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LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA 2008
Something for Everyone
Longborough Festival Opera is delighted to announce that following its great success this year, its production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold will return for a limited number of performances in 2008. Anthony Negus returns to conduct Alan Privett’s production and most of the 2007 company will be returning. This is the start of LFO’s Ring Cycle, which will continue in future years.
The season will open with a new production of Verdi’s La Traviata. Set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, it takes as its basis La Dame aux Caméllias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848.
In 2008 Longborough will stage its first Janácek opera – the composer’s delightful The Cunning Little Vixen. Written in 1924, when the composer was seventy, this is Janácek 's lightest opera. In it, the composer moved away from the more conversational style of previous and subsequent operas to a more folk-like style.
Details will be announced shortly for the education programme for 2008.
September 2008
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