Glorious Glyndebourne

An exuberant brainchild of John Christie, Glyndebourne Festival Opera launched in 1934 with a production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Since then, Glyndebourne has become a byword for excellence, bringing together the finest operatic musicians of the day for extended rehearsals in an idyllic setting with uncompromised technical and theatrical standards. This celebration includes 12 productions from the last 13 years ranging across ‘signature’ works such as The Marriage of Figaro, classic productions such as The Rake’s Progress with designs by David Hockney, and new adventures in Baroque opera and Wagner.

Includes excerpts from
Mozart: Le nozze di FigaroJanácek
The Cunning Little Vixen
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Britten: Billy Budd
Verdi: Falstaff
Bizet: Carmen
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

Reviews

"… Here is a Figaro to put with the 1973 Glyndebourne production placed among the top five operatic DVDs. Figaro and Susanna are very much the centre here, and we like them not only because they sing and act well but because they are sympathetic in a modern way." (Gramophone - The Marriage of Figaro)

"... Lucy Crowe’s glowingly sung Vixen ...Tom Pye’s Hockneyish designs are evocative of a world of childish wonder, with animal costumes which cleverly suggest human characteristic." (The Daily Telegraph - The Cunning Little Vixen)

"The musical standards are universally high, as are the stage and camera direction." (Musicweb International)