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Insights for Glyndebourne Members

This is your Members’ area

Thank you for your loyalty and support

Below you can access previews of what’s coming up, the latest newsletters and your Member brochures. If you have any queries about your Membership, please get in touch:

Phone: +44(0)1273 815 400 (Monday to Friday, 10.00am-5.00pm)

Email: membership@glyndebourne.com

Introducing Festival 2026

We have another season of extraordinary opera lined up for you next summer. We can’t wait to share it all with you.

Festival 2026 features new productions of Puccini’s Tosca, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, alongside revivals of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, Britten’s Billy Budd and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Take a closer look below at our introducing series to find out more about each production.

Priority booking details

As a Member you have access to the widest choice of tickets and dates.

  • Friday 9 January 2026 Members’ ballot deadline
  • Friday 30 January 2026 Associate Members’ ballot deadline
  • Friday 20 February 2026 Members’ online booking opens
  • Sunday 22 February 2026 Under 40s Members’ booking opens*
  • Sunday 8 March 2026 Public booking opens

*For Festival 2026, in celebration of 75 years of Membership, Under 40s Members can book an additional two half-price tickets for Ariadne auf Naxos.

Can I return my Festival 2026 tickets?

Individual Members can return any number of Festival 2026 tickets for a full refund up to 5.00pm on Friday 6 March 2026 by phoning the Box Office on +44 (0)1273 815 000. After this date Members can exchange their tickets to another performance within the same season by contacting the Box Office at least five days prior to the date of the original performance. The £5 ticket exchange fee is waived for Members. 

For full ticket terms and conditions click here.

Useful info and downloads

Member Magazine

Your Member magazine, Recit, is packed with articles about this year’s Festival. Members will receive a copy in the post, or you can read it right now by downloading the PDF below. The latest issue includes interviews with singers Louise Alder and Huw Montague Rendall, who will perform in Le nozze di Figaro. Plus, Jetske Mijnssen talks about directing our first ever Parsifal. Gus Christie looks back at the tradition of hosting artists at Glyndebourne, and Richard Davidson-Houston looks ahead to an ambitious 2025.

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