Day: 4 August 2021
Glyndebourne to support freelancers
Glyndebourne is launching a fund to support freelancer artists and creatives in the wake of the disproportionate effect the COVID-a9 pandemic has had on this sector. Details of the Glyndebourne Freelancer Fund will be developed ths year but the Company has committed to ring-fence funds equivalent to 10% of the value of its annual freelancer…
South Facing Festival to include ENO Tosca
South Facing Festival at Crystal Palace Bowl in Crystal Palace Park, South London, includes two open-air performances of Tosca from English National Opera on Friday August 27 and Sunday August 29. British conductor Richard Farnes will lead the ENO Orchestra and Chorus. The young cast will include Natalya Romaniw in the title role and Cavaradossi…
Glyndebourne joins the Race to Zero
Glyndebourne is working towards the long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral in its direct operations and, in conjunction with the COP26 meeting in Scotland this autumn, has signed up to the SME Climate Commitment to halve its CO2 emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Next January Glyndebourne marks the 10th anniversary…
Glyndebourne 2022 season focus on women composers
- 4th August 2021
- News
- Ailie Robertson
- Anna Appleby
- Ben Glassberg
- Cecilia Livingston
- Ethel Smyth
- Floris Visser
- Francesco Micheli
- Glyndebourne
- Johann Stuckenbruck
- Jonathan Cohen
- Jordan de Souza
- Laurent Pelly
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Mariame Clement
- Melanie Wilson
- Melly Still
- Michael Grandage
- Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Psappha Ensemble
- Robin Ticciati
- Samantha Fernando
- Sinéad O’ Neill
- Stéphanie d'Oustrac
- Stephen Langridge
- The Wreckers
Works by six female composers, comprising two new operas and a rarely performed influential work, will be staged at Glyndebourne in 2022. Pioneering feminist composer Ethel Smyth’s work The Wreckers will open Glyndebourne Festival 2022. The Company described the opera as a powerful, cinematic psychodrama set on the Cornish coast, the most successful of Smyth’s…