Glyndebourne 75th Anniversary Festival 2009

Glyndebourne Festival 2009 Season - 75th Anniversary 1934-2009
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Photo: Mike Hoban Glyndebourne wins TMA Award

The 75th Anniversary Festival has won the Achievement in Opera award at this year's TMA Awards.

The Glyndebourne Gardens in Summer Stage-Write 2009

Inside the box: on (and off) stage at the Glyndebourne Festival from our Chorus Blogger, Paul Hopwood.

Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra © Richard Cannon Orchestrations

Glyndebourne Festival 2009: Conductors, Editions and Instrumentation.

Stéphanie D’oustrac as Sesto in the 2009 Festival, Guilio Cesare. Photo: Tristram Kenton Your comments on the Festival 2009

Read a selection of comments we have received from our audience members during the 2009 Festival.

Tristan und Isolde

“I don’t think I have ever witnessed a more perfect realisation of a Wagner opera than this superb Tristan und Isolde.”
The Daily Telegraph

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L'elisir d'amore

Witty, charming and ultimately deeply touching, this is Italian opera at its intoxicating best.

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Rusalka

Dvorák’s radiant operatic masterpiece tells the story of a water nymph who longs to win the love of a handsome prince.

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Giulio Cesare

David McVicar’s acclaimed production of Handel’s grandest opera returns to mark the composer’s 250th anniversary celebrations

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The Fairy Queen

Purcell’s joyous response to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is a fascinating carnival of music, theatre and dance.

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Falstaff

This new production presents the exciting British baritone Christopher Purves in the larger-than-life role of the corpulent Falstaff.

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