Glyndebourne Festival 2013

[Belgrove]

Glyndebourne's 2013 Festival will be the last season with Vladimir Jurowski as music director. There are two new productions:
Ariadne auf Naxos, LPO cond. Jurowski
Hippolyte et Aricie, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment cond. William Christie,

and four revivals
Falstaff, OAE cond. Mark Elder
Le nozze di Figaro, LPO cond. Jeremie Rohrer
Don Pasquale, LPO cond. Enrique Mazzola
Billy Budd, LPO cond. Andrew Davis.

There will also be dramatic realisation of some of Britten's Canticles.

The enterprising collaboration with the Guardian continues, all the productions will be streamed online and shown in cinemas. Also for a week commencing on Boxing Day this year, Tristan & Isolde (from 2009) with Jurowski conducting will be streamed. What with this and R3 repeating the ROH Ring, it will be quite a Wagnerian Xmas.

Full details here

http://glyndebourne.com/news-article/glyndebourne-press-announcement

[David-G]

Falstaff with the OAE should be interesting. I think this is the latest opera they will have played.

[Nick Armstrong]

A new Ariadne auf Naxos is very interesting

Madame Isokoski as the Primadonna / Ariadne, I see. Not sure she will erase memories of Jessye, but arrangements may need to be made to see this. Magical piece

Rameau is wonderful live too, it's ages since I've indulged. Could be an expensive summer

[amateur51]

A new Ariadne auf Naxos is very interesting

Madame Isokoski as the Primadonna / Ariadne, I see. Not sure she will erase memories of Jessye, but arrangements may need to be made to see this. Magical piece

Rameau is wonderful live too, it's ages since I've indulged. Could be an expensive summer

In case Summer 2013 is anything like that of 2012, I'm staying at home with the live stream and a plate of prawn sarnies and a bottle of chilled prosecco

[Dave2002]

The Rusalka, by the touring company, currently on, is very good. Highly recommended. The first act, with the famous song, is actually the weakest and least interesting.

[David-G]

The Rusalka, by the touring company, currently on, is very good. Highly recommended. The first act, with the famous song, is actually the weakest and least interesting.

Recommendation seconded! I have seen this production twice at the Festival, and it is superb. I shall be going this Friday. But I would not agree that the first act is weaker. The first and third acts are balanced, and frame the central act. Of course the first act is optimistic - while the third is highly tragic. And yet despite the miserable ending to the story, the opera somehow manages to achieve a real "feel-good" factor at the end. That's part of the wonder of Rusalka.

It is, however, necessary to try to expunge all trace of the miserable Covent Garden production from one's memory.

[Nick Armstrong]

In case Summer 2013 is anything like that of 2012, I'm staying at home with the live stream and a plate of prawn sarnies and a bottle of chilled prosecco

That may indeed be what happens. Saves mixing with the blooming opera-goers (which I find increasingly hard to endure )

[David-G]

Saves mixing with the blooming opera-goers (which I find increasingly hard to endure )

I hope you would not mind mixing with me!

[Nick Armstrong]

I hope you would not mind mixing with me!

I'm sure you are an altogether more civilised operator than most of the stuffed shirts and their braying escorts...

[David-G]

Thank you! I would certainly like to think so... Though in fact my experience of Glyndebourne opera-goers is that they generally are nice and intelligent people.

[Dave2002]

Recommendation seconded! I have seen this production twice at the Festival, and it is superb. I shall be going this Friday. But I would not agree that the first act is weaker. The first and third acts are balanced, and frame the central act. Of course the first act is optimistic - while the third is highly tragic. And yet despite the miserable ending to the story, the opera somehow manages to achieve a real "feel-good" factor at the end. That's part of the wonder of Rusalka.

It is, however, necessary to try to expunge all trace of the miserable Covent Garden production from one's memory.

The Marriage of Figaro is absolutely outstanding. Different from Rusalka - which was very good - but the MofF is one of the best productions of anything I've ever seen. Probably be somewhat more miserable in places like Woking and Milton Keynes, but I'm sure that it'd be worth seeing if possible. If there are still any seats at Glyndebourne during the coming week for the remaining performances readers should take time off and go! Oh - in case you think it's going to be cheaper in Woking etc., think again. It'd probably cost more.