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Glyndebourne has an annual budget of a little over £20 million, as of 2010. The Festival is the only major opera season in the United Kingdom which is not state subsidised. Glyndebourne on Tour receives an annual subsidy of around £1.5 million from Arts Council England, but is budgeted to make an annual loss even after this has been credited ...
Runners-up receive prizes and opportunities which include (in 2011) The Royal Over-Seas League (UK) Music Bursary, the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme, the Glyndebourne Festival Prize, and the 4MBS Classic FM Award.
Glyndebourne (/ ˈ ɡ l aɪ n d b ɔː n /) is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The house, located near Lewes in East Sussex , England, is thought to be about six hundred years old and listed at grade II.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra presented a semi-staged concert performance of New Year on 13 April 2024 at Glasgow City Halls, [6] a performance with a recording scheduled for commercial release in 2025 by NMC Recordings. [7] The most recent full staging of the opera was in July 2024 by Birmingham Opera Company, directed by Keith Warner. [8]
The tour would have visited Liverpool, Canterbury, Norwich and Milton Keynes.
Large-scale musicals have included the award-winning Carmen Jones, Chicago, Cats and Miss Saigon, whilst the comedies, rock & roll musicals, children's shows and a Christmas pantomime are regular features in the theatre's programme.
The founders of the Edinburgh Festival had been closely connected with the Glyndebourne Opera and from the beginning opera was an important part of the programme. The city did not have, and still does not have, ideal facilities for creating original staged opera productions, so guest companies were invited to the festival.
In 2013, Waters directed a new main stage community opera for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, co-devised with the composer Orlando Gough, librettist Stephen Plaice, and designer Es Devlin. In November 2013, she directed Chabrier’s L’Etoile for New Sussex Opera, and in May 2014 she directed a new production of Harrison Birtwistle ’s Down by ...