Glyndebourne

No Ordinary Opera.

It all began with a love story in 1934, when founder John Christie met soprano Audrey Mildmay. Glyndebourne is now one of the finest and most celebrated opera houses in the world, delivering performances to some 150,000 people across a summer Festival and an autumn Tour.

Full Performances

The world premiere recording of Brett Dean's new opera based on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy.

Hamlet

Glyndebourne

Opera

Glyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable tale.

Ariadne auf Naxos

Glyndebourne

Opera

Britain's greatest classical singer of the 20th century, Dame Janet Baker, talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her life

Janet Baker In Her Own Words

Documentary

Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre takes grain, field, and flower as verdant muse in this celebration of the life cycle of the island’s essential crop.

Rice

Cloudgate Dance Theatre

Dance

The ‘sheer visual sophistication’ of Annabel Arden’s Barbiere serves ‘a triumphant celebration of Rossini’s musical genius

The Barber of Seville

Glyndebourne

Opera

Witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, a deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another

The Marriage of Figaro

Glyndebourne

Opera