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Carmélites to premiere in Glyndebourne Festival’s 2023 season
Barrie Kosky’s highly anticipated new production of Poulenc’s devastatingly powerful operaDialogues des Carmélites will premiere at the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival. It wasoriginally scheduled to appear at the event in 2020 before the season was cancelled due tothe COVID-19 pandemic. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dialogues des Carmélites tells acompelling true story of…
Fun and youthful exuberance in Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera
The weather does not seem too kind to outdoor operas in August and while we had a cool but lovely evening at the exquisite gardens of Nevill Holt for the first night of their sparky and energetic Don Giovanni black clouds threaten some of the further performances. Obviously this is bad news for those seated…
Nevill Holt Opera’s 2021 outdoor season
Opera’s most famous unjustifiably fallen woman and justifiably fallen man will be the two August offerings from Nevill Holt Opera’s ambitious 2021 outdoor festival. Shadwell Opera’s Music Director Finnegan Downie Dear and Nevill Holt Opera’s Artistic Director Nicholas Chalmers will conduct performances of Verdi’s La traviata and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. La traviata will be directed…