Posts for March
Casting Festival 2018 – a singer’s perspective
The casting process is a central part of life as a professional opera singer. To find out more about the experience of being cast and the process of p… Read more
Emma Bell on Vanessa: 'Everything I have ever sung of Barber’s I have loved'
Looking forward to her role debut in Vanessa, Emma Bell talks to Kate Harvey about the freedom of a blank canvas When Glyndebourne unveiled its 2018 … Read more
Sound all around: a special recording session for the V&A
Find out how singers Alice Coote and Danielle de Niese created a special binaural sound recording for the V&A's Opera: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition. Read more
Podcast: Madama Butterfly
Nagasaki, Japan at the turn of the 20th century; the trees are laden with cherry blossom and a beautiful young Geisha’s fate is about to be determin… Read more
Podcast: Il barbiere di Siviliga
Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia – a comedy of class and manners with a dark heart and some of the greatest operatic earworms ever written. … Read more
Podcast: La clemenza di Tito
This summer, Glyndebourne presents only its second ever production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast, e… Read more
Podcast: Brett Dean's Hamlet
Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been realised in thousands of versions. Now composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn have created an operatic r… Read more
Podcast: Being Hamlet - Allan Clayton and Samuel West in conversation
This summer Glyndebourne hosts the world premiere of a newly commissioned opera based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, by composer Brett Dean and librettist… Read more
Six of the best opera heroines
Life can be tough for women in opera. Across the repertoire, it’s not unusual to find them oppressed by husbands or fathers, betrayed in love, or … Read more
Podcast: Hipermestra
Cavalli’s Hipermestra, has taken over three hundred and fifty years to find its way to a UK stage. Premiered in 1658, the only other professional p… Read more