September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
An evening at Glyndebourne, a family-run summer festival in the English countryside, has been likened to a fairy tale. There are rituals—men in bow ties, women in evening dresses, picnics on the lawn (occasionally with cows grazing nearby), and extraordinary opera productions that aim to provoke, challenge, and entertain. The experience is similar to “the feeling of stepping back into Brideshead Revisited,” wrote the Times.1
The curtain first rose on the Glyndebourne Opera Festival on May 28, 1934, at the estate of John Christie, who “felt that [opera] was almost nonexistent...in ...
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