Prom 60: Glyndebourne's outstanding Figaro

By Nahoko Gotoh, 31 August 2012

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 28 August 2012

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (semi-staged performance)

Vito Priante, Figaro

Lydia Teuscher, Susanna

Sally Matthews, Countess Almaviva

Audun Iversen, Count Almaviva

Andrew Shore, Doctor Bartolo

Ann Murray, Marcellina

Isabel Leonard, Cherubino

Alan Oke, Don Basilio

Nicholas Folwell, Antonio

Colin Judson, Don Curzio

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Robin Ticciati, Conductor

Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

Mark Valencia, 3rd August

Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates.

***11

All the world’s a jest: Falstaff returns to Glyndebourne

Mark Pullinger, 23rd July

Richard Jones' 2009 production returns to Glyndebourne after a long absence, but the 1940s comedy scrubs up fresh.

***11

A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne

Dominic Lowe, 29th June

Mariame Clément is a popular director at Glyndebourne, and her new production of Figaro shows her trademark approach to hardhitting comedy.

****1

Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on

Nick Boston, 8th June

Returning from the original run, Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies were joined by a strong cast and chorus for a revival of Barrie Kosky's striking production.

*****

Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Peter Quantrill, 17th May

Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong.

****1

Glyndebourne’s season opens with Rossini’s Barber of Seville

David Karlin, 16th May

Annabel Arden’s production provides joyous comedy, with vocal and orchestral performances of the very finest.

*****

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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.