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Glyndebourne

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Glyndebourne

Site of an opera house in East Sussex, England, established in 1934 by John Christie (1882-1962). Operas are staged at an annual summer festival and a touring company is also based there. It underwent extensive rebuilding work in the early 1990s.


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Having sharpened his teeth on the awe-inspiring Schlumberger phase one before becoming project architect on Glyndebourne, Snell is part of the second generation of Hopkins graduates to have gone it alone, following first generation pioneers Chris Wilkinson (with Jim Eyre), John Pringle and Ian Sharratt.
I went to a pre-Glyndebourne touring production at Oxford, when half of Higglety had to be recited from the book by an immaculate gentleman in a tuxedo; at Glyndebourne itself, Knussen was still working on the score the morning before the first performance.
Over the next two decades she sang, as Margaret Lensky, at Glyndebourne, La Scala and Sadler's Wells and broadcast frequently--a career which she modestly describes as 'middle of the road'.
 
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