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Nicholas Carter; Michael Grandage; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Christopher Oram; Paule Constable; London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Merriment aplenty in Cal McCrystal's Merry Widow at Glyndebourne

Danielle de Niese (Hanna) and cancan dancers © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Tristram Kenton
Glyndebourne's new production of Lehár's greatest work is interpreted with his customary flair and fun by Cal McCrystal. 
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Operetta is back at Glyndebourne: Offenbach's Mesdames de la Halle

Glyndebourne welcome audiences back into the house with a one hour Offenbach operetta whose comedy and plot lines are thin but which still delights.
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Cinders on the couch: Freudian Cendrillon at Glyndebourne

Cinderella undergoes psychoanalysis on the Sussex Downs as Fiona Shaw's production is revived for the Glyndebourne Festival. 
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Community Chorus is star of the show in Glyndebourne's Agreed

Impressive performances from a 75-strong community chorus in a watery tale of love, loss and divided lands at Glyndebourne.

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Overwrought and over-thought: Cendrillon

In her anxiety to be ‘new’, Shaw slaps a sackload of semi-comprehensible ideas onto a sort-of present day update.
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An enigmatic Pelléas et Mélisande at Glyndebourne

Stefan Herheim's dreamlike production of Debussy's opera sets it squarely in the Sussex manor house that gave birth to Glyndebourne's festival. 
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