UK Summer Opera
Glyndebourne
Lewes, East Sussex, 21 May – 28 August
Tel: +44 (0)1273 815 000
Web: www.glyndebourne.com
After last year’s , Glyndebourne renews its Cornish credentials, but with a real rarity: an opera written in French, premiered in German, admired by Mahler and sharing with Britten’s the simmering tensions of village life played out against the elemental churn of the sea. Ethel Smyth’s makes its festival debut in the French original version directed by Melly Still and conducted by Robin Ticciati. Ticciati also presides over summer’s finale: a Poulenc double bill juxtaposing with the risqué delights of . Between the bookends are Michael Grandage’s 2012 update of Mozart’s to Franco’s Spain; Glyndebourne’s first new production in two decades of Puccini’s ; and a revival of Donizetti’s . Casting a Baroque spell is Handel’s , conducted by Jonathan Cohen with Jane Archibald as the sorceress.
