Glyndebourne Festival Opera

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Verdi, Mozart, Rossini and Janacek welcome back live audiences for the summer festival – and the gardens should be lovelier than ever

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Glamorous, sexy and funny, a Glyndebourne classic takes a traditional love story to new places, thanks to a scintillating production by David McVicar

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Live music returns to Glyndebourne with a mini-festival of orchestral pieces and opera, an Offenbach comedy at its heart. And an important new fund helps rising artists

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Unmissable screening of Benjamin Britten's finest opera with an all-star cast, in Michael Grandage's matchless production

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Three Mozart operas raise the curtain on a new season from the Sussex house that is keeping its doors closed this summer and streaming classic productions instead

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Armchair travel to Verona or St Petersburg with the world's greatest singers, players and dancers. Free for one month, Marquee TV has seats in every house

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Beethoven, Handel and Poulenc operas are given new productions, plus revivals

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Handel's opera of magic and transformation is staged at the summer opera house for the first time, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the pit

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Poulenc's heart-breaking opera is staged for the first time ever at Glyndebourne, with Danielle de Niese as a young aristocratic who makes a courageous choice

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Mozart's magical opera of love, adventure and revenge is set in a grand hotel

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If the offer is too good to be true, it's a con. But when Faust is down on his luck, he falls for such a deal, in Berlioz's timeless opera.

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Stand by for the hottest tickets in opera: this season's Glyndebourne booking opens to the public on 3 March. Here are the shows to catch

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Tongue-in-cheek interpretation of Handel's heroic opera stars counter-tenor Tim Mead and Elizabeth DeShong

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How much do you give up for love? So much that you are no longer the beloved person? That is the dilemma for the water nymph in Dvorák's traditional tale

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The Cinderella fairy tale goes on a magical musical tour, with composer Jules Massenet and director Fiona Shaw

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A welcome return of the stylish and genuinely funny production of Rossini's sparkling comedy, where youthful love triumphs over jealous old age

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Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

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Like an Impressionist painting in music, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande tells the story of a forbidden love

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A Bollywood version of Handel's opera is an all-singing, all-dancing treat. Giulio Cesare makes Glyndebourne Festival Opera the home of hot rhythm

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Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions

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Would you kill for the person you love? Would a true lover ask this of you? These are the dilemmas in Mozart's morally complex, musically delectable opera

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A Shakespeare adaptation and new commission opens at the Sussex country opera house

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With 20 performances of this classic opera, there has never been a better time to try the complete Glyndebourne experience

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Sharp suits and battle fatigues signal the 21st-century relevance of an ancient myth

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Things to do 

Puccini, Strauss and Handel top the bill in an attractive new season

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Glorious Mozart and stirring Verdi are served with smoked salmon and a big helping of ingenuity when the evenings lighten and the opera scene heads for the great outdoors

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A delectable and worldly-wise romp through sexual politics comes with a string of high-wire arias and witty ensemble numbers

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Melodious, richly textured and carried off with panache, this is a double-decker entertainment