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in Season 2008-2009

L’incoronazione di Poppea
Wed Feb 4, 2009 - 2 PM
Run Time: 120 minutes

With 1 intermission
Glyndebourne Festival Series
Music: Claudio Monteverdi
1:30 PM
Ariane Comstock will introduce the opera

L’incoronazione di Poppea, Claudio Monteverdi’s (1567-1643) last opera, premiered at Venice’s Teatro di Giovanni e Paolo in 1642 and had its first professional production at Glyndebourne in 1962. Busenello’s plot depicts Nerone’s blind infatuation for the amoral and relentlessly ambitious Poppea. Their story is powerfully illustrated in one of the most beautiful love duets ever written. Internationally acclaimed director, Robert Carsen, directed this new production for the 2008 Festival. Baroque specialist, Emmanuelle Haïm, conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Australian-born and American-trained soprano sensation Danielle de Niese, following critical acclaim in her breakthrough role as Cleopatra in Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare in 2005, returns as Poppea, and Alice Coote makes her Glyndebourne debut as Nerone.

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Sun Feb 15, 2009 - 2 PM
Italy’s Grande
Opera Series
Music: Shostakovich
1:30 PM
Ariane Comstock will introduce the opera

This opera in four acts by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich tells the story of the unhappy Katerina who is driven to murder so she can pursue her romance with Sergei, one of her husband’s workers. The opera was acclaimed at the time of its creation in 1934, but condemned in the Soviet Union two years after the first performance, and banned for almost 30 years. In 1998, Florence ’s Maggio Musicale performed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and won the Abbiati Prize for best operatic show of the year, the most prestigious award given by the Italian Association of Music Critics. Ten years later, the production is being conducted by one of the world’s leading conductors, Maestro James Conlon.

Giulio Cesare
Sat Feb 21, 2009 - 7 PM
Run Time: 206 minutes
With 1 intermission
Glyndebourne Festival Series
Music: Georg Frederic Handel
6:30 PM
Giuseppe Albanese will
introduce the opera.

David McVicar’s unique staging of this Baroque opera series sets the story of Julius Caesar in the early 20th century during a period of British colonialism in Egypt. Highlights include a brilliant performance by Danielle de Niese, one of opera’s youngest stars, in the coveted role of Cleopatra. The opera is conducted by William Christie, one of the most celebrated conductors of Baroque and Early Music. This production won the 2006 South Bank Show Award for Opera. “There is certainly a Glyndebourne scent: of excellence and elegance, of singers and musicians enjoying at once the freedom gained by thorough rehearsal and the intimacy of a small, warm house." - Paul Griffiths, New York Times

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