Glyndebourne Festival Opera
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an opera festival held at Glyndebourne, a country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
It has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt. Glyndebourne is most famous for its productions of Mozart operas; many of those productions are considered the finest ever done of those operas in the twentieth century, and the recordings from those stagings are still in print.
In the late 1980s, the Glyndebourne Festival staged a new production of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess". It was directed by Trevor Nunn, and was highly acclaimed. The production was subsequently expanded from the small Glyndebourne stage and videotaped in 1993 for television. Trevor Nunn again directed.
In recent years Mozart has continued to the mainstay of its repertory, but the company has received particular acclaim for its outstanding productions of Janacek and Handel operas.
The current director of music is Vladimir Jurowski.
[edit] Music directors
- Fritz Busch (1934–1951)
- Vittorio Gui (1952–1963)
- John Pritchard (1964–1977)
- Bernard Haitink (1978–1988)
- Andrew Davis (1989–2000)
- Vladimir Jurowski (2001–)
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