Longborough Festival Opera
The Longborough Festival Opera is an opera festival in Great Britain. Since 1991, changing operas have been staged annually in June and July in the English village of Longborough in north Gloucestershire .
history
The festival was initiated by the couple Martin and Lizzie Graham. Initially, from 1991 onwards, under the name Banks Fee Opera, they held concerts in their own house with changing guest ensembles. After converting a former stable into an opera house with 500 seats and an orchestra pit based on the model of the Richard Wagner Festival Hall in Bayreuth , staged performances from Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle in an adaptation by Jonathan Dove were shown for the first time in 1998 under the name Longborough Festival Opera . After a complete opera of this cycle was shown for the first time with Das Rheingold in 2007 , the entire Ring cycle followed for the first time in 2013. Acting actors include u. a. Rachel Nicholls .
The current chairman of the festival is Martin Graham , the music director Anthony Negus and the artistic director Alan Privett .
reception
The magazine Opernwelt certifies that the festival has a “friendly, informal and art-crazy atmosphere” in the tradition of Glyndebourne . The first performance of the complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen in particular met with enthusiasm from both audiences and critics.
Web links
- Longborough Festival Opera , homepage of the festival
- Rupert Christiansen: This Tannhäuser is a treat for the ears - but it's a shame about the staging. In: The Telegraph. June 13, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017 .
- Rupert Christiansen: Tristan und Isolde, Longborough Festival Opera, review: 'a splendid achievement'. In: The Telegraph. June 17, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .
- David Pinedo: Longborough Festival Opera: A World Class Tristan and Isolde in a Barn Shed. In: Opera Today. July 10, 2017, accessed December 1, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicholas Wroe: Anthony Negus: with Siegfried at last. In: theguardian.com . July 15, 2011, accessed December 2, 2017 .
- ^ Rupert Christiansen: How to open an opera festival in your back garden. In: The Telegraph. June 12, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Georg Hall: Singers' War in the Cotswolds. In: Opernwelt , August 2016, p. 71.
- ↑ a b Richard Bratby: Crazy about Wagner. In: Opernwelt , August 2017, p. 62.
- ↑ Alan Rusbridger: Longborough festival: how the Cotswolds wurde a mecca for Wagnerians. In: theguardian.com. June 6, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .