagner and performed excerpts from "Die Meistersinger" on the organ, but that was before the Nazis adopted the composer's longest ...
It was Glyndebourne music director Robin Ticciati who launched the latest Glyndebourne Carmen, and Bihlmaier seemed to share much of his fast-moving panache. But she also had her own way with some of ...
There were some great voices and interpretations onstage at Glyndebourne’s new production of Le nozze di Figaro – unfortunately none of them belonged to the principals. Alan Oke’s Don Basilio, Andrew ...
While this might sound frivolous, the singing in this production is anything but. The Belgian soprano Sophie Junker, as ...
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Former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire is to head a new trade body representing the UK's opera sector ...
For all of its obvious humour, Ariadne auf Naxos is an extremely profound work. Theatrically it breaks the fourth wall, constitutes (at least in part) a show about putting on a show, and makes ...
If it's good enough for Maria Callas it's good enough for Glyndebourne. Donizetti's opera Poliuto languished in semi-neglect for over a century (although the great tenor Beniamino Gigli essayed the ...