A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne

Johanna Wallroth (Susanna) and Michael Nagl (Figaro)

Madeleine Shaw (Marcellina), Johanna Wallroth (Susanna) and members of the Glyndebourne Chorus

Louise Alder (Countess) and Huw Montague Rendall (Count Almaviva)

Louise Alder (Countess) and Adèle Charvet (Cherubino)

By Dominic Lowe, 30 June 2025

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“Louise Alder’s Rosina was a study in still melancholy”

Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 29 June 2025

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Riccardo Minasi, Conductor

Mariame Clément, Director

Julia Hansen, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Paule Constable, Lighting Designer

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Michael Nagl, Figaro

Johanna Wallroth, Susanna

Huw Montague Rendall, Count Almaviva

Louise Alder, Countess Almaviva

Adèle Charvet, Cherubino

Alessandro Corbelli, Doctor Bartolo

Madeleine Shaw, Marcellina

Ru Charlesworth, Don Basilio

Vincent Ordonneau, Don Curzio

Elisabeth Boudreault, Barbarina

Alexander Vassiliev, Antonio

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

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.

*****

Philosophy trumps passion in Glyndebourne’s Tristan

Dominic Lowe, 29th July

Magnificent conducting from Robin Ticciati and fine singers make Glyndebourne's latest revival of Lehnhoff’s production musically rewarding, but cerebral philosophical elevation overpowers the earthy reality of lust and love.

***11

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Dominic Lowe

Dominic Lowe recently completed a degree in Classics, and one of his great interests is the reception of Greece and Rome in opera. A regular opera-goer since his very early teens, he is particularly keen on the hidden operatic gems of the 19th century. He is largely based in the South of England.

Visually stunning, psychologically unnerving: a strong new Figaro at Glyndebourne