Glyndebourne Festival Opera is a opera festival held at Glyndebourne House near Lewes, in southern England. This is an inclusive list of opera festivals and summer seasons, and music festivals that have opera productions. ... Glyndebourne is a country house near Lewes in East Sussex, England. ... Lewes is a town in the Lewes district of East Sussex in South East England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004...
It has been held annually since 1934. Glyndebourne is most famous for its productions of Mozart operas; many of those productions are considered the finest ever done of those operas in the twentieth century, and the recordings from those stagings are still in print. In the late 1980s, the Glyndebourne Festival staged a new production of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess". It was directed by Trevor Nunn, and was highly acclaimed. The production was subsequently expanded from the small Glyndebourne stage and videotaped in 1993 for television. Trevor Nunn again directed. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... George Gershwin photograph by Edward Steichen in 1927. ... The cast of Porgy and Bess during the Boston try-out prior to the Broadway opening. ... Sir Trevor King (born 14 January 1940) is a loser and film director. ...
GlyndebourneFestivalOpera is an operafestival held at Glyndebourne, a country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt.
Glyndebourne is most famous for its productions of Mozart operas; many of those productions are considered the finest ever done of those operas in the twentieth century, and the recordings from those stagings are still in print.
Every opera has a dinner interval of an hour and a half, during which one picnics (in evening dress) on one's picnic rug, though tables and chairs are now more common than they were.
The real reason for visiting Glyndebourne is not the Pimms, or the bucolic setting, or the chance to see and be seen - but the opera, which is of consistently high quality.
Membership of the Society is not cheap (nor are tickets - Glyndebourne does not receive the public subsidy which the other major British opera companies enjoy), but its benefits include priority booking; I pay half the subscription and have, in fact, been to quite a few more operas at Glyndebourne than William has.
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