‘The graciousness of civilisation here surely touches a peak where the arts of music, architecture and gardening combine for the delight of man’ wrote Vita Sackville-West with reference to Glyndebourne in 1953. For the last 60 years that description of Glyndebourne, as an increasingly famous centre for opera, does indeed hold true, but the early history of the estate was rather more modest...
To find out more please download the full article on the right hand side of this page
You may also be interested in:
A Glyndebourne Bibliography
Oral Histories
Memories of Glyndebourne