This new production of this compelling and intricately crafted collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal opens the 2013 Glyndebourne Festival. In Vladimir Jurowski's final season as Music Director he conducts his first fully-staged Strauss opera, working with the German director Katharina Thoma, making her UK and Glyndebourne debut.
Cast includes: Thomas Allen, Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke and William Renton. Conducted by Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
We will be live broadcasting this production on June 4 in cinemas in the UK and online available worldwide: http://glyndebourne.com/production/ariadne-auf-naxos
Recorded on location at Glyndebourne May 2013
This intricately crafted collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal is the perfect Glyndebourne opera. As von Hofmannsthal put it, with 'music as enchanting in the memory as anything could be; like fireworks in a beautiful park, one enchanted, all too fleeting, summer night'.
Discover more in this film featuring Cori Ellison, Kate Lindsey, Katherina Thoma and Soile Isokoski who reveal the new production and what Strauss's music means to them.
We will be live broadcasting this production on June 4 in cinemas in the UK and online available worldwide: glyndebourne.com/production/ariadne-auf-naxos
Recorded on location at Glyndebourne May 2013.
We want to share our work with as many people as possible. We've been broadcasting opera since the 1930s, and in 2007 we were the first opera house in the UK to screen performances into cinemas. In 2011 we embarked on an innovative partnership with guardian.com, streaming live opera to a worldwide audience.
Glyndebourne will be showing Festival 2013 operas in cinemas and online on the following dates:
Ariadne auf Naxos 4 June -- LIVE broadcast
Falstaff 17 June -- recorded live in 2009
Le nozze di Figaro 8 July -- recorded live in 2012
Hippolyte et Aricie 25 July -- LIVE broadcast
Don Pasquale 6 August -- LIVE broadcast
Billy Budd 19 August -- recorded live in 2010
Visit http://www.glyndebourne.com/season/tickets-whats-on for more details.
Glyndebourne Festival 18 May -- 25 August
Festival 2013 celebrates some of opera's greatest composers. From works by Britten and Verdi, marking their anniversary years, to Glyndebourne's first production of an opera by Rameau, this exciting programme of opera is completed by works from Strauss, Mozart and Donizetti. The 2013 Festival is also a farewell to Vladimir Jurowski in his final year as Glyndebourne's Music Director.
Audio extracts with kind permission from EMI Classics, Decca Classics and Warner Music.
These recordings are available to buy from the Glyndebourne shop:
http://www.glyndebourne.com/shop
Glyndebourne Festival 18 May -- 25 August
Festival 2013 celebrates some of opera's greatest composers. From works by Britten and Verdi, marking their anniversary years, to Glyndebourne's first production of an opera by Rameau, this exciting programme of opera is completed by works from Strauss, Mozart and Donizetti. The 2013 Festival is also a farewell to Vladimir Jurowski in his final year as Glyndebourne's Music Director.
http://www.glyndebourne.com
Glyndebourne's community opera for the digital age Imago received its World Premiere on Glyndebourne's main stage in March 2013. Our Video Diarist, Hazel Gaydon documented her experience from auditions to rehearsals, and in this final instalment she reflects on the excitement of the first night and the amazing journey the chorus have been on.
http://glyndebourne.com/discover/imago-opera
Video Diarist: Hazel Gaydon
Editor: Rorie Sherwood
A new opera for the digital age. What if you could live a second life, look the way you want to look, and be whoever you wanted to be?
We will be streaming Imago for free on 11 and 12 May to clebrate European Opera Days.
http://www.glyndebourne.com/discover/imago-opera
What happens when you can live a second life, look the way you want to look, and be whoever you want to be? Imago is Glyndebourne's new community opera which unites the generations from 16 to 90 to explore these possibilities.
A La bohème for the Internet-age, with Bronia Housman and Olympic designer Es Devlin turning the Glyndebourne stage into a cyber-world, where characters and locations miraculously appear and vanish at the click of a mouse...
Follow the making of this extraordinary new work for the Glyndebourne stage with composer Orlando Gough, writer Stephen Plaice, Director Susannah Waters, General Director of Glyndebourne David Pickard and members of the cast.
http://glyndebourne.com/discover/imago-opera
Verdi's comic romp was brought to the Glyndebourne stage by director Richard Jones and designer Ultz in 2009. The opera is based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and in this production the setting is ration era Windsor complete with American GI's, rows of perfect cabbages and a formidable Mistress Quickly.
Falstaff (recorded live in 2009) will be in cinemas and online from 17 June 2013, glyndebourne.com/production/falstaff-0
Falstaff is available on DVD and Blu-ray from our shop: glyndebourne.com/product/verdi-guiseppe-falstaff-dvd-2009
Mozart's story of love, deception, seduction and subversion is here set at the end of the swinging 60s in Franco's Spain complete with flares, kaftans and a brief cameo from a 'vintage' (actually electric) red Austin Healy.
Michael Grandage's production was acclaimed when first put on at the 2012 Glyndebourne Festival:
'This is a Figaro of rare grace, naturalness and charm', said The Daily Telegraph, and for The Sunday Times it was a production that 'affirms Mozart's most beloved masterpiece as both of its time and perennially modern, Grandage oiling the comic mechanisms of Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto with a master technician's hands.'
Le nozze di Figaro (recorded live in 2012) will be in cinemas and online from 8 July 2013.
Find out more: http://glyndebourne.com/production/le-nozze-di-figaro-0
The DVD and Blu-ray is availble from our shop: http://glyndebourne.com/shop
Based on the novel by Herman Melville, Billy Budd is a story of injustice set in the tense and stifling atmosphere on board a British man of war during the Napoleonic wars. The all male cast is powerfully directed by Michael Grandage with Jacques Imbrailo in the title role.
2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, and Glyndebourne is proud to present Billy Budd (recorded live in 2010) in cinemas and online from 19 August 2013.
http://glyndebourne.com/season/tickets-whats-on
Billy Budd DVD and Blu-ray is available from our shop: http://glyndebourne.com/product/britten-benjamin-billy-budd-dvd-2010
What if you could live a second life and be whoever you wanted to be? Imago, a new opera for the digital age. March 2013.
http://glyndebourne.com/discover/imago-opera
Episode three of Chorus Cam -- our glimpse behind the scenes of Imago -- takes us onto the set, into the wardrobe department and towards the final stages of rehearsal.
http://glyndebourne.com/discover/imago-opera
10 tonnes of scaffolding, two and half tonnes of glass and 120 sheets of plywood transform the Glyndebourne stage into a giant cyber-world... watch the Imago set come to life.
http://www.glyndebourne.com/discover/imago-opera
Glyndebourne's new 2013 community opera Imago is now in rehearsals.Our Video Diarist, Hazel Gaydon is getting to grips with singing from memory as she meets some other members of the Chorus.
Video Diarist: Hazel Gaydon
Editor: Rorie Sherwood
Glyndebourne's new 2013 community opera Imago is now in rehearsals. Chorus Member, and Video Diarist, Hazel Gaydon shares her first video diary charting her progress from auditions to the main stage.
Video Diarist: Hazel Gaydon
Editor: Rorie Sherwood
CD release: Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten (2010 Glyndebourne Festival)
Conductor Sir Mark Elder
Cast John Mark Ainsley, Jacques Imbrailo, Phillip Ens
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life in the late 18th century, Billy Budd is a gripping reflection on good and evil, innocence and corruption.Director Michael Grandage scrupulously recreates the claustrophobic environment about HMS Indomitable, the setting for fatal tensions between the young sailor Billy Budd, the thoughtful Captain Vere and the malevolent master at arms John Claggart.
3 CDs includes libretto available from the Glyndebourne http://www.glyndebourne.com/product/britten-benjamin-billy-budd-0
Recorded live at Glyndebourne in 2002 this Glyndebourne Festival recording stars Anne Sofie von Otter as the eponymous anti heroine with Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri and Lisa Milne. The.Conductor is Philippe Jordan with London Philharmonic Orchestra.
The CD is available from the Glyndebourne shop:
http://glyndebourne.com/product/bizet-georges-carmen-cd-2002
Have you got what it takes to make your mark on Glyndebourne's main stage? In March 2013 Glyndebourne is staging Imago, its next large-scale community opera and the hunt is now on for a host of talented local people to join the cast. Get a taste of what to expect in our feature filmed during preliminary auditions in September 2012.
Danielle de Niese gives advice and instruction on how to warm up your voice for that pitch perfect sound we're so used to hearing on the Glyndebourne stage.
You can also hear her in action at this year's Tour 2012 screenings of Giulio Cesare - http://glyndebourne.com/production/cesaretour2012
Glyndeboure's New Generation Programme was launched in 2009, our 75th Anniversary, to invest significantly in developing new audiences, artists of the future and our staff at Glyndebourne.
Find out more on our website: glyndebourne.com/new-generation-programme
The director of Glyndebourne's production of Rusalka, Melly Still, discusses the story and emotions behind the Tour 2012 production.
Dvořák's richly expressive music conjures up a world of dark forests and deep lakes. The water spirit Rusalka falls hopelessly in love with the Prince who comes daily to swim in the lake where she lives. He cannot see her and her only chance of becoming visible to him and of entering the human world is to make a terrible pact with Ježibaba the witch. She gives up her own world and loses the power of speech in exchange for the chance to experience the pain and joy of human love.
CD available in the Glynebourne shop:
http://glyndebourne.com/product/dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k-antonin-rusalka-cd-2009
A story of love and loss, of betrayal and deception, of sex and a city, of wounded pride and attempted retribution -- of plumply inviting sofa cushions. Based on a short story by Eça de Queirós and written specially for Glyndebourne by our first Composer-in-Residence Julian Philips, with a text by Edward Kemp.
The music is published by Edition Peters
Giulio Cesare:
The triumphant sensation of the 2005 Festival, David McVicar's acclaimed production of Handel's grandest opera returned to cinema screens as part of the Glyndebourne Tour 2012.
The powerful cast was led by the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as the imperious Roman general and soprano Danielle de Niese as the irrepressibly coquettish Cleopatra, the role in which she made her Glyndebourne debut.
Available on DVD at the Glyndebourne shop:
http://glyndebourne.com/product/handel-georg-frideric-giulio-cesare-dvd-2005
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Ariadne auf Naxos Trailer Festival 2013
Ariadne auf Naxos - When Worlds Collide
See Opera Differently - Glyndebourne Festival 2013 trailer
See Opera Differently - Glyndebourne Festival 2013 teaser trailer
Imago Chorus Cam: No 4 Curtain up
Falstaff Trailer Festival 2013
Le nozze di Figaro Trailer Festival 2013
Billy Budd trailer Festival 2013
Chorus Cam: No 2 Meet the Chorus
Carmen (2002) from the Glyndebourne CD label
How to warm up your singing voice
Glyndeboure's New Generation Programme
Giulio Cesare in cinemas trailer
