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The Lesbian Project PodcastEpisode 85 FREE: the LP does Glyndebourne; Desexing Society pod; was Margot Leadbeatter a lesbian?; are you a doppelbanger? and other vital questions.Glyndebourne:THE CANAPES….Desexing Society podcast on Lesbians in Oz https://x.com/DesexingSociety/status/1941048356899631259?t=Js_rY_ug4neobq_iCYBgFA&s=19Lesbian prison angle for the Erin Patterson casehttps://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/mushroom-killer-erin-patterson-locked-35546058Gateways club gets a blue plaquehttps://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/chelseas-secret-lesbian-haven-honoured-with-english-heritage-blue-plaque-82264/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateways_clubLesbian slanghttps://www.refinery29.com/en-au/lesbian-slang-terms-definitions#slide-17 Send us your dilezzas! thelesbianprojectpod@substack.com 2025-07-1845 min
In ConversationDanielle de Niese: The coolest soprano in the houseThe New York Times Magazine dubbed Danielle de Niese as “opera’s coolest soprano”. Melbourne born, she has gained worldwide acclaim for her beautiful stagecraft, and superb communication. She regularly appears on the world’s most prestigious opera and concert stages, from Hamburg to New York, and from Glyndebourne to the BBC Proms. She has six solo albums to her name, and has won an Emmy for her TV presentation.In this conversation, Danielle speaks about her role debut as Carmen with Opera Australia, exploring her meticulous preparation for the part including her interpretation of the character and insights...2025-07-1655 min
Your Places or MineGLYNDEBOURNE: THE HOUSE THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THE OPERA FESTIVALSend us a textPicnic hampers, black tie, world-class opera — it’s the season for Glyndebourne, the festival that sired the happy, uniquely British phenomenon of country house opera. This week Clive and John discuss the house from which it all began (still central to the experience) as well as the headstrong, eccentric but visionary John Christie, founder of the festival in the 1930s. They reveal a tale of love, passion (for music), setbacks, epic dreams and triumph… somebody should write an opera about it.2025-05-2949 min
Ö1 KulturjournalIsrael beim Songcontest + „Parsifal“ (Glyndebourne) + Shaded + Inklusion JETZT!Ö1 Kulturjournal +++ Moderation: Christine Scheucher +++ Israels Beitrag zum Songcontest. Nikolaus Wildner +++ „Parsifal“ beim Festival Glyndebourne. Susanne Lettenbauer +++ „Shaded - The Witness“ im Kino. Jakob Fessler +++ Inklusionsprojekt „Jetzt!“. Julia Sahlender +++ Eine Eigenproduktion des ORF, gesendet am 16.5.2025.2025-05-1620 min
L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures (2024-2025) - Wajdi MouawadSéminaire - Louis Langrée - Dérives et malentendu du réel : Le temps, un fragment de musiqueWajdi MouawadCollège de FranceAnnée 2024-2025L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures (2024-2025)Séminaire - Louis Langrée - Dérives et malentendu du réel : Le temps, un fragment de musiqueLouis LangréeDirecteur de l'Opéra-ComiqueRésumé« Un jour, quelqu'un, quelque part, lui est arrivé quelque chose. » Temps. Sujet. Espace. Événement. Si toute narration s'articule toujours autour de ces quatre dimensions, d'entre elles, le temps tient...2025-02-251h 23
This Day in Scottish HistoryAugust 24, 1947Today, we turn our attention to a landmark event in the cultural landscape of Scotland and the world—the opening of the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, which took place on August 24, 1947. This festival, now known simply as the Edinburgh International Festival, has grown to become one of the most prestigious and influential arts festivals in the world, showcasing the very best in music, theatre, opera, and dance.The roots of the Edinburgh International Festival are deeply entwined with the aftermath of World War II. The idea for the festival was conceived by a gr...2024-08-2406 min
parterre box presents Chris's CacheMonteverdi: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Glyndebourne 1972)Penelope: Janet Baker Minerva: Anne Howells Melanto: Janet Hughes Ericlea: Virginia Popova Giunone: Vivien Townley Fortuna: Patricia Craig Amore: Laureen Livingstone L’umana Fragilità: Annabel Hunt Ulisse: Benjamin Luxon Telemaco: Ian Caley Eurimaco: John Wakefield Iro: Alexander Oliver Eumete: Richard Lewis Nettuno: Clifford Grant Giove: David Hughes Antinoo/Tempo: Ugo Trama Pisandro: John Fryatt Anfinomo: Bernard Dickerson London Philharmonic Conductor: Raymond Leppard Glyndebourne Festival Opera at Royal Albert Hall Proms 3 August 1972 Broadcast2024-08-212h 47
Tea with NettyTea with Netty: Soprano Louise AlderSoprano extraordinaire Louise Alder joins Netty for tea in Glyndebourne. Louise, who is currently performing as Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, enlightens us with her family, educational and versatile singing background, her passion for musical theatre, and her multilingual talents.Louise, takes us behind the scenes of the opera Giulio Cesare. She shares her on-stage experiences and talks about juggling a diverse vocal repertoire, as well as the demands of singing and dancing. Louise also shares her adventures in Frankfurt and takes a deep dive into languages, from which we might learn a thing or two! Catch...2024-07-1937 min
parterre box presents Chris's CacheRossini: La Cenerentola—complete final scene (Glyndebourne 1959)Anna Maria Rota, Vittorio Gui Glyndebourne Festival, 9 August 1959, Broadcast2024-01-1709 min
RNIB ConversationsVocalEyes What’s On 16 November 2023Now for a roundup of accessible arts events as RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey catches up with Jess Beal from VocalEyes, the national audio description charity providing access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people to share some of the accessible events that are featured in their regular email newsletter.
Audio described shows and events included:
L’Elisir d’Amore - Wednesday 22 November, 7pm, touch tour 6pm, Glyndebourne, Lewes
Don Giovanni - Friday 24 November, 4pm, touch tour 3pm, Glyndebourne, Lewes
Backstairs Billy - Wednesday 29 November, 7.30pm, Duke of York’s Theatre...2023-11-1606 min
Sounds and Sweet Airs9. Brett Dean: Composing 'Hamlet'If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter.Episode 9In this episode Michelle Assay interviews composer, violist and conductor Brett Dean on his 2017 opera Hamlet, discussing his approach to Shakespeare's original play, the composition process, collaborating with librettist Matthew Jocelyn as well as various performers, and the opera in performance at Glyndeborne and beyond. 0:52 - Initial approach to Hamlet; researching other productions; working with librettist Matthew Jocelyn; inspiration from cinematic adaptations of Hamlet (including Michae...2023-10-0855 min
Live rozhovoryDirigent Václav Luks o novém scénickém provedení opery Semele Georga Friedricha Händela na festivalu v GlyndebournePrestižní letní operní festival v Británii uvede poprvé Händelovu operu Semele. V čele orchestru bude český specialista na starou hudbu.Dirigent a umělecký šéf Collegia 1704 Václav Luks se v rámci rezidence v Glyndebourne již podruhé v tomto roce ujal vedení londýnského orchestru dobových nástrojů Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Nové scénické provedení opery Semele Georga Friedricha Händela zhlédnou diváci ve festivalové premiéře 23. července. Do konce srpna pak organizátoři festivalu naplánovali celkem 11 repríz.2023-07-1910 min
Opera Box ScoreEurovision Meets Opera! ft. David Alden[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Olivier-award winning stage director David Alden, who is creating a new production of “The Flying Dutchman” for the Santa Fe Opera. George is in New Mexico with his OBS poncho, bolo tie, and handheld recorder to get the scoop…
[21 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… ticket sales are inching upward at the Met *whilst* glitter rains down at Glyndebourne…
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Tea with NettyTea with Netty: Conductor Evan RogisterAmidst the summer season, Evan Rogister, currently conducting Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne joins Netty for a cuppa. He takes us through his intriguing past which led to the opera bug and admission into one of the world’s most prestigious performing arts schools. There’s also an exciting revelation about our well-loved theme tune... From a child singer to a trombonist and now conductor, multi-talented maestro Evan Rogister makes his Glyndebourne debut and conducts the OAE, his first British orchestra. Evan talks about his musical influences, an alternative career path in political science and shares his approaches to co...2023-06-0538 min
AA OperaEp.99 - Aidan OliverThis week Ash + Avi chat with Conductor & Chorus Director Aidan Oliver. We talk about the Glyndebourne that we know and love as well as Aidans work with Edinburgh Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Voices. We discuss the joys of choral music and tips on auditioning!
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Regards croisés par Christophe RoussetMariame Clément, metteuse-en-scèneMariame Clément est née à Paris. Après des études de lettres et d'histoire de l'art à l'École normale supérieure, elle vit aux États-Unis puis à Berlin, où elle effectue ses premiers stages à la Staatsoper Unter den Linden.Elle signe sa première mise en scène en 2004 avec Il Signor Bruschino/Gianni Schicchi à l'opéra de Lausanne. Elle a travaillé entre autres à Athènes (Le Comte Ory), Tel Aviv (Il Viaggio a Reims), Santiago du Chili (Lulu), Oviedo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Séville (Agrippina), Nuremberg (Le Nozze di Figaro), Essen (Le Grand Macabre, Salome), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Pla...2023-01-1819 min
Front RowFilmmaker Todd Field on Tár, Glyndebourne tour cancellation, Debut novelist Jyoti PatelTár is a psychological drama about an imaginary conductor, Lydia Tár, which has already made waves both for its central performance by Cate Blanchett and for its striking, sometimes dreamlike story about the abuses of power. It is tipped for awards and Cate Blanchett has already won the Golden Globe for her performance. The writer and director, Todd Field, joins Front Row.The news that the celebrated opera company Glyndebourne has cancelled its national tour for 2023, due to the recent cut to its Arts Council funding, was received as the latest bombshell on the UK’s op...2023-01-1142 min
Harbour for the ArtsGlyndebourne Opera, Harry and Meghan, Wait...How did I get into opera?If you have not been keeping up with the Arts Council's latest budget slash in England, I have the details for you! This time we are talking about Glyndebourne Opera! If you don't know it, look it up you will be amazed at the work they do. I seriously hope to sing there one day.A question I always get is how I started singing opera. In this episode, I am going to share that story, as well as why I Harry and Meghan are the perfect fit for supporting the arts in the UK. ...2023-01-0717 min
Tea with NettyTea with Netty: Artistic Director Stephen LangridgeFrom Director of Opera and Drama at Gothenburg Opera to Glyndebourne's current Artistic Director, Stephen Langridge has directed many productions throughout his career for renowned opera houses around the world. He talks about taking his first (literal) steps at Glyndebourne to making a return during the pandemic and everything in between. Stephen looks back at his musical background and education in the dramatic arts which fuelled his career, with lots of fun and fascinating discoveries along the way. ---Tea with Netty is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s podcast hosted by viola pla...2022-11-1742 min
Tea with NettyTea with Netty: conductors Ben Glassberg & Chloe RookeBen Glassberg is a young conductor much in demand by several opera companies including ENO and La Monnaie, and Chloe Rooke, who has been working as his assistant on Don Pasquale at Glyndebourne this summer with OAE, is also a prodigiously talented conductor, on the threshold of her career. Ben has been principal conductor of Glyndebourne on Tour since 2019, and is also Music Director of Opera de Rouen and Principal Guest Conductor of Volksoper Wien. Here they discuss their surprisingly similar routes to opera conducting, as well as how to get a foothold in the early stages, w...2022-08-1942 min
Music MattersMichael Tilson Thomas, Ethel Smyth's The WreckersKate Molleson visits Glyndebourne Festival Opera to hear about its new production of Ethel Smyth’s ‘The Wreckers’ – the first major staging of this tale of a hostile coastal community in many, many years, heard, as the composer intended, with its original French libretto. This new edition of the opera was researched and typeset by Martyn Bennett, Head of Music Library and Resources at Glyndebourne, using source material from the original score, with missing fragments orchestrated by Tom Poster, and additional help from the British Library.‘Briefly: A Delicious Life’ is a new novel by the writer Nell Stevens...2022-05-2144 min
In the StudioGlyndebourne's MessiahHandel’s Messiah is one of the great Christian works of Easter. Jeff Lloyd Roberts follows the creation of a new production by the Glyndebourne opera company, looking at the challenges of mounting a huge choral piece and touring with it during a time of rising Covid rates.While most oratorios put the spotlight on the soloists, Handel’s Messiah has the chorus at its heart. We hear from performers in one of the foremost choruses in international opera, as they take on a piece that wholeheartedly showcases its singers in everything from the exhilarating He Trusted in G...2022-04-1229 min
The thriving singer's podcastDavid Jones voice teacher and vocal pedagogue on collaborative teaching, what determines a voice type and diagnosing Fach, the psychology of teaching, connecting mind and body and voice trauma.Today’s guest and my very first guest on the Thriving singer podcast is non-other than the great David Jones, who has developed an international career as an author, vocal pedagogue, teacher of singers, and teachers in Europe and the U.S. David is celebrating 50 successful years of teaching the fall of 2022 He has trained singers performing at opera houses and festivals such as the New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Vienna Staatsoper, Opera North U.K. the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Sal...2022-04-071h 20
Aria CodeTo Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet“To be or not to be, that is the question.” It’s hard to think of a more famous line from a more famous play. In this iconic speech from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the troubled Danish prince asks whether this whole life thing is even worth it. But “to be or not to be'' is not the only question we’re asking this week.
When everyone knows this line so well, how do you make it fresh again? How does adapting Shakespeare’s play into an opera change our understanding of the text? In this episode, host Rhiannon Gidden...2021-11-1741 min
AJ Climate ChampionsDuncan Baker-Brown on mining the AnthropoceneEpisode 18. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Architect and academic Duncan Baker-Brown shares the latest developments in material reuse, including his proposal for a pavilion at Glyndebourne Opera, sourced from materials on the Glyndebourne estate and the surrounding Sussex weald.
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The Opera PodDuncan Rock - BaritoneBorn in Scotland and brought up on the West Coast of Australia, Duncan was set to become a lawyer, until his interest in music led him to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on a full scholarship, and on to the National Opera Studio. Finding his early niche as a sailor in Billy Budd at both Glyndebourne and English National Opera, Duncan went on to become a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne, and later a Harwood Young Artist at ENO. Winner of both the John Christie Award and the Chilcott Award his work now t...2021-04-2933 min
In the 'House Seats'Ep10: Stephan Ulberini, opera star, musician, vocal teacher and musical theatre performer.Send us a textStephan is a Welsh Italian Tenor who trained at The Royal Academy of Music London, graduating with a Masters Degree in Opera, under the tutelage of Ryland Davies. Prior to this, he gained his initial degree in Music from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & DanceHis operatic works to date include The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne), The Magic Flute (Glyndebourne), La Damnation de Faust (Glyndebourne), Cendrillon (Glyndebourne), La Traviata (Glyndebourne), Der Rosenkavalier (Glyndebourne), Madama Butterfly (Glyndebourne), Saul (Glyndebourne), Vanessa (Glyndebourne), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Glyndebourne), The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne), T...2020-07-1236 min
Steve Wright’s Big GuestsDanielle de Niese & Chris Addison and Jazzie BDanielle and Chris host the Glyndebourne Opera Cup and Jazzie B's got Soul II Soul shows.2020-03-0514 min
Talking Classical PodcastEp. 23: Patrick Terry*All Talking Classical podcasts formerly on SoundCloud have been redirected to Anchor.*
An interview with rising young countertenor Patrick Terry, who will be performing in Handel’s oratorio Susanna at the Royal Opera House in early March. Many thanks to Patrick for taking time out of a full day of rehearsals to talk, and the Press & Communications Team at the Royal Opera House for initiating and organising this interview! Published 3rd March 2020; interview recorded 8th February 2020. Winner of the Loveday Song Prize at the 2017 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Second Prize at the 2019 Handel Singing Competition and a Samling Art...2020-03-0345 min
Amicus Radio« Le Mystère von Bülow » de Barbet SchroederRésumé de l’épisode
Le sixième épisode des Acteurs du droit est consacré au film Le Mystère von Bülow, de Barbet Schroeder, sorti sur les écrans en 1990. Nous voilà plongés au cœur d’un fait divers qui défraya la chronique aux États-Unis au début des années 1980 : la richissime Sunny von Bülow, membre de la jet set new-yorkaise, tombe dans un coma sans issue et son mari, l’énigmatique Claus von Bülow, est accusé de l’avoir assassinée. Pour se défendre en appel, il engage l’avocat Alan Dershowitz, profe...2020-02-2634 min
Seattle Opera PodcastFLIGHT 101One of late twentieth-century opera’s great successes, Flight, with music by Jonathan Dove to a libretto by April DeAngelis, makes a long-awaited Seattle premiere in 2021. This “Marriage of Figaro for the 1990s” is a bold and beautiful opera, with a message more pertinent than ever. Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces Flight, with musical examples from the commercially available recording, available from Chandos records at https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010197. David Parry conducted the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra in 2003, and the cast includes Christopher Robson as the Refugee, Claron McFadden as the Controller, Richard Coxon and Mary Plazas...2020-01-0218 min
Music Therapy ConversationsEp 33 John WilsonIn episode 33 Luke talks to an old friend of his, the conductor John Wilson. John was born in Gateshead and studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, where in 2011 he was made a Fellow. Back in 1994, he formed his own orchestra, the John Wilson Orchestra, dedicated to performing music from the golden age of Hollywood and Broadway, and with whom he has appeared regularly across the UK, including at the BBC Proms annually since 2009. In March 2019, John was awarded the prestigious ISM Distinguished Musician Award for his services to music. He is now in...2019-12-1142 min
Opera Box ScoreThankful for Jessye!It’s a Thanksgiving 'Chalk Talk'! The OBS-ers share what they’re grateful for in Operaland just in time for Turkey Day... But first, it’s a very special 'HOF' from Matt, where he brings you a long overdue tribute to the late, great Jessye Norman... In the 'Two Minute Drill', the Met’s credit rating gets downgraded, a Glyndebourne director gets fired, and the Vienna State Opera puts on an opera written by a woman... Hey, it only took ‘em 150 years...
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From the Producer's Office7. In conversation with Stephen Langridge, Artistic Director of GlyndebourneFrom the Producer's Office is a series of informal podcasts with Opera Holland Park's Director of Opera, James Clutton. In conversation with creatives and collaborators across the industry, we explore the process of putting opera on stage, and how the artists approach their craft.
In this episode, James is joined by Stephen Langridge, Artistic Director of Glyndebourne. They discuss Artistic Direction, Stephen's previous work at Gothenburg Opera and their approaches to make opera a sustainable artform.2019-11-0536 min
WRCJ In-Studio GuestsMichael Fabiano - October 2, 2019Since his 2007 Grand Prize-winning performance at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, tenor Michael Fabiano has been one of opera’s fastest-rising stars. The University of Michigan grad has headlined performances around the world including those with the San Francisco Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Deutche Oper Berlin, Vancouver Opera and more. Fabiano currently appears in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Puccini’s Manon.
Michael Fabiano is featured in the Michigan Opera Theatre’s season-opening gala concert on October 12th at the Detroit Opera House. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with Michael about his days at the University of Michigan..and two experi...2019-10-0115 minTea with NettyIntroducing Tea with Netty: Behind the Scenes at GlyndebourneWhat's brewing backstage with the Orchestra. Tea with Netty is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's new podcast hosted by viola player Annette Isserlis (Netty). Over a cuppa (or something a little stronger...), Netty chats with a variety of conductors, players and other guests as she 'spills the tea' on the side of classical music you don't normally hear.Netty kicks off our new podcast with OAE players Martin Kelly and Julia Kuhn before they rehearse at the summer opera festival, Glyndebourne.We get to hear two different perspectives on OAE pit-life a...2019-08-2831 min
The Outlook Podcast ArchiveThe male countertenor who replaced a leading ladyPolish singer Jakub Jozef Orlinski is something of a rarity in the operatic world. Not only is he a countertenor – meaning his range is high compared to other male singers – but he’s also a breakdancer. He's brought his dancing skills to the stage, and most recently to his part in Rinaldo, where he stepped in to take the title role after the leading lady pulled out. Emily Webb goes to meet Josef at Glyndebourne, the opera house in the English countryside.Producer: Deiniol BuxtonPicture: Jakub Jozef Orlinski in Rinaldo
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Inside OperaIn Conversation With Stephen LawlessStephen grew up in the town of Warrington, England.Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England.The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon.Sir Trevor Nunn is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company.Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.Richard II is a history play by William Shakespeare.John Barton was a British theatre director and (with...2019-07-2500 min
Opera Box ScoreKnow Your Summer Festivals!The summer festival road trip continues as the OBS yobs gatecrash the Glyndebourne Festival in England... 'Pop Quiz' returns, as Matt tests the collective brainpower (some would say brain freeze) of Oliver and Tobias... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, hirings and firings are happening fast and furious this week in Operaland…
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Brighton Festival PodcastBrighton Festival Bitesize - Eye to Eye 2Melita meets the writer and members of the cast of Eye to Eye, the Glyndebourne collaboration that tells the story of a mother and child with a 100-voice choir.2019-05-1309 minBrighton Festival PodcastBrighton Festival Bitesize - Eye to EyeA preview of Eye to Eye, commissioned in partnership with Glyndebourne. Created by writer and theatre maker Sheila Hill, the piece features a voiced text, jazz interludes and a 100 voice choir.2019-05-1003 min
Brighton Festival PodcastBrighton Festival - Episode 4Melita & Rebecca give you the inside track of the Brighton Festival. In the chair today: AKA Trio's Antonio Forcione; Sarah Hutchings on this year's City Reads book choice; the cast of Kneehigh's Dead Dog in a Suitcase; the Glyndebourne collaboration Eye to Eye; and an interview with Stef O'Driscoll, the artistic director who brought us the Storytelling Army.2019-05-1045 min
Musikrevyn i P2En världscellist spelar sitt testamentePanelen faller i trance över Yo Yo Mas nya inspelning av Bachs cellosviter, går på picknickopera i Glyndebourne och debatterar hur ofta en solist egentligen bör skrika under en violakonsert. Veckans skivor:
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN SYMPHONY NO. 2 Symfoni nr 2, The Age of Anxiety av Le...2018-11-2500 min
Desert Island DiscsDanielle de NieseDanielle de Niese is a soprano who has taken starring roles with leading opera companies around the world. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Sri Lankan parents, and at the age of eight she won a national TV talent show, singing a pop medley. When she was ten, her parents moved the family to Los Angeles, so that she could pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer. She also presented a TV programme, L.A. Kids, for which she won an Emmy award at the age of 16. She made her professional operatic debut when she...2018-09-1636 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018Danielle de NieseDanielle de Niese is a soprano who has taken starring roles with leading opera companies around the world. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Sri Lankan parents, and at the age of eight she won a national TV talent show, singing a pop medley. When she was ten, her parents moved the family to Los Angeles, so that she could pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer. She also presented a TV programme, L.A. Kids, for which she won an Emmy award at the age of 16. She made her professional operatic debut when she...2018-09-1636 min
Musicians’ WeekendEpisode 6 feat. Septura brass septetLove Island, Wimbledon, and never seeing your other half feature in this week’s episode. We discuss the new music director of the RPO, a musical gift given to the New Zealand Prime Minister’s baby and a 103 year old pianist. Our special guests this week are Simon Cox and Matt Knight from brass septet Septura. We conclude with some upcoming concerts and a rather fishy weird gig of the week story.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra appoints Vasily Petrenko as new music director: https://www.rpo.co.uk/about/news-press/80-news/299-vasily-petrenko-looks-forward-to-becoming-the-royal-philharmonic-orchestra-s-music-director
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Glyndebourne-OperaA Moderate Soprano special: an interview with actor Roger AllamIn this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast Katie Derham visits the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End which is currently home to a play by one of Britain's foremost playwrights, Sir David Hare. The play is called The Moderate Soprano and tells the extraordinary story of the founding of Glyndebourne by John Christie and his wife Audrey Mildmay. Katie’s guest is the Olivier Award-winning actor Roger Allam who plays the role of John Christie and tells us what it’s like to portray a man for whom opera was the guiding passion and principle of his life...2018-06-2213 min
Glyndebourne-OperaPelléas et Mélisande Bonus: an interview with author Kate MosseIn this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast Katie Derham is joined by novelist Kate Mosse, author of the multi-million selling Languedoc Trilogy and a major new historical series that starts with the first novel The Burning Chambers, published in May 2018.
The music of Debussy has been a lifelong passion for Kate and the composer is an off-stage character in the second book in her Languedoc trilogy – Sepulchre. In this podcast, Kate discusses her love for Debussy and his opera Pelléas et Mélisande, which is being staged at Glyndebourne Festival 2018.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey and Nathan Gowe...2018-06-1531 min
Glyndebourne-OperaVanessa podcast‘It’s romantic opera, reinvented for the twenty-first century.’ In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast we explore Samuel Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Vanessa, a story of longing, loss and manipulation set to a sumptuous score. Contributions come from critic David Benedict, opera director Keith Warner and Alexandra Coghlan, Glyndebourne’s Opera Content Specialist.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2018
The music in this podcast is from the Chandos and BBC Co-production of Vanessa. Music courtesy of G. Schirmer Inc (Chester Music Ltd). Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the role of Vanessa...2018-05-1819 min
Glyndebourne-OperaPelléas et Mélisande podcastPelléas et Mélisande is Debussy’s only complete opera and with it he rightly earned his place as one of the most imaginative and pioneering composers of the early twenty-first century. In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast we explore this seminal work with the help of British author Kate Mosse, Julian Johnson, Professor of Music at Royal Holloway College and Glyndebourne archivist Julia Aries.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2018
The music in this podcast is from the 1963 recording of Pelléas et Mélisande released on the Glyndebourne Label. Music...2018-05-1124 min
Brighton Festival PodcastBrighton Festival 2018 Bitesize - Classical music at Brighton FestivalMelita Dennett speaks to Brighton Festival's Gill Kay who programmes the Festival's classical music strand.
They speak about lunchtime performance and events at Glyndebourne.
To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org
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#Brighton #Arts #Culture2018-05-1006 min
Glyndebourne-OperaGiulio Cesare podcastIn this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast, we explore the tangled web of politics and love in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with contributions from top mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, William Fitzgerald, Professor of Latin Language & Literature at King’s College London and Suzanne Aspden, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Oxford.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2018
The music in this podcast is from the Glyndebourne production of Giulio Cesare, directed by David McVicar, which was recorded as a co-production between Glyndebourne and Opus Arte in 2006. The musical edition by Winton Dean and...2018-05-0420 min
Heritage Radio Network On TourRob Mondavi Jr. and Rick Rubel at CHSWFF18For this special on-location episode of The Grape Nation, Sam Benrubi welcomes wine luminaries Rob Mondavi Jr. and Rick Rubel.
Rob Mondavi, Jr is a fourth generation winemaker who has been part of the industry for over thirty years. He was raised on a vineyard in the Napa Valley and worked in a variety of roles at the family winery while growing up. He is an entrepreneur who started bike tour and a cigar importing businesses and has also worked at a major wine distributor. He spent time in sales and marketing for the Robert Mondavi Corporation...2018-03-0534 min
Open CountryThe Gardens at GlyndebourneHelen Mark swaps her anorak for a frock as she visits the summer festival at Glyndebourne to discover how its famous gardens inspire singers, artists and opera-goers. Set within the South Downs National Park, the gardens and surrounding landscape have become an integral part of the experience of going to the opera at Glyndebourne. Garden adviser John Hoyland and the garden team give Helen a tour and share how each distinctive themed area is created and maintained. As the audience begins to arrive for the evening performance, Helen talks to conductor William Christie and singers Danielle de Niese and...2017-09-0525 min
Opera Centre - 🎼 Views & NewsLatest opera news from TwitterPaul - our clumsy news reader makes his first news broadcast. He'll improve - provided he practises. Welsh National Opera- SF Opera - English Touring Opera - Glyndebourne- Wexford - Wagner Conductors2017-09-0408 min
Glyndebourne-OperaLa clemenza di Tito podcastIn this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast we explore Mozart’s discourse on the power of forgiveness - La clemenza di Tito - with contributions from Glyndebourne’s Music Director Robin Ticciati, Glyndebourne Dramaturg Cori Ellison, Mozart scholar Julian Rushton and Classicist William Fitzgerald.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2017
The music you’ve been listening to in this podcast is from the Warner Classics recording of La clemenza di Tito. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Orchestra of Zurich Opera House. Philip Langridge sings the role of Tito with Ann Murray as Sesto and Lucia Popp as Vite...2017-03-2321 min
Glyndebourne-OperaHamlet Bonus: Tenor Allan Clayton and actor Samuel West in conversationComposer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn are retelling Shakespeare’s Hamlet as an opera. In this bonus podcast episode, we’re eavesdropping on a specially recorded conversation between actor Samuel West, who has played Hamlet to great acclaim at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and British tenor Allan Clayton who is about to take up the role of the Danish Prince in this new opera version. Recorded February 2017.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2017
Musical extracts are from Brett Dean’s From Melodious Lay, commissioned and recorded by BBC Radio 3 and given its world prem...2017-02-2431 min
Glyndebourne-OperaHamlet podcastShakespeare’s Hamlet has been realised in thousands of versions. The story of the Danish Prince whose father is murdered by his uncle, who then marries Hamlet’s mother, is perhaps the most fascinating of all Shakespeare’s tragedies. In this podcast, composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn discuss the creation of their new operatic version of the tale. British tenor Allan Clayton looks forward to playing the title role and Shakespeare scholar Ann Thompson reveals how Hamlet passed into popular culture.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2017
Musical extracts are from Brett Dean...2017-02-2419 min
Glyndebourne-OperaHipermestra podcastIn this episode we explore Cavalli’s Hipermestra – an Italian baroque masterpiece that is given its UK premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. Renowned soprano Dame Janet Baker recalls a glorious summer spent singing Cavalli at Glyndebourne in 1970. And conductor William Christie, Cavalli historian Christine Jeanneret and Glyndebourne dramaturg Cori Ellison reveal just how important Cavalli is to the history of opera.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2017
Music courtesy of NPO Radio 4
Image: William Christie in rehearsals at Glyndebourne. Photographer: Mike Hoban2017-02-2420 min
Glyndebourne-OperaMadama Butterfly podcastNagasaki, Japan at the turn of the 20th century; the trees are laden with cherry blossom and a beautiful young Geisha’s fate is about to be determined by her marriage to a handsome American. In this podcast, explore Madama Butterfly, Puccini’s heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of a clash between East and West. With contributions from Glyndebourne Dramaturg, Cori Ellison, Fusako Innami from the Japanese studies department of the University of Durham, and Alexandra Wilson, Reader in Music at Oxford Brookes University.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Tour 2016.
Music from the EMI Classics recordin...2016-07-0120 min
Musikrevyn i P2CD-revyn i P2 10 april 2016I programet diskuterar panelen bl. a. Harnoncourts sista inspelning som blev Beethovens 4e och 5e symfoni och Ravels enaktare Spanska timmen med Leonard Slatkin på pulten. Som mellanakt: Johans val. I panelen Hanna Höglund, Magnus Lindman och Per Lindqvist som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symfonier nr 4 och 5 Concentus Musicus, Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt, dirigent Sony Classical 88875136452 LEOS JANÁCEK Ríkadla, (Barnramsor), m.m. Collegium Vocale, Gent, Het Collectief Reinbert de Leeuw, dirigent Alpha Classics ALPHA 219 HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER Baroque Splendor La Capella Reial de Catalunya Hespèrion XXI, Le...2016-04-1000 min
Glyndebourne-OperaA Midsummer Night’s Dream podcastDarkness is never far beneath the enchanted surface in Benjamin Britten’s version of William Shakespeare’s comedy. In this podcast Julie Sanders Professor of English at Newcastle and Professor Mervyn Cooke of the University of Nottingham explain how Britten’s rendering of A Midsummer Night’s Dream manages to be both exceptionally faithful to its source, and one of his most imaginative works.
We also hear from Dame Felicity Lott and tenor James Bowman who performed in Sir Peter Hall’s iconic production of the opera when it debuted at Glyndebourne in 1981 and bass Matthew Rose who has performed the role o...2016-03-3020 min
Glyndebourne-OperaBéatrice et Bénédict podcastSparks fly in Hector Berlioz’s witty, offbeat opera Béatrice et Bénédict. Taking inspiration from one of the greatest comic works ever written – William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing – it’s a meditation on the complexities of love and partnership.
Actress Zoe Wanamaker, music critic David Cairns, conductor Robin Ticciati and Glyndebourne’s dramaturg Cori Ellison explore the characters and music of this concise gem from the master of epic composition.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Festival 2016.
Music from the LSO Live recording of Béatrice et Bénédict., conducted by Sir Colin2016-03-3019 min
Glyndebourne-OperaIl barbiere di Siviglia podcastRossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia - a comedy with a dark heart and some of the greatest operatic earworms ever written. Widely held to be Rossini’s comic masterpiece, it is an opera with real depth, explored here by Stephen Wadsworth, Director of Opera Studies at The Julliard School, Francesco Izzo, Professor of Music at Southampton University and the internationally renowned soprano Danielle de Niese.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Festival 2016.
Music from the EMI Classics recording of Il barbiere di Siviglia featuring Vittorio Gui conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra2016-03-3020 min
Saturday ReviewTaxi Tehran, The Dresser, Cumberland Gallery, Slade House, Moderate SopranoEven though he's banned from making films in his home country, Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film Taxi Tehran won this year's Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Was this a largely political or aesthetic award?
Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser became an award-winning film in 1983. A new version for BBC TV stars Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen
Hampton Court houses just a few paintings from The Royal Collection in The Cumberland Gallery. It's a small sample of the glorious riches The Queen holds in trust for the nation.
David Mitchell's new novel Slade House tells a spooky tale...2015-10-3141 min
Glyndebourne-OperaDie Entführung aus dem Serail podcastThe form may seem familiar – a feather-light romantic comedy – but Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail is shot through with an emotional and musical core of extraordinary seriousness from the 26 year old composer. And its portrayal of 18th century European attitudes to the meeting of East and West is remarkably insightful.
Listen as Matthew Head, Professor of Music at King’s College London, Matthew Dimmock, Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex, and Glyndebourne dramaturg Cori Ellison explain how Mozart both reflects and subverts the 18th century European view of ‘the Orient’.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Mozart letters rea...2015-03-2020 min
Glyndebourne-OperaCarmen podcastHot, exotic Andalucía. The setting for a doomed love affair where the romantic, but naïve soldier Don José is led astray by the bewitching Carmen. For Bizet, Spain was warm and colourful, but with a dark and dangerous side. Much like the opera’s femme fatale.
Mezzo soprano Stephanie d’Oustrac, musicologist Hugh Macdonald and Glyndebourne dramartug Cori Ellison discuss the enduring appeal of Carmen, a character who is at once both alluring and elusive.
Presenter: Katie Derham.
Produced by Anishka Sharma for Whistledown Productions for Festival 2015.2015-03-2020 min
Glyndebourne-OperaSaul podcastAn ageing King is driven to murderous intent by the youthful heroisms of David, he of giant-slaying fame. The setting is ancient Israel but the story of a nation in transition hit home to an eighteenth century England still in political flux when Handel premiered Saul in 1739.
In this podcast, Suzanne Aspden, associate professor of music at the University of Oxford, Handel specialist Dr Ruth Smith, conductor Ivor Bolton and singers Iestyn Davies and Christopher Purves, discuss the music and themes of Handel’s first great oratorio in English.
Presenter: Katie Derham
Produced by Katherine Godfrey for Whistledown Productions for Fe...2015-03-2024 min
Carousel presents Shut Up and ListenCarousel Singers<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/1f/8e/6f/sual/3000x3000_10354113.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Fran Reynolds takes a look at Carousel Singers: a 30-strong choir of singers with learning disabilities. Carousel Singers was formed in 2011 as part of a Paralympic Project called Gold Run, a multi-media show they devised with support from Carousel, Glyndebourne and Pallant House Gallery.
Since Gold Run, Carousel Singers has continued to meet weekly during term time. The singers have worked with a number of musicians and choir leaders to develop their skills and create...2015-02-1624 min
Melodías de comediaMelodías de comedia - Gilbert & Sullivan - 26/10/14SULLIVAN: Los piratas de Penzance o El esclavo del deber (selec.) (10‟). G. Baker (bar.), J. Milligan (baj.), J. Cameron (bar.), R. Lewis (ten.), O. Brannigan (baj.), E. Morison (sop.), Coro del Festival de Glyndebourne, Orq. Pro Arte Londres. Dir.: M. Sargent. El Mikado o La ciudad de Titipu (selec.) (10‟). O. Brannigan (baj.), R. Lewis (ten.), G. Evans (bar.), I. Wallace (bar.), J. Cameron (bar.), E. Morison (sop.), M. Thomas (con.), J. Sinclair (sop.), M. Sinclair (con.), Coro del Festival de Glyndebourne, Orq. Pro Arte Londres. Dir.: M. Sargent. Los gondoleros o El rey de Barataria (selec.) (10‟). G. Evans (bar.), A. You...2014-10-261h 01
Cròniques d'estiuXavier Cester ens comenta l'òpera 'La Finta Giardiniera' que ha vist a Glyndebourne - 01/08/14Xavier Cester ens comenta l'òpera 'La Finta Giardiniera' que ha vist a Glyndebourne - 01/08/142014-08-0104 min
Glyndebourne-OperaLa traviata podcastVerdi’s La traviata - one of the greatest love stories ever told in opera and a work of such enduring power that it draws audiences and performers to it again and again. In this podcast Glyndebourne’s dramaturg, Cori Ellison, Dr Francesco Izzo from the University of Southampton, and author, Julie Kavanagh, explain how Verdi’s creation achieves such an exquisite melding of real-life tragedy and dramatic depth.
Presenter: Katie Derham, Produced by Katherine Godfrey and Anishka Sharma for Whistledown Productions for Festival 2014.2014-07-1820 min
Saturday LiveHelen FieldingRichard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding, seventh Python Carol Cleveland, and Stuart J Cole who was abandoned as a baby, sent to Jamaica to live with family he had never met, and who turned his life around during a spell in prison. We go to Glyndebourne to meet Caroline and Andrew Thomson and Sandra and Ian Pusey who found real-life love at the opera, radiator salesman Phil Neville tells us what it's like to be a victim of mistaken identity and has a go at football commentary, John McCarthy visits the Isle...2014-06-211h 25
Glyndebourne-OperaDer Rosenkavalier podcastIt’s just over a hundred years since Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal premiered the cheekily comedic Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden but in this podcast we discover that the opera is no mere rom-com. Dame Felicity Lott talks about the work’s emotional depth, Glyndebourne’s Music Director, Robin Ticciati, discusses how clever orchestration allows the singers to shine and Raymond Holden, the Sir John Barbirolli lecturer in Music at the Royal Academy of Music, explains that the opera was an unashamed celebration of both modernity and the past.
Producer: Katherine Godfrey, Whistledown Productions for Festival 2014
Presenter: Katie 2014-05-0920 min
Glyndebourne-OperaEugene Onegin podcastIn this podcast we journey to Russia in the 1820s, the setting for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s tale of love and loss, Eugene Onegin. The opera was drawn almost verbatim from the novel of the same title by Alexander Pushkin, one of the great works of Russian literature. Here Glyndebourne’s dramaturg Cori Ellison and Marina Frolova-Walker, a specialist in Russian Music at the University of Cambridge, discuss the rich material on offer to Tchaikovsky within the novel and consider how the composer found his own voice with which to tell the story. In addition, baritone Richard Stilwell, who has port...2014-04-3020 min
Glyndebourne-OperaDon Giovanni podcastConductor Robin Ticciati talks to James Whitbourn about Mozart's Don Giovanni, revived at Glyndebourne in 2011 and 2014. (recorded on location at Glyndebourne in summer 2011)2014-01-3114 min
Glyndebourne-OperaL'elisir d'amore podcastConductor Enrique Mazzola and Director Annabel Arden talk to James Whitbourn about their production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Glyndebourne Festival 2011. Recorded on location at Glyndebourne summer 2011.2013-12-0615 min
Glyndebourne-OperaRinaldo podcastDirector Robert Carsen and Dramaturg Ian Burton talk talk to James Whitbourn about Handel's Rinaldo first performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2011 and revived in 2014. Recorded on location at Glyndebourne in summer 2011.2013-12-0614 min
Glyndebourne-OperaDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg podcastConductor Vladimir Jurowski talks to James Whitbourn about Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which was first performed at Glyndebourne in summer 2011.
The DVD and Blu-ray of this production are available from the Glyndebourne shop: https://www.glyndebourneshop.com/wagner-die-meistersinger-von-nurnberg-2011/
Produced for Festival 20112013-12-0614 min
Glyndebourne-OperaRusalka podcastConductor Sir Andrew Davis and Director Melly Still talk to James Whitbourn about Dvořák's Rusalka.
Clips from the Glyndebourne CD label recording - available in the Glyndebourne Shop. http://glyndebourne.com/shop/cds-audio/glyndebourne-cd-label
Produced for Festival 20112013-12-0615 min
Glyndebourne-OperaTurn Of The Screw podcastConductor Jakub Hrůša and Director Jonathan Kent talk to James Whitbourn about The Turn of the Screw.
Clips from the Glyndebourne CD label recording - available in the Glyndebourne Shop. http://cms.glyndebourne.com/shop/cds-audio/glyndebourne-cd-label
Produced for Festival 20112013-12-0616 min
Glyndebourne-OperaThe Rape of Lucretia podcastFor Britten's centenary year, Fiona Shaw directs a new production of The Rape of Lucretia, which had its first performance at Glyndebourne in 1946. In this podcast, presenter Peggy Reynolds shares some of the recollections of the original production's star - the great mezzo Kathleen Ferrier - and the creative team who brought Britten's work to the stage. Glyndebourne's dramaturg Cori Ellison, considers the place of The Rape of Lucretia within Britten's canon of works, as the first of his 'chamber operas', and explores the source material for Ronald Duncan's libretto. The conductor, Nicholas Collon, reflects on the historical moment Lucretia...2013-11-1329 min
Glyndebourne-OperaLe nozze di Figaro podcastA guide to Glyndebourne's signature opera, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, with music from the live recording of our 1962 production. Presenter Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of the opera, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness. With contributions from Conductor Jane Glover, General Director of Glyndebourne David Pickard, Head of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, Julian Johnson and Dr John Leigh of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge – a specialist in 18th Century French thought and literature. [Producer: Mair Bosworth for Festival 2013]
(Musical extracts from the 1962 Glyndebourne recording of Le nozze di Figaro)2013-11-1321 min
Glyndebourne-OperaHippolyte et Aricie podcastPeggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie. We hear from Jeanice Brooks, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton, who identifies Rameau as an almost exact contemporary of Handel and Bach, who started his musical career as an organist and theorist and went on to stage lavish operas for Louis XV as 'Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi'. From writer and mythographer Marina Warner, who unfolds the myth which forms the basis of the opera's narrative, and explores the Racine play which inspired Pellegrin's...2013-11-1324 min
Glyndebourne-OperaAriadne auf Naxos podcastAriadne auf Naxos brings together the 'high art' of opera seria and the lighter, comic entertainment of the commedia dell'arte. Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to this ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. With contributions from the writer and broadcaster David Nice, who provides expert insight into Strauss's use of the orchestra to explore the theme of 'high' versus 'low' art. From theatre director Didi Hopkins of Commediaworks, who explains the history of the commedia dell'arte and introduces us to some of the art...2013-11-1323 min
Glyndebourne-OperaDon Pasquale podcastPeggy Reynolds explores Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale. With expert insights from the conductor, Sir Mark Elder, who argues that Don Pasquale is "a brilliant refilling of an old mould". From Francesco Izzo, Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton, who sets the opera into the wider historical context of the development of opera buffa, arguing that Don Pasquale was a new kind of comic opera, one which treats its characters with great empathy and warmth. From Glyndebourne's dramaturg, Cori Ellison, on the origins of the Basso Buffo character in Italian commedia dell'arte and Donizetti's use of the waltz...2013-11-1324 min
Glyndebourne-OperaBilly Budd podcastAs part of the celebrations of Britten's centenary year, Peggy Reynolds explores one of his best-loved works - Billy Budd. With contributions from Sir Thomas Allen, who introduces us to the character of Budd and sets the drama into historical context, against the backdrop of the French revolutionary wars. From Ellie Stedall, who tells us more about the source of the libretto - a short novella by the American writer Herman Melville - which explores ideas of free will, conscience and the fugitive nature of truth. And from the music writer Gavin Plumley, who celebrates the huge range of musical...2013-11-1326 min
Glyndebourne-OperaFalstaff podcastPeggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff. With contributions from the conductor Sir Mark Elder, who celebrates the delicacy, wit and humanity of Verdi’s score. From Glyndebourne’s dramaturg, Cori Ellison, who reflects on the quicksilver pace of this wonderfully funny work by a composer who we do not tend to associate with comedy. And from the baritone Laurent Naouri, who discusses the role of Falstaff, and the words and music written for the character by Verdi and his librettist, the prodigiously talented Arrigo Boito. [Producer: Mair Bosworth for Festival 2013]
Musical extracts from the 19...2013-11-1327 min
Glyndebourne-OperaRavel Double Bill podcastPeggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges. General Director of Glyndebourne David Pickard praises Ravel’s mastery of orchestration and the unique soundworlds he creates in these two fascinating works. Richard Langham Smith, Research Professor at the Royal College of Music, explores the operatic farce of L’heure Espagnole and considers psychoanalytic readings of L’enfant et les Sortileges. And pianist and musicologist Dr Emily Kilpatrick explores the texts upon which the operas were based and tells us of Ravel’s fascin...2013-10-1821 min
Gramophone Classical Music PodcastWilliam Christie talks about conducting Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie at GlyndebourneWilliam Christie talks to Antony Craig about conducting Glyndebourne's first French Baroque opera later this month2013-06-1711 min
Glyndebourne-OperaLa CenerentolaPresenter Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work. With contributions from writer and mythographer Marina Warner on the origins of the Cinderella myth, conductor Vladimir Jurowski on Rossini's use of coloratura, and Director Sir Peter Hall on La Cenerentola as post-enlightenment reimagining of the Cinderella story. (Producer: Mair Bosworth for Festival 2012)2012-06-2519 min
Insights Opera - In Conversation WithInsights - In Conversation with 'Meet the Maestros'Three opera house music directors, Antonio Pappano from the Royal Opera House, Vladimir Jurowski from Glyndebourne Festival and Edward Gardner from English National Opera came together for a unique interview with broadcaster John Tusa. With an unparalleled frankness they discussed their passions, fears and the future of opera in the UK.2011-08-2500 min
Midweek15/12/2010This week Libby Purves is joined by Professor Chris Rapley, Boyd Clack, Elisabeth Parry and Jamelia.Professor Chris Rapley MBE is the Director of the Science Museum in London. Before that he was Director of the British Antarctic Survey. The new high tech, interactive 'Atmosphere' gallery opened last week and aims to outline the basics of climate science and explain about human activity and our impact on weather patterns. The Science Museum will be the first and only museum in the UK to display an Antarctic ice core, an object many scientists consider to be pivotal in...2010-12-1542 min
Lyric Opera of Chicago PodcastsBackstage at Lyric #94 -- Carmen: Yonghoon LeeThe young Korean tenor Yonghoon Lee has enjoyed a spectacular rise to international prominence. This season alone includes his debuts at Lyric Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, and La Scala. In a conversation with Lyric dramaturg Roger Pines, he discusses Don Jose in Carmen, which introduces him to Lyric audiences this season after he triumphed in the role at Glyndebourne, Berlin, Hamburg, and Amsterdam.2010-10-1300 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996Sir George ChristieThe castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Chairman of Glyndebourne, Sir George Christie. As Master of one of Europe's most distinguished opera houses, famous as a mainstay of the English social scene, as well as a centre of creativity and innovation, he has recently overseen its complete rebuilding. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the place in which he has spent his whole life and how he faces the prospect of retirement.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Idomeneo: Zeffiretti Lushinghieri...1994-10-1634 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991Andrew DavisAndrew Davis, who has been the Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1975, was born in England and studied music at King's College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he recalls how he first made his mark as a conductor, and talks about the many facets of his work which includes opera at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden and conducting many renowned orchestras.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Missa Solemnis In D - Gloria by Ludwig van Beethoven
...1986-09-0735 minDesert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991Jane GloverJane Glover, who is the Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players, first became interested in conducting when she was reading music at Oxford University. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, she recalls her work at Glyndebourne, where she began as a repetiteur for the Opera Company and ended up running the touring company, and she talks about the way her career is developing as a conductor.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Cosi fan Tutte Act 1 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Letters by Virginia Woolf
...1986-03-3035 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985Rosalind PlowrightRosalind Plowright, the soprano, began singing professionally with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera Company, but her career did not really take off until she won a competition in Sofia in 1979.In conversation with Roy Plomley, she describes her rise to international recognition, she talks about her role in Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers for the English National Opera and she chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book...1984-05-0534 minDesert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985Linda Esther GrayLinda Esther Gray, the Scots soprano, made her operatic debut as Mimi in La Boheme with Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1972, and she went on to win the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship and the John Christie Award. But her first big success was as Isolde with the Welsh National Opera in 1978. She also tackles the role of Brunhilde in Valkyrie with the English National Opera.In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her career and chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive...1983-10-2233 minDesert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985Sir John PritchardSir John Pritchard, now Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, has worked with many orchestras in many countries, but he remembers above all the many happy summers he spent with Glyndebourne Opera, where he started as a repetiteur and eventually became the Musical Director. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his long career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Don Giovanni Act 2 Scene 5 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Lucia novels...1983-07-1643 min