Tag Archives: Glyndebourne

When an early 17th century play is turned into a late 19th century opera which is then given a setting in the 1940s, it sounds like a recipe for utter confusion, but Richard Jones’ production at Glyndebourne of Verdi’s Falstaff makes it all work to impressive comic effect. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

When Damiano Michieletto’s production of Kát’a Kabanova was first seen at Glyndebourne in 2021, the Covid pandemic demanded a reduced orchestra and social distancing among the cast. Its current revival displays the opera to far better effect but draws closer attention to less satisfying aspects of Michieletto’s production. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Parsifal was Wagner’s last opera and lasts more than five hours. As well as demanding huge stamina from the singers, however, this production gave the audience more problems than usual in following a convoluted plot. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Glyndebourne always sets itself impeccably high standards and this year opened its Festival with a superbly faultless and inspiring production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

The fifth and final production in Glyndebourne’s glorious summer festival this year is by far the most dramatic and ambitious. Only an accident to one of the principal singers prevented it from rounding off the season in perfect style. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Beautiful music and glaring historical anachronisms have never gone as well together as in David McVicar’s take on Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Even by Glyndebourne’s extraordinarily high standards, this production is a gloriously enjoyable triumph. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Cal McCrystal work on One Man, Two Guvnors and the two Paddington films, inspires his direction of Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow to create perhaps the merriest show ever seen at this glorious opera house in Sussex. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

US director Diane Paulus has brought us a new version of Carmen at Glyndebourne Festival, modernised and full of energy, yet still true to the original. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

With some delightfully outrageous additions, Glyndebourne’s controversial production of The Magic Flute is now more bizarre and more enjoyable than ever. A perfect summer pantomime. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

WELL, not so much three stars as four-and-a-half stars for the performance and one-and-a-half for the production, so let’s have the good parts first. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed