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The Glyndebourne on Tour trailer. In 1968, Glyndebourne Festival Opera established a touring ensemble, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, which in its first season took opera productions to Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Oxford. In addition to bringing the work of Glyndebourne Festival Opera to audiences some distance from ...
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. [1] [2] [3]
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: A Gala Evening was a 111-minute concert staged by Glyndebourne Festival Opera on 24 July 1992, performed by Kim Begley, Montserrat Caballé, Cynthia Haymon, Felicity Lott, Benjamin Luxon, Ruggero Raimondi and Frederica von Stade with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis and Sir Bernard Haitink.
She began singing in the chorus of Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1968 and the following year made her debut on the Glyndebourne Tour, singing Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky. This role was to take her to, among other places, Toronto, Amsterdam, and The Royal Opera House in London. She also took part in the Decca recording under ...
The opera premiered on 20 June 1947 at Glyndebourne, conducted by the composer. According to one writer, the owner and founder of Glyndebourne, John Christie , "disliked it intensely and is said to have greeted members of the first night audience with the words: 'This isn't our kind of thing, you know'."
Pages in category "Glyndebourne Festival Opera" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Chorus of Glyndebourne Opera (live recording from 30 May 1965) Glyndebourne Cat: GFOCD010-65 [13] [14] 1968/69: Régine Crespin, Yvonne Minton, Helen Donath, Manfred Jungwirth, Otto Wiener, Luciano Pavarotti: Sir Georg Solti Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus of the Vienna State Opera: Decca Cat: 475 9988 [1] 1969: Christa Ludwig, Tatiana ...
Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville. [1] Originally in four acts, the opera received its premiere at the Royal Opera House (ROH), London, on 1 December 1951. [ 2 ]