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Britten: Billy Budd
Nicholas Carter; Michael Grandage; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Christopher Oram; Paule Constable; London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Billy Budd makes a welcome return to Glyndebourne
Michael Grandage’s production shows no signs of age, with fine central performances from Thomas Mole, Allan Clayton and Sam Carl, and fine playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Merriment aplenty in Cal McCrystal's Merry Widow at Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne's new production of Lehár's greatest work is interpreted with his customary flair and fun by Cal McCrystal.
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.
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.
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.
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.