And the piece has featured in many opera house repertories both here and abroad, so it is an operetta that already counts as a pseudo-opera. It must have seemed a logical leavening of the modern ...

Cal McCrystal work on One Man, Two Guvnors and the two Paddington films, inspires his direction of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow to create perhaps the merriest show ever seen at this glorious ...

When Annabel Arden’s staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia first appeared at Glyndebourne in 2016, it marked the bicentenary of the opera’s premiere. It consequently felt like an important ...

Aptly prefiguring the festival’s production (opening next month) of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne presents The Marriage’s prequel. Rossini based his hit comic opera on the first ...

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