Garsington Opera 2024 – 29 May to 31 July
PLATÉE | LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
UN GIORNO DI REGNO | A TRIP TO THE MOON
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Garsington Opera is delighted to announce full details of the five operas in the 2024 Season. Opening the Festival, The English Concert under Baroque specialist Paul Agnew will perform the astounding music of Rameau for the first time in Garsington Opera’s history: Platée is directed by the award-winning Louisa Muller (The Turn of the Screw 2019/2022).
The Philharmonia Orchestra returns for our revival of John Cox’s iconic production of Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Tabita Berglund making her Garsington debut.
The Philharmonia also joins us with Artistic Director of Garsington Opera Douglas Boyd for Britten’s magical setting of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a cast including Iestyn Davies and Lucy Crowe, and a children’s chorus from members of our Youth Company. We welcome back Netia Jones (Amadigi 2021) as Director / Designer.
Un giorno di regno, the first of Verdi’s two comedic operas, finally appears on the Garsington stage having been part of the cancelled 2020 Season. This rarity features an impressive virtuosic vocal score sung by an international cast and large chorus of our renowned Young Artists. Conducting the Philharmonia will be Tobias Ringborg (Così fan tutte 2022). Acclaimed director Christopher Alden makes his Garsington debut.
A new community opera, A Trip to the Moon by Andrew Norman, features the Garsington Opera Youth and Adult Companies, as well as local school children, soloists Robert Murray and Jennifer France and the Philharmonia under Douglas Boyd.