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	Glyndebourne Opera House, Glynde
		In Beddington a road turns off north from the A27 and heads to Glynde and the famous Glyndebourne Opera House, which was opened in 1934 by John Christie with a performance of Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro".
		Originally opened in May, 1934 on the estate of opera lover John Christie, the Glyndebourne Festival has gradually expanded to include operas other than Mozart's and to gradually expand its seating to 1,150 although tickets are still difficult to come by.
		Located near Lewes in Sussex, the festival, which runs form mid-May through mid-August, is known for the formal clothes donned by the guests and the lavish picnics that take place on the lawn during intermissions.
	www.planetware.com /england/glynde-glyndebourne-opera-house-eng-es-go.htm (236 words)

	Elite field finally gets its Wagner - smh.com.au
		Yet the odd thing about Glyndebourne's history is that the idea of staging Wagner was a mainspring of the impulse magnificently followed by John Christie, Glyndebourne's owner and the festival's co-founder, in building an opera theatre in the grounds of his home in the English countryside.
		As Glyndebourne's pre-World War II recordings of Mozart opera show - they are still deservedly in circulation on CD - she had a very pleasant lyric soprano voice and a shrewd sense of what the earlier Glyndebourne theatre could contain.
		According to his grandson Gus (Augustus), now the festival's executive chairman, the effect of the performance was to reduce one of the Glyndebourne housemaids to hysterics and she had to be carried out of the room.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/22/1053585641528.html (1075 words)

	Essential Medical Online - Lifestyle
		The audience also came to the rescue in 1951 with the formation of the Glyndebourne Festival Society, the objective of which was to secure annual financial support by way of a subscription scheme for each festival.
		In 1954 the Glyndebourne Arts Trust was formed to ensure the future of the Opera by the establishment of an endowment “sufficient to maintain and improve Glyndebourne’s amenities and to make good any annual deficit not covered by the Festival Society subscriptions.” By these means the continuity of Glyndebourne, its principles and practice, were ensured.
		The champagne and stuffed picnic baskets are as much a feature of the Glyndebourne Festival as the high-quality opera that has been performed for more than 70 years at this country house in the heart of Sussex’s countryside.
	www.em-online.co.uk /lifestyle.asp?ID=67 (1218 words)

	ABO Full Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra has 46 opera performances in 8 different UK theatres during their annual Autumn season.
		On May 1934 the curtain rose on the first festival at Glyndebourne and this year, 2004, Glyndebourne celebrated its 70th anniversary, now established as one of the worlds leading International opera house.
		Glyndebourne’s Education Department, formed in 1986, presents a year round programme designed to enrich and broaden the appreciation and understanding of opera for both adults and children.
	www.abo.org.uk /dir_mem_page.php?id=95 (225 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Glyndebourne: A 'hallmark for quality'
		The champagne and stuffed picnic baskets are as much a feature of the Glyndebourne Festival as the high-quality opera that has been performed for more than 60 years at the country house in the heart of Sussex's countryside.
		Glyndebourne was started on 28 May 1934 and was the result of the estate owner John Christie's obsession with the idea of performing "not the best we can do, but the best that can be done anywhere".
		In 1951 the Glyndebourne Festival Society was formed and helped to ensure that each year opera could be performed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1333641.stm (579 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Inclusive engagement
		Nor have there been high-profile hirings or firings (the team running Glyndebourne is young and pretty new: executive director Gus Christie, general director David Pickard and music director Vladimir Jurowski all took up their positions in the past three years).
		For the festival, which has no subsidy, this 2% slippage is crucial: around 72% (or about £9.5m) of its income comes from ticket sales.
		While the festival's standards are still very high, and it offers attractive working conditions for artists, Glyndebourne must compete in a crowded market.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/higgins/story/0,12830,956364,00.html (836 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Glyndebourne and the grim gawpers
		Glyndebourne is becoming a bit naff and tickets are always available.
		The festival is budgeted on selling an overall 95 per cent, and last summer's revival of Birtwistle's The Last Supper dragged the figures lower than they've been for some years.
		But the trouble is that Glyndebourne doesn't want to broadcast ticket availability too loudly, because the Catch-22 is that the harder it appears to get in, the more people long to come - demand must always exceed supply, and a ticket must remain a sort of prize.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/05/15/bmrupe15.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/05/15/ixartleft.html (733 words)

	Glyndebourne Festival Opera Tickets 2007
		Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an opera festival held at Glyndebourne, a country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
		Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt.
		Glyndebourne is most famous for its productions of Mozart operas; many of those productions are considered the finest ever done of those operas in the twentieth century, and the recordings from those stagings are still in print.
	www.worldwideticketing.com /festivals/glyndebourne-festival-opera.htm (128 words)

	Battle of the bands ... er, orchestras \| csmonitor.com
		Glyndebourne, with a tuxedo dress code and most tickets priced at $210, still calls up the image of a jewel-bedecked dowager.
		But in using both period and modern orchestras, the festival is pursuing one of the most innovative experiments in today's world of opera.
		His approach showed its strengths this summer in a vivid, free-flowing "Don Giovanni." Strings were crisp and clear, capturing the violence, the heartbeats, and the humor of the opera with period-instruments-style precision.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0726/p13s01-almp.htm (854 words)

	Verdi: Otello, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, July 2001 (H-T W) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Glyndebourne performs six operas, two new productions and four revivals, per season, which run from mid May to the end of August.
		All promising premieres at Glyndebourne have one problem in common: the long rehearsal period away from any distractions allows a director, and especially theatre people like Sir Peter Hall, to shape and reshape the slightest detail, an incredibly intense process.
		As Glyndebourne does not need critics anyway and as it is more an honour to be invited than necessity it would make more sense to call the press at a later stage, when everybody has settled down.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2001/July01/Otello.htm (854 words)

	Great Britain : Calendar of Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of England's major cultural events, this festival is centered at the 1,200-seat Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex.
		In venues across the Welsh capital, this festival is a celebration of pop, jazz, theater, street performances, funfairs, opera, comedies, and children's events.
		Scotland's best-known festival is an "arts bonanza," drawing major talent from around the world, with more than 1,000 shows presented and 1 million tickets sold.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=2498&catID=2498030003 (1775 words)

	LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA . GLYNDEBOURNE HOSPITALITY
		Glyndebourne Festival Opera offers one of the most unique and enchanting entertaining opportunities of the English Summer season.
		London Philharmonic Orchestra has been resident at Glyndebourne for over 40 years, and during that time it has played a major part in contributing to the success of this unique English institution.
		As a founder member of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the orchestra is able to offer two levels of exclusive hospitality package designed to allow you to get the most from your visit to Glyndebourne.
	www.lpo.org.uk /support_the_lpo/glyndebourne.html (257 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - First Term at Glyndebourne
		Some people see Glyndebourne as evening dress, champagne and picnic hampers - but in the world of opera it's seen as a nursery for the stars of the future.
		James Naughtie is the presenter of this programme which marks the 70th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
		The programme reflects the strengths of Glyndebourne’s highly individual ethos - long rehearsal periods and ensemble casting of up-and-coming singers - through the eyes, ears and voices of two directors making their Glydebourne debuts, Adrian Noble and Annabel Arden, as well as two members of the Chorus, Miranda Keys and James Gower.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/firstterm_glyndebourne.shtml?focuswin (183 words)

	Glyndebourne - MusEd - British Council - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Glyndebourne Education is a year-round operation with three full-time members of staff.
		Other major projects included the youth opera “Misper” which was performed at Glyndebourne in 1997 and revived in 1998.
		Following on from that, Glyndebourne set up primary and secondary Youth Groups which meet on Sundays during term-time.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-music-education-mused-glyndebourne.htm (140 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Praise for Langree / Mostly Mozart Festival 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In his first evening as the orchestra's (and festival's) music director, the French conductor Louis Langrée had an immediate effect, charging the ensemble with a new ebullience and attention to detail." (Aug. 1, 2003).
		At the end of the Festival, he concluded, "Langrée has taken a collection of versatile freelancers who had been churning out standard-issue Mozart for years and shaped them into a band with a specific style and sound." (Aug. 25, 2003).
		He is currently in his last season as Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/03langreerev.html (567 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Langree named head of Mostly Mozart Festival, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Langrée has conducted the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra three times since 1998, and in 2002 appeared in the festival leading the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
		He works regularly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he has conducted Mozart's Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, and Così fan tutte, all with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Beethoven's Fidelio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
		Now in its 36th year, the Mostly Mozart Festival was launched as an experiment in 1966 as Midsummer Serenades: A Mozart Festival.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/02langreemozart.html (951 words)

	Andrew Cooper: Glyndebourne
		The real reason for visiting Glyndebourne is not the Pimms, or the bucolic setting, or the chance to see and be seen - but the opera, which is of consistently high quality.
		After our first visit, William applied for membership of the Society, and joined it at the end of 1979 (nowadays, it is alleged that 40 years on the waiting-list is required if one wants to join, and the waiting-list has been closed).
		Membership of the Society is not cheap (nor are tickets - Glyndebourne does not receive the public subsidy which the other major British opera companies enjoy), but its benefits include priority booking; I pay half the subscription and have, in fact, been to quite a few more operas at Glyndebourne than William has.
	www.personal.leeds.ac.uk /~lib6arc/glynd.html (526 words)

	Glyndebourne Tickets - Cultural Tickets
		Whether you are looking for Glyndebourne tickets, sold out event tickets or corporate hospitality, TicketsToSee.Com has a wide selection of Glyndebourne opera tickets, concert tickets, sports tickets and London theatre tickets in the United Kingdom and throughout the world.
		In 1992 the old theatre hosted its last festival, and in 1994 construction of a brand new theatre housing a 1200-seat auditorium at Glyndebourne was completed at a cost of some £34 million, raised through public donations.
		Glyndebourne is the most popular of the opera houses during the summer season.
	www.ticketstosee.com /tickets/55/Glyndebourne_Tickets.html (645 words)

	Sir Andrew Davis
		For many seasons a regular visitor to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where he led successful cycles of Mozart, Strauss, Janacek and Tchaikovsky operas), he became their Musical Director in 1988.
		In addition to BBC SO and Glyndebourne commitments, future engagements include returns to leading orchestras in North America and Europe, including Boston, Chicago, Toronto Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras, London Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, (U.K. and France and Switzerland), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Santa Cecilia Rome.
		The 1996 Glyndebourne Opera Production of Lulu won the prize for Best Video in the 1997 Gramophone Awards and in September 1998 his recording of Birtwistle's 'Mask of Orpheus' with the BBC Symphony Orchestra won a Gramophone Award for Best Contemporary Recording.
	www.nyo.org.uk /davisA.htm (746 words)

	Glyndebourne Festival Opera by Verinha Ottoni © (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Festival became more and more interesting with magnificent artists coming to sing and music direction from Fritz Busch succeeded by Vittorio Gui, John Pritchard, Bernard Haitink, Andrew Davis and now Vladimir Jurowski.
		Sitting next to me (as my Malaysian friend was explaining about Glyndebourne) was “The Man in Red”, not dressed in his usual bright red but in a more subtle shade known as “Bordeaux red” (wine-coloured) who had actually, this year, been to Glyndeboune.
		Glyndebourne would expect me to be indignant as they would say ‘well, he’s not performing this year’, but I would have very serious misgivings if BAT were to sponsor one of my productions.” He also criticised this deal as this product is sold to, “less advantaged in the world.
	www.verinhaottoni.com /diary/cultural/proms/009.html (1756 words)

	LOVEFiLM \| Europe's No.1 online DVD rental service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the Glyndebourne Festival Opera a host of leading opera stars perform for HRH The Prince Of Wales.
		Performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, with the London Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink....
		Performed from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera; conducted by Bernard Haitink....
	www.lovefilm.com /actor.php?at_id=12779 (644 words)

	Glyndebourne Festivals on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		(glīn´debern, glīn´bôrn), operatic festivals given each summer since 1934 on the estate of John Christie at Glyndebourne, near Lewes, Sussex, England.
		Classical: Murder is a sin, however you play it; Theodora Glyndebourne Festival Opera LEWES Prom 33 and Prom 34 Royal Albert Hall LONDON.(Features)
		Big ears and the Glyndebourne Six Why are Adam Birtwistle's six composer portraits at this year's opera festival so unflattering?
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Glyndebo.asp (429 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: At Glyndebourne 3 [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ov - Glyndebourne Festival Orch and Chor/Fritz Busch
		- Glyndebourne Festival Orch and Chor/Fritz Busch/Roy Henderson
		Performed by Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus with Salvatore Baccaloni, John Brownlee, David Franklin, Luise Helletsgruber, Roy Henderson, Audrey Mildmay, Koloman von Pataky
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003UIT (1242 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		After many seasons as regular visitor to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, he became their Musical Director in 1988, a post he relinquished in 2000, at which point he became Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
		Upon his appointment at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in addition to relinquishing his Glyndebourne post, he also gave up his post with the BBC Symphony.
		He received a Royal Philharmonic Society/Charles Heidsieck Music Award in 1991 for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra through an outstanding Diamond Jubilee season, for his excellence in the operatic field, particularly as the Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and for his championing of British music, especially the music of Tippett.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=1076 (658 words)

	Handel, Giulio Cesare: Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 14th July 2005 (H-T W) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 14th July 2005 (H-T W) After Theodora in 1996 and Rodelinda in 1998, both with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under William Christie, followed this year the first ever Glyndebourne production of Giulio Cesare, also with the OAE and again conducted by the American baroque specialist William Christie.
		The OAE is firmly established here and as Glyndebourne’s current general director David Pickard had before been the general director of the OAE this will certainly not change.
		The casting was uneven, the production (David MacVicar) walked on a tightrope, the OAE sounded not always at its best and even William Christie seemed far too involved in his delicate reading of Handel and was not particularly interested in helping to bridge a certain emptiness in some scenes.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jul-Dec05/giulio1407.htm (716 words)

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