Glyndebourne on Tour - Albert Herring / Macbeth / L'elisir d'amore
Glyndebourne is one of the world’s finest opera companies, renowned for its guaranteed first-class productions.
Albert Herring Tue 4 & Fri 7
Peter Hall’s marvellous staging of Britten’s Albert Herring is a Glyndebourne classic. The combination of wit, mockery and tenderness make this one of Britten's most admired works. Unable to find a virtuous girl for the office of May Queen, a small Suffolk town instead elects the only youth they can find of unquestionable chastity - Albert Herring. However his unimpeachable character is soon challenged when is 'coronation' lemonade is laced with something more potent...
2hrs 42mins (1 interval)sung in English
Macbeth Wed 5 & Sat 8
Macbeth is recognised as one of the most consistently inventive and boldest of Verdi’s operas. Richard Jones’s imaginative new production draws on a range of contemporary imagery to add a new dimension to Verdi’s first Shakespeare opera. The setting is a militarised, modern-day Scotland, where the witches emerge from caravans to boil their brew on an old gas stove. Lady Macbeth (a Hillary Clinton lookalike) sleepwalks to a washing machine to launder her white gloves, while assassins pack their victims’ torsos or decapitated heads into cardboard boxes.
2 hours 55 mins (1 interval) sung in Italian
L’elisir d’amore: Thu 6
The repertoire is completed with a new production of Donizetti’s sparkling comedy, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), created especially for the Tour by Annabel Arden. Donizetti’s orchestral score alternates between joyful tunes and soaring melodies which perfectly complements this irresistibly charming opera.
2 hours 30 mins (1 interval) sung in Italian All performed with English surtitles
Albert Herring Tue 4 & Fri 7
Peter Hall’s marvellous staging of Britten’s Albert Herring is a Glyndebourne classic. The combination of wit, mockery and tenderness make this one of Britten's most admired works. Unable to find a virtuous girl for the office of May Queen, a small Suffolk town instead elects the only youth they can find of unquestionable chastity - Albert Herring. However his unimpeachable character is soon challenged when is 'coronation' lemonade is laced with something more potent...
2hrs 42mins (1 interval)sung in English
- "If such a thing as a definitive production of the work exists, this is it"
- SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
- This show is a reminder of how stimulating a first-rate opera performance can be"
- EVENING STANDARD
Macbeth Wed 5 & Sat 8
Macbeth is recognised as one of the most consistently inventive and boldest of Verdi’s operas. Richard Jones’s imaginative new production draws on a range of contemporary imagery to add a new dimension to Verdi’s first Shakespeare opera. The setting is a militarised, modern-day Scotland, where the witches emerge from caravans to boil their brew on an old gas stove. Lady Macbeth (a Hillary Clinton lookalike) sleepwalks to a washing machine to launder her white gloves, while assassins pack their victims’ torsos or decapitated heads into cardboard boxes.
2 hours 55 mins (1 interval) sung in Italian
- "A white-hot triumph for Glyndebourne that vindicates opera's claim to rank as a supreme theatrical art form"
- DAILY TELEGRAPH
- "Vividly theatrical, intensely musical and bitingly funny"
- THE GUARDIAN
L’elisir d’amore: Thu 6
The repertoire is completed with a new production of Donizetti’s sparkling comedy, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), created especially for the Tour by Annabel Arden. Donizetti’s orchestral score alternates between joyful tunes and soaring melodies which perfectly complements this irresistibly charming opera.
2 hours 30 mins (1 interval) sung in Italian All performed with English surtitles
All performed with English surtitles
Sadler's Wells Theatre
4 - 8 Dec 2007
Ticket office:
0844 412 4300
How to find us
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN
Performance times
Eves at 7.15pm
Tickets
£13 - £70
Free Pre-Show Talks: Wed, Thu & Fri 6.15pm – 6.45pm
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