Glyndebourne Festival 2012 inclusive hospitality:
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Performance ticket
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Champagne and Mezze on arrival in the Long Bar
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Official souvenir programme
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Three-course dinner in either the Middle and Over Wallop or Mildmay Restaurants, followed by coffee
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Half a bottle of wine from our selected wine list and mineral water with dinner
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Personal steward for your party from two hours prior to the performance (minimum of 4 guests)
*Some items from the pre-selected menu may incur supplement charges
Middle and Over Wallop*
The newly renovated Middle & Over Wallop restaurants offer a formal dining experience boasting a new light and airy extension designed by Hove-based architects.
Mildmay Restaurant*
Mildmay offers a contemporary menu, served in less formal surroundings. Weather permitting, the sliding doors are opened, making Mildmay a wonderful dining venue on warm summer evenings.
*Prior selection of your menu is required
The Cunning Little Vixen
Leoš Janácek
This is perhaps the only opera to be inspired by a newspaper cartoon strip. Every morning, Janácek would catch up with the latest exploits of the mischievous vixen Bystrouška. He became such a dedicated follower of her adventures that he responded with an outpouring of music, rich in both humour and humanity, which evokes the wooded rolling hills of the composer’s homeland of Moravia.
La Cenerentola
Gioachino Rossini
Rossini’s music has an irrepressible quality, bubbling up effortlessly, throughout this retelling of the story of Cinderella. The invention is unstoppable, from Cenerentola’s plaintive song about a king who loves a poor girl to the lavish coloratura of her final aria when goodness triumphs and all ends, for some at any rate, happily ever after.
La bohème
Giacomo Puccini
Writers and painters, desperate to make their mark, permanently in debt, living in squalid shared accommodation, falling tumultuously in and out of love. Puccini – and his long-suffering librettists Illica and Giacosa – created painfully true-to-life characters who make La bohème as relevant now as it was when it was first performed in 1896.
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro has particular resonance for Glyndebourne. In 1934, it was the first opera to be performed, and it was also the opening production of the newly built opera house in 1994. This production brings together two thrilling artistic talents. Conductor Robin Ticciati will be Glyndebourne’s new Music Director from 2014 and director Michael Grandage will return for the first time since making his opera debut at Glyndebourne with Billy Budd in 2010.
The Fairy Queen
Henry Purcell
Purcell’s intoxicating combination of words and music alternates elements of the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a variety of musical interludes. A magical brew has been concocted by director Jonathan Kent in inventive collaboration with designer Paul Brown.
Ravel Double Bill
Maurice Ravel
Ravel’s two one-act operas will reunite director Laurent Pelly and conductor Kazushi Ono, who made their Glyndebourne debuts in 2008 with Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. While L’enfant et les sortilèges shares with that opera a child’s-eye view of a sometimes threatening world, L’heure espagnole is a thoroughly adult confection.
* Price per person and excludes VAT