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.
‘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.
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
Following the success of Knight Crew in 2010, we have now commissioned Orlando Gough (composer), Stephen Plaice (librettist) and Susannah Waters (director) to devise and create our next large-scale community opera, Imago, an opera which explores ageing in a digital world. Imago will have its world premiere at Glyndebourne in March 2013, and will include up to 70 people aged 9-90 from our local community.
Knight Crew is the latest initiative from Glyndebourne Education placing youth and the community centre stage in a new commission from Glyndebourne’s first composer-in-residence Julian Philips. With Gareth Malone joining the production team at Glyndebourne to take on the role of chorus master on his first opera, BBC Two’s Gareth goes to Glyndebourne will follow the project from its early stages through to the March performances.
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.
Highlights of 2010 at Glyndebourne
Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Michael Grandage will make his opera debut directing the new production of Billy Budd which will open the 2010 Festival. Grandage’s debut will mark a continuing tradition of theatre directors making opera debuts at Glyndebourne from Trevor Nunn in 1982 with Idomeneo to Melly Still with Rusalka in 2009.
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