Glyndebourne_Festival_Opera:_history_and_repertoire,_1952–63

Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63

Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63

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This is a list of the operas performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera during the music directorship (1952-1963) of Vittorio Gui. Operas performed by Glyndebourne forces at venues other than Glyndebourne are also included.

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Sources

  • Hughes, Spike (1963). Glyndebourne, a history of the Festival Opera. London: Methuen.
  • Norwich, John Julius (1985). Fifty Years of Glyndebourne. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-02310-1.

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  1. [1]
    Titles in Bold are new productions. Opera titles are those used in Wikipedia and not necessarily those used by Glyndebourne.
  2. [2]
    Where two designers are credited, the first-named designed the set and the second designed the costumes
  3. [3]
    Also performed at the 1953 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast and conductor, in Berlin in 1954 with the same cast but with John Pritchard conducting, and at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool in 1956 with the same cast but with Vittorio Gui and Pritchard sharing the conducting.
  4. [4]
    The Prologue, newly created by the same production team, was added to the Opera, which had previously been performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the 1950 Edinburgh International Festival.
  5. [5]
    Performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival.
  6. [6]
    Curtain raiser preceding Ariadne auf Naxos.
  7. [7]
    Second part of double-bill with Arlecchino.
  8. [8]
    Also performed at the 1955 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast but with Alberto Erede conducting.
  9. [9]
    Also performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, with the same cast but without Doreen Watts and with Juan Oncina replacing Richard Lewis as Don Ottavio. Pritchard and Bryan Balkwill shared the conducting.
  10. [10]
    Also performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, with the same cast but without Elisabeth Grümmer and with Gui and Pritchard sharing the conducting.
  11. [11]
    Also performed in 1958 at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt in Paris with the same cast and conductor.
  12. [12]
    Second part of double-bill with Der Schauspieldirektor.
  13. [13]
    Second part of double-bill with Il segreto di Susanna
  14. [14]
    Also performed at the 1960 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast and conductor(s).
  15. [15]
    First part of triple-bill with La voix humaine and Arlecchino.
  16. [16]
    Second part of triple-bill with Il segreto di Susanna and Arlecchino.
  17. [17]
    Third part of triple-bill with Il segreto di Susanna and La voix humaine.
  18. [18]
    1912 version, preceded by a performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, with Miles Malleson as M. Jourdain.
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