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Having presented the various operas individually between 2019 and 2023, this year Longborough Festival Opera is staging the entire Der Ring des Nibelungen. The final opera Götterdämmerung, which is ...

Longborough Festival Opera has appointed conductor Christopher Ward as its new Music Director from the 2027 season. London-born Ward joins Longborough Festival Opera from Theater Aachen and ...

One of the delights of opera presented on the scale demanded by summer venues such as Longborough and Grange Park is that it focuses a director’s mind, and often leads to more inventive but less ...

What is it about Così fan tutte? In Cardiff, Benjamin Davis set it on Clacton pier circa 1960. At Longborough Jenny Miller starts it off, apparently, in a tacky waterfront bar, furnished out of Ikea, ...

With its slightly naff bucolic glitz, and (unplayed) drum kits and electric guitars, the opening look for Longborough’s take on Monteverdi’s revolutionary “favola in musica” of 1607 may irritate as ...

Unusually, I find myself writing this review at three days’ distance from the experience of being there, and it’s telling how few details of Carmen Jakobi‘s production remain in my memory even after ...

National Opera Studio has announced that Emily Gottlieb, Chief Executive since 2015, will be leaving her role in March 2024 to become Executive Director of Longborough Festival Opera in April. Under ...

Streaming platforms for Siegfried (Longborough Opera Festival 2022) haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.