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Really enjoyed the Falstaff at Glyndebourne. Production was set in 1940s period and the sets were chocolate-box beautiful! Have never seen it before so would like to see a traditional production of it to compare it to now.
I am never a fan of children at the opera (very bad experiences) however these children were lovely and very well behaved. (Better than some of the adults in the audience it must be said, who gave a very bad example of talking whilst the opera was playing - Birbeck adult students excluded!) I bumped into class mate from opera course.
The cast and orchestra were given raptuous applause by the children. It must have been lovely for the cast and the orchestra to get such an overwhelmingly postive response from the children, as adults so rarely do as they tend to be very reserved.
Best wishes and thanks.
This was a terrific show, set in the 50s but working beautifully. Voices excellent, no duds, and Johnny Veira perfect in the role - not a drunken idiot as so often portrayed, but sympathetic bon-viveur and really quite cute!
The audience, average age 16? - was pretty good, though we missed the first few bars of each scene due to excess applause! They were pretty quiet though, compared to a "mature" audience after a boozy interval.
All in all a great success
Dear all,
I am sending a big thankyou from myself,and the students who attended the matinees last week. Personally I thought Cosi was terrific - it is such a difficult work to stage and I enjoyed it all, singing and production.
All but one of my students have not been to Glyndebourne before and everyone enjoyed it immensely. I travelled back to London with one Belgian student who did not stop talking about Glyndebourne and the production all the way to Victoria (!) Janet Canetty-Clarke also enjoyed it very much as did her students, and sends thanks.
Thankyou for giving us the chance to come - although it is a bit of a pain to organise (Adults are much fussier than children!) it was a great experience and we'll have another go next year.
Thanks also for the CDs, which have gone down very well. I hope I'll be able to come down before Christmas as you suggested to rummage in the boxes.
This is from the second interval at Glyndebourne. I just HAVE to tell you that this is the most fantastic production! I am enjoying every second. Every nuance.
Thank you so much for your help in securing seats for our pupils at Park Community School to come and enjoy the totally stunning performance on Tuesday.
It was an amazing experience for us all!
Our pupils are from an extremely impoverished area (in the bottom 3% of the country according to the Fisher Family Trust figures) and would normally not even consider the possibility of visiting an opera performance - both from a cultural and economic point of view, so it was a real thrill for me and Val Tuckwell (our head of music who was with WNO for many years) to see the effect it had on the students.
On a personal note, I have never heard such wondrous ensemble singing as I heard from Gilliam Ramm and Lucia Cirillo last Tuesday - simply miraculous!
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Thank you so much for a great workshop of Jenufa and would like to thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoyed the opera and am definitely considering to see more Glyndebourne operas. I felt that the workshop was fit for a king and helped all the participants find the key to the opera, Jenufa Thanks Dom! Many Thanks Benjamin Ely ( Richard Lander School)
Jenufa was an enjoyful and life changing experience. It has made me see that opera is a good form of entertainment. Andrew Watson (Richard Lander School) The workshop was fun and enlightening.
Jenufa: Thank you so for the opportunity to take part in the workshop and see the opera. The workshop was alot of fun and made me understand the opera better. I have never seen an opera before and was exited and nervous as to how i would find it - it was amazing. all the way through i had goosebumps and the voices were great - i've never heard anything so beautiful/amazing before!! I had a great day and shall never forget it! Thank you. Kate - Richard Lander School, Cornwall
JENUFA- Richard Lander School came to see Jenufa and really enjoyed it! A day off school lessons and we got to go shopping as well! The workshop they held for us was very well put together and Dom was very enthusiastic and lively. Claire and Paul were very talented and their performances eye-opening. Later we went to the pub the Old Bank and afterwards came to see Jenufa at Plymouth Theatre Royal. The opera was very enlightening and not something i would usual watch but it was Amazing and has inspired me dramatically. Katie G Richard Lander School
I think that Jenufa was a very moving opera, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The workshop was amazing, I learnt a lot from it. The actual storyline was interesting, and was complicated, but good. I would definetly see it again if given the oppurtunity. Thanks, Billy G (Richard Lander School)
Thank you so much for the workshop and the opera. The opera was very moving and i throughly enjoyed it. It was a great experience . Hoping too see another one soon. Many thanks, Jamie C (Richard Lander School)
I came to see Jenufa at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth with my GCSE music group from Richard Lander school. The opera was amazing and everyone really enjoyed it and it made me think of opera in a different way like I used to when I heard the word opera fat ladies in Viking helmets singing. The workshop was amazing as well I really enjoyed it and every one got involved. Thanks for everything Hannah Cracknell Richard Lander School
I thought that the opera was very enjoyable and interesting throughout. thank you for the experience and i would be glad to see it again. many thanks joshua s from Richard Lander School
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