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Glyndebourne#2 Guest_Guest_richard_*_*Posted 14 May 2008 - 11:42 AM QUOTE(curzon @ May 13 2008, 10:13 PM)  Deep joy. I have secured a return ticket in the upper circle for CORONATION OF POPPEA. Cant wait! Sebastian  That's good. Enjoy. One of the myths about Glyndebourne is that tickets are difficult, if not impossible, to come by. Although this can be true of one or two very special productions - the recent Tristan for instance (though this would be true of any house) -by and large one can get in, with patience if need be, for virtually anything. There is an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph today about the difficult financial balancing act the festival (unlike the touring operation) has without subsidy. Evidently tickets for Fridays can be difficult to sell (a good tip!). Dickens once wrote (in Nicholas Nickleby) that nothing entices people into the theatre more than the feeling that they might not be able to get in, a fact Glyndebourne, perhaps subsconsiously, plays upon very successfully. The Telegraph article is also interesting on the choice of repertoire - evidently the key figure here is David Pickard. Perhaps afficionadoes could bombard him with their suggestions. The five operas most needing a Glyndebourne production? My five would be: 1 Delius' Village Romeo and Juliet 2 R Strauss' Die Aegyptische Helena 3 Saint-Saens' Henry VIII 4 Wagner's Das Liebesverbot 5 Busoni's Doktor Faust Other suggestions? #3 Guest_kittykatisha_*Posted 14 May 2008 - 12:41 PM QUOTE(Guest_richard_* @ May 14 2008, 11:42 AM) That's good. Enjoy. One of the myths about Glyndebourne is that tickets are difficult, if not impossible, to come by. Although this can be true of one or two very special productions - the recent Tristan for instance (though this would be true of any house) -by and large one can get in, with patience if need be, for virtually anything. There is an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph today about the difficult financial balancing act the festival (unlike the touring operation) has without subsidy. Evidently tickets for Fridays can be difficult to sell (a good tip!). Dickens once wrote (in Nicholas Nickleby) that nothing entices people into the theatre more than the feeling that they might not be able to get in, a fact Glyndebourne, perhaps subsconsiously, plays upon very successfully. The Telegraph article is also interesting on the choice of repertoire - evidently the key figure here is David Pickard. Perhaps afficionadoes could bombard him with their suggestions. The five operas most needing a Glyndebourne production? My five would be: 1 Delius' Village Romeo and Juliet 2 R Strauss' Die Aegyptische Helena 3 Saint-Saens' Henry VIII 4 Wagner's Das Liebesverbot 5 Busoni's Doktor Faust Other suggestions? #4 Guest_kittykatisha_*Posted 14 May 2008 - 12:46 PM
For anyone who hasn't been lucky enough to get Glyndebourne tickets but would still like to see "Coronation of Poppea", Young artists are putting on a production 18/7/08 at Longborough opera festival, and at St Pauls Chuch, Covent Garden Sunday 20th July at 6 pm, under baton of Lesley-Anne Sammons and direction of Jenny Miller
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