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Moreton-in-MarshMacbethNew production
Verdi: Macbeth
Nil Venditti; Karolina Sofulak; Longborough Festival Opera; Longborough Festival Opera Orchestra; Longborough Festival Chorus; Benedict Nelson; Viktoriia Balan
Moreton-in-MarshTristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Anthony Negus; Carmen Jakobi; Longborough Festival Opera; Kimie Nakano; Ben Ormerod; Longborough Festival Opera Orchestra
Moreton-in-MarshHansel and GretelNew production
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Karen Kamensek; Lucy Bailey; Longborough Festival Opera; Longborough Festival Opera Orchestra; Longborough Youth Chorus; Joanna Harries; TBC
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A vigorous, vivid Tristan und Isolde in the Cotswolds
The revered Anthony Negus conducts a superb revival of Carmen Jakobi’s abstract production of Wagner’s transcendent drama at Longborough Festival Opera.
Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando
Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.
Dorman’s Wahnfried receives its UK premiere at Longborough
Longborough Festival Opera, built on Wagnerian foundations, stages the UK premiere of Avner Dorman’s ambitious cautionary tale about the Wagner clan and establishing the composer’s legacy.
An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival
Who wouldn't relish the chance of seeing a Ring cycle at close quarters? Longborough's Die Walküre isn't perfect, but it consistently delivers on the story and on character interpretation.
Back to the Bard: Longborough's Fairy Queen
Polly Graham's production turns semi-opera into “three-quarters opera”, to good effect.
Don't look back: Longborough's new L'Orfeo
Olivia Fuchs directs Monteverdi's early opera in a sparse staging with a consistently fine cast.