A man in a bow tie is unpacking items from a small trolley. To the table set up on the manicured, now yellowing lawn he adds a white tablecloth and silver cutlery. His equally well-attired picnickers ...

Sheep graze as opera fans enjoy a champagne picnic during a 90-minute interval for Bizet’s “Carmen,“ on the opening night of the Glyndebourne opera festival in Glynde, Britain, May 16, 2024.

A rich array of stimulating and thought-provoking imagery in this L’Orfeo production ultimately becomes suffocating ...

As Glyndebourne festival turns 90, its artistic director has been championing diversity – and pursuing young audiences. Has it worked? On the grand occasion of a 90th birthday, you may expect a focus ...

Is Billy Budd Benjamin Britten’s greatest opera? Personally, I would go farther and say it’s not only Britten’s greatest ...

Discarded lobster shells, oyster shells, and used wine bottle corks would typically be considered waste by most people. However, they are all being put to good use as building materials for a ...

George Christie, who inherited the mantle of caretaker of Glyndebourne, the stately English manor where he expanded beyond his family’s wildest ambitions the curious opera house his father had built, ...

An era came to an end here Friday night with fireworks that lit up the sky above the Sussex downs, the flares and rockets revealing for the last time at the Glyndebourne Festival the outline of its ...

GLYNDE, England, May 31 (Reuters) - Nestled in the English countryside 50 miles (80 km) south of London, the Glyndebourne opera festival's setting is a world away from the city-centre opera houses ...