When Glyndebourne Festival opens on 20 May it will be the first UK opera festival powered by renewable energy, establishing Glyndebourne as an environmental innovator in the arts.
The 78th Glyndebourne Festival presents 12 inspirational artists exhibiting more than 100 pieces of art and sculpture in the annual art collection that supports Glyndebourne’s Festival. Visual arts have long been integral to Glyndebourne and today, this area of work enhances our cultural output and compliments the annual Festival presenting a series of artistic and sculptural debuts that harmoniously synchronise with the 2012 Festival repertoire.
A major new production staged at Glyndebourne and performed by artists with learning disabilities will premiere on Glyndebourne’s main stage on 1st April 2012.
Following the success of Glyndebourne’s acclaimed Fairy Queen winning the 2011 BBC Music Magazine Award for best DVD, Glyndebourne is delighted to announce Britten’s Billy Budd has been nominated as best DVD for the 2012 awards.
This year’s nomination is even more exciting as this is the first year the public can vote for the category of Best DVD.
Reflecting on 2011, yet again I am struck by the extraordinary support that Glyndebourne receives from its Members and supporters. We have had an amazing year on many levels, including record Box Office sales for the Festival (closing at 99.4% sales) and unprecedented backing from our funders.
‘Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne’ wins the 2011 International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programme. Congratulations go to Twenty Twenty Television, the BBC, Gareth Malone and, of course, all the wonderful cast and musicians who took part in Knight Crew, Glyndebourne’s largest outreach project yet, which culminated in three performances from 4 - 6 March 2010. Gareth’s journey, from auditioning the young chorus through to the final performances at Glyndebourne, was filmed by the BBC as a three-part documentary, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in June 2010.
Update 16 January 2012
We are delighted that after some years in the planning, Glyndebourne’s wind turbine was installed on Friday 14 October 2012. Glyndbourne's turbine became operational in December 2011 and since that time we can proudly report we have eported 140,000 kilowatts.
We will be regularly publishing details of total power generated, power utilised directly by Glyndebourne and output to the grid, both on our site and at the site of the turbine.
20 May – 26 August 2012
The 2012 Glyndebourne Festival opens on 20 May and features new productions of Le nozze di Figaro, The Cunning Little Vixen and a double bill of L’Heure Espagnole and L’Enfant et les sortilèges. There are also revival productions of La Cenerentola, La bohème and The Fairy Queen.
The 2012 Glyndebourne Festival will begin on 20 May and run until 26 August 2012.
Leoš Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
Gioachino Rossini La Cenerentola
Giacomo Puccini La bohème
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