Membership

Gift Membership

Find out more about our gift Membership options

Our Gift Memberships make the perfect present for opera lovers.

With a Glyndebourne Gift Membership they can enjoy the glittering array of opera on stage, all wrapped in the unforgettable Glyndebourne experience. Below you can explore all the options…

Gift Associate Membership

Associate Membership is our most popular Membership option.

Associate Membership is the route to becoming a full Member of the Festival Society, which has been at the core of Glyndebourne since the early 1950s. Find out more about the benefits of Membership here.

This gift includes the following benefits for Festival 2023:

  • A welcome pack
  • Priority access to Festival tickets after Festival Society Members
  • A ticket voucher worth £300
  • A complimentary Festival 2023 Programme Book worth £20

To purchase a gift membership there is a one-off Associate Membership registration fee of £500. After the first year there is an annual payment of currently £90.

In buying a gift membership you are confirming that:


Gift Membership for under 40s

FORTISSIMO MEMBERS ENJOY ACCESS TO FESTIVAL TICKETS BEFORE PUBLIC BOOKING PLUS 50% OFF A PAIR OF TICKETS.

Fortissimo is our new Membership for under 40s. Find out more about the benefits of Membership here.

To purchase a Fortissimo gift membership there is a one-off payment of £70 and you have the option to add a ticket voucher to include with your gift.

In buying a gift membership you are confirming that:

Gift Glyndebourne Encore

Ever wanted the performance to start again the moment it ends?

The ‘it can’t be over’ feeling afflicts our audiences a lot. This is why we created Glyndebourne Encore – a catalogue of our world-class operas available to watch in full, on demand.

Gift a Glyndebourne Encore subscription to your loved ones so they can enjoy extraordinary opera for a whole year – an annual gift subscription costs £79.99.

Or, gift the highlights of Festival 2022 with our rental bundle including Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Handel’s Alcina, Puccini’s La bohème and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias. £29.99 for a 30-day rental – launch price, available until 31 December 2022 (£39.99 from 1 January 2023).


Image credits: Header image, photo by Vicky Skeet | Audience, photos by James Bellorini

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