Glyndebourne Opera's headline news this summer is its first-ever production of Britten's Billy Budd, to be directed by Donmar Warehouse director Michael Grandage in his own first venture into opera. A new Don Giovanni with Gerald Finley and a revival of the historic 1975 David Hockney Rake's Progress accompany listings of previous Festival productions of Macbeth, Cosi fan tutte and Hänsel und Gretel.
Billy Budd (Britten)
23, 26, 29 May, 2, 5, 8, 11, 16, 19, 22, 27 June
Glyndebourne’s first staging of the all-male opera of 1951, directed by Donmar Warehouse’s Michael Grandage in his opera directing debut. Sir Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra with South African baritone Jacques Imbrailo (winner of the Audience Prize at the 2007 Cardiff Singer of the World) as Billy, the saintly but flawed foretopman; Canadian bass Phillip Ens as Claggart, the black-hearted Master-at-Arms and British tenor John Mark Ainsley as Captain Vere. Designer Christopher Oram, lighting Paule Constable. 11 pfs
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
22, 27, 30 May, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 23, 25, 30 June, 3, 8, 11, 14, 17 July
A revival of the 2006 Festival production by Nicholas Hytner, with Sally Matthews, Allan Clayton, Tuva Semmingsen and Robert Gleadow, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras and James Gaffigan. Designer Vicki Mortimer, lighting Paule Constable. 16 pfs
Macbeth (Verdi)
13, 17, 20, 26, 29 June, 2, 6, 10, 12, 16, 21, 24 July
A revival of the 2007 Festival production by Richard Jones, with the LPO conducted by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, Vasily Petrenko, with Andrzej Dobber and Stephen Gadd as Macbeth, and Swedish-American soprano Erika Sunnegårdh in her Festival debut as Lady Macbeth. Designer Ultz, lighting Wolfgang Göbbel. 12 pfs
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
4, 7, 9, 15, 18, 20, 23, 31 July, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 27 August
A new production for the 2010 Festival by director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, while the conducting of the OAE is shared between Festival Music Director, Vladimir Jurowski, and the new Music Director of Glyndebourne on Tour, Jakub Hruša. Gerald Finley stars, joined by Luca Pisaroni as Leporello, Kate Royal as Donna Elvira, and the young Russian soprano Anna Samuil making her UK opera debut as Donna Anna. 17 pfs
Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
25, 30 July, 1, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17, 22, 25, 28 August
A revival of the 2008 Festival production by Laurent Pelly, with the LPO conducted by Robin Ticciati, and Alice Coote and Lydia Teuscher as Hansel and Gretel, and Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke as the Witch. Set designer Barbara de Limburg Stirum, costume designer Laurent Pelly, lighting Joël Adam. 11 pfs
The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky)
8, 11, 13, 16, 29, 21, 24, 26, 29 August
A revival of the 1975 Festival production designed by David hockney and directed by John Cox. The LPO is conducted by the Festival’s Music Director, Vladimir Jurowski, with Topi Lehtipuu and Miah Persson as poor mad Tom and his true love Anne, and Matthew Rose as Nick Shadow. 9 pfs
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