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From around the world: Glydebourne.(International)(Opera Review)
Back in the early 1930s, when John Christie was pondering adding a small opera house to his Sussex country estate, his heart was set on the performance of Wagner. He had it in mind to develop at Glyndebourne the unlikely proposition of an English Bayreuth. But on the advice of his creative team--largely culled from those fleeing newly-Nazified Germany--and of his wife, the down-to-earth soubrette Audrey Mildmay, he was persuaded to open with something smaller and simpler instead. The initial Le Nozze di Figaro, in 1934, set Glyndebourne's future course.
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- Magazine article from: Opera Canada September 22, 2009 700+ words
...Celebrating its 75th birthday this year, Glyndebourne Festival Opera has every reason to...EMI's five-CD The Very Best of Glyndebourne on Record set, in which voices from...stratospherically high. Meanwhile, Glyndebourne has become the brand leader in televised...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Glyndebourne. The house and estate of the Christie family near Lewes, Sussex, where the Glyndebourne Festival Opera was launched in 1934...surroundings and conditions. The first Glyndebourne Fest. opened on 28 May 1934 with Le...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 16, 2005 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-16 March 2005-PS FINANCIALS: Glyndebourne goes live with PS Financials; Accounting...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16032005 Glyndebourne, one of the world`s best known Opera...partial VAT recovery and control. Glyndebourne is able to recover a percentage of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post David S. Broder May 22, 1989 700+ words
...s most agreeable music sites-Glyndebourne. "Fahn-tas-tik!" breathed...theopening performances of the 1989 Glyndebourne Festival Opera were held. What Vita Sackville-West wrote of Glyndebourne in 1953 is equally true today...
- K-WEB: Glyndebourne, one of the world's most famous opera houses, goes live on...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 16, 1999 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-16 June 1999-K-WEB: Glyndebourne, one of the world's most famous...houses, goes live on the web at www.glyndebourne.com (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...site combines the timeless elegance of Glyndebourne with the latest Internet design tools...
- In perfect harmony: Glyndebourne & Gravetye.(English hotel Gravetye Manor and...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Apple, R.W. April 1, 1998 700+ words
...house hotel Gravetye Manor and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera are a lovely pair...Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera was born. Almost a...Elizabethan gem, twenty miles north of Glyndebourne, where William Robinson, pioneer...
- Glyndebourne warms to the mythic and heroic stuns Glyndebourne
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David Lister May 24, 1995 700+ words
...composer presented his first opera at the Glyndebourne Festival. When Sir Harrison last had...empty seats - an extreme rarity at Glyndebourne. So the faithful still have to be...he was absolutely thrilled to be at Glyndebourne, but Glyndebourne's owner, Sir...
- From Russia, with passion; Glyndebourne's strikingly young music director,...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) April 8, 2005 700+ words
...FIONA MADDOCKS OUT-OF-season Glyndebourne. No cars, no champagne corks, no...000-worth go in 24 hours, a new Glyndebourne record. Oblivious to marketing triumphs...National Orchestra, adding to his Glyndebourne responsibilities and to that job as...
