Do not book an eco-polluting flight to Europe or the US in search of top-class singers in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. If you ...

Laurent Pelly’s new production of Ariadne auf Naxos is a huge improvement on the staging it replaces. While there are a few ...

If you want a way into the mad, mad world of opera you could do no better than to start with the Prologue to Ariadne auf ...

Richard Strauss's opera within an opera, Ariadne aux Naxos, is a curious beast: a hybrid of spoken word and singing, a mix of ...

The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but there’s few insights in a work that should be moving as well as frothy and fun.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Uprising features Glyndebourne’s Youth Opera and Community Chorus - Richard Hubert Smith No one is too small to make a difference, ...

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, ...