These performances enable young audiences to immerse themselves, often for the first time, in the excitement of opera. These are fully staged, full length performances with an on-stage introduction specifically for schools.
This year we have two performances as part of the Glyndebourne Tour where your students can enjoy a fully staged production of either Verdi’s Rigoletto or Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.
Tuesday 22 October, 11.00am
Tickets: £8
Verdi’s own favourite opera, Rigoletto is a tragedy of Shakespearean scope. A dramatic score including some of the composers’ greatest tunes brings this dark opera to life. This bold new production will be premiering in the Tour – the first time Glyndebourne has staged this popular opera.
Rigoletto is suitable for students from Year 9 upwards (aged 13 and above).
Friday 25 October, 3.00pm
Tickets: £8
Light, lyrical and bursting with energy, L’elisir d’amore was the biggest success of Donzietti’s career – a comedy with the softest of hearts and the sweetest of melodies. Updating the action to the 1940s, Annabel Arden’s production celebrates the opera’s original joyful, colourful spirit, painting an affectionate picture of an Italy on the brink of political change.
L’elisir d’amore is suitable for students from Year 4 upwards (aged 8 and above).
All tickets are £8 and are allocated by ballot. To enter please click the button below and complete the online form.
Alternatively, you can return the booking form at the back of your brochure. Please complete the online or postal form and return it to us by Wednesday 22 May.
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What to expect
These performances are a unique experience – Glyndebourne’s world-famous auditorium filled entirely with students, a special introduction on stage, and then all the emotion, spectacle and intensity of a Glyndebourne opera, full-length and fully staged.
Glyndebourne’s Performances for Schools are supported by The Clore Duffield Foundation, The Alchemy Foundation, The Pilot Trust, The Davis Foundation and an anonymous donor through investment from Glyndebourne’s New Generation Programme which invests significantly in developing new audiences and artists of the future.
Glyndebourne’s education programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
