Knight Crew is the latest initiative from Glyndebourne Education, placing youth and the community centre stage in a new commission from Glyndebourne’s first composer-in-residence Julian Philips and award-winning author Nicky Singer.
Every year Glyndebourne stages performances at Glyndebourne which are exclusive to schools and are designed to introduce young people to opera. Post your comments about our 2009 performances for schools here
Glyndebourne Youth Opera offers young people from 8 – 19 a yearly programme of workshops and performance opportunities. Participants experience all elements of opera including singing, acting, designing, writing and devising.
Workshops for schools, in Plymouth, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Woking and Stoke on Trent
Find out how to get involved and what's going on with our new opera for young people which will be performed on the Glyndebourne main stage in March 2010.
The new opera for the 2009 Festival by Julian Philips, with a libretto by Edward Kemp for The Jerwood Chorus Development Scheme which helps to nurture emerging operatic stars.Find out more
This new adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, commissioned especially by Glyndebourne for an audience of schools and families, is the perfect way to introduce young people to opera.
Glyndebourne Education and inmates from H. M. P. Lewes work together to create puppet shows based on Verdi's Falstaff.