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.
‘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.
Jonathan Kent's acclaimed production of The Fairy Queen is a fascinating carnival of music, theatre and dance. Purcell's The Fairy Queen incorporates elements of A Midsummer Night's Dream and in addition to Shakespeare's characters, conjures up a wild array of gods and goddesses, nymphs and sprites, fairies and shepherds, dancing swans and figures of dream. Purcell's score takes the form of a series of fantastical masques and contains the composer's finest, wittiest and most inventive score.
The recording of Dvořák's Rusalka from the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival has been nominated in the opera category for a BBC Music Award. The winner will be decided by a public vote which closes on March 1.
The CD is available to buy from the Glyndebourne shop at a discount price for a limited time.
About the recording
The 75th Anniversary Festival has won the Achievement in Opera award at this year's TMA Awards.
The prestigious award, announced annually by the Theatre Management Association was given to Glyndebourne for its 'outstanding' 2009 Festival which marked 75 years since the founding of the Opera House by John Christie.
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