Arrangement from Thursday 27 June to Monday 1st July 2024,
4 nights
Giulio Cesare - G. F. Händel, the 28, 16h
Laurence Cummings - David McVicar
Louise Alder, Svetlina Stoyanova, Beth Taylor, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
Glyndebourne Opera
The Merry Widow - F. Lehár, the 29, nouvelle production, 17h
John Wilson - Cal McCrystal
Soraya Mafi, Danielle de Niese, Thomas Allen, Germán Olvera
Glyndebourne Opera
Die Zauberflöte - W. A. Mozart
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) created a piece of music history with this unique stage work, which since its premiere in September 1791 has become one of the most popular and most performed operas worldwide.When the theater and bon vivant Emanuel Schickaneder approached the financially and psychologically troubled composer in 1790 and presented him with a fairy-tale libretto, Mozart was immediately taken with it and added the masonic ideals and rites that were fashionable at the time. These gave the “Magic Flute” a completely different meaning and transformed the piece from a colorful magic pose into an almost testamentary appeal to humanity - entirely in the style of the spirit of the Viennese Classicism. Musically, this great German opera or Singspiel unites different styles such as opera seria, opera buffa and tragédie lyrique. Mozart’s genius united the French romance, the Italian aria and the German Lied to a fascinating kaleidoscope that inspires young and old alike. Popular arias from the "Magic Flute" such as “The Birdcatcher I am”, “Hell’s Revenge is boiling in my Heart”, or “This Portrait is Enchantingly Beautiful” are easily accessible to everyone. Goethe attested that this music alone would have provided a worthy accompaniment to his Faust.
Die Zauberflöte♪ - W. A. Mozart, the 30, 16h
Constantin Trinks - Barbe & Doucet
Lauren Snouffer, Aleksandra Olczyk, Paul Appleby, James Platt, Rodion Pogossov
Glyndebourne Opera