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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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The Norwich project continues and develops many of the practice's preoccupations, notably in the use of a horseshoe-shaped form, so memorably employed at Glyndebourne Opera House (AR June 1994) and subsequently at Emmanuel College (AR February 1996).
NORFOLK HUB by The Architectural Review
Most obviously, it is a miniature Glyndebourne Opera House (AR June 1994): a free-standing building, oval in plan, basically symmetrical about a longitudinal axis, three storeys high and with a performance space at its heart.
Cambridge credo by Davies, Colin / The Architectural Review
The Glyndebourne opera house (our coverage of which starts opposite) is plainly an informal place, starting as it does from the basis of a delightful ritual of country-house picnic opera-going that began in the'30s.
Drama and architecture by Davey, Peter / The Architectural Review
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