Longborough

Longborough’s L’elisir d’amore excitingly transfers from a Basque to a Cotswold village

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2023 [2] – Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Longborough Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Alice Farnham (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 20.6.2022. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s L’elisir d’amore © Matthew Williams-Ellis

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Excellent singers, conductor and orchestra makes Götterdämmerung Longborough’s best Wagner yet

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera – Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Longborough Community Chorus, Festival Chorus and Opera Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh, 31.5.2023. (JPr)

Final scene: Lee Bisset (Brünnhilde) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

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Longborough Festival Opera’s investment in Emerging Artists pays dividends

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2022 [4] – Emerging Artist Double Bill, Waley-Cohen, Spell Book; Francesca Caccini, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina: Soloists, CHROMA Ensemble / Yshani Perinpanayagam (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 31.7.2022. (CP)

Spell Book © Matthew Williams-Ellis

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‘Comrades in adversity’ pull together for a Longborough Carmen with a difference

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2022 [3] – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Longborough Youth Chorus, Longborough Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Jeremy Silver (conductor).  Longborough, Gloucestershire, 9.7.2022. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s Carmen (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

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Rachel Nicholls’s remarkable versatility in Die tote Stadt delivers another Longborough success

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2022 [2] – Korngold, Die tote Stadt: Soloists, Longborough Youth Chorus (pre-recorded), Longborough Festival Orchestra / Justin Brown (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 25.6.2022. (CP)

Luci Briginshaw (Juliette), Stephanie Windsor-Lewis (Brigitta/Lucienne), Alexander Sprague (Victorin/Gaston), Lee David Bowen (Graf Albert) (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

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Longborough’s Siegfried benefits from generally clear storytelling and solid musical values

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2022 [1] – Wagner, Siegfried: Soloists, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 1.6.2022. (JPr)

Paul Carey Jones (Wanderer) and Mae Heydorn (Erda) (c) Matthew Williiams-Ellis

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