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PAST EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Il turco in Italia
Melissa will cover the role of Zaida.
Rossini’s laugh-out-loud comedy bubbles with energy, clever wit and Italian style.
When the poet Prosdocimo finds himself wrestling with writer’s block, he vows to take inspiration from the people around him. From a flirtatious young wife (and her lover) to a charismatic Turk and his former fiancée, the stage is set for a comic opera that sparkles with wit and sophisticated silliness.
A revival of the 2021 Festival production. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Glyndebourne Members Open Day
COME AND EXPLORE BEHIND THE SCENES AND ENJOY UNRIVALLED ACCESS TO OUR OPERA MAKERS IN GLYNDEBOURNE’S 90TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR.
Dates: Friday 22 & Saturday 23 November
Time: 9.30am – 5.00pm
Tickets: £45 per person (£38 for Under 40s)
Glyndebourne Festival 2025 Preview
In part one, join us in Glyndebourne’s Ebert Room as Chorus Director Aidan Oliver introduces us to our six Festival 2025 operas. Aidan’s expert insights are accompanied by performances from Glyndebourne singers Melissa Gregory and James Atkinson.
End the afternoon with a glass of Bolney Wine Estate local sparkling wine and a taster of seasonal dishes in Mildmay Restaurant with Executive Chef Steve Groves. Steve reveals what happens behind the scenes in Glyndebourne’s kitchens, from the curation of our Festival menus to the choreography of interval dining.
Location: Glyndebourne
Date: Thursday 14 November 2024
Time: 4.00pm – 6.30pm
Tickets: £45 per person. Under 40s tickets £38 per person.
Please note that filming and photography may take place during your visit.
Glyndebourne Festival 2025 Preview
JOIN US IN LONDON FOR A FASCINATING MEMBER EVENT EXPLORING THE OPERAS ON STAGE DURING FESTIVAL 2025.
Glyndebourne Chorus Director Aidan Oliver will expertly guide you through our Festival 2025 repertoire with excerpts performed by Glyndebourne singers Melissa Gregory and James Atkinson, accompanied by Matthew Fletcher.
The one hour talk will be held at 7.00pm, with complimentary drinks served from 6.30pm.
Please note that filming and photography may take place during your visit.
Location: Pigott Theatre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
Date: Tuesday 5 November 2024
Time: 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Tickets: £25 per person. Under 40s tickets £18 per person.
The Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award Final
2024 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Syrah Torii - mezzo soprano
Bella Marslen - soprano
Madison Horman - soprano
Lachlann Lawton - baritone
Eliza Boom - soprano
Eden Shifroni - soprano
Melissa Gregory - mezzo soprano
Tickets for this years Final are avaIlable from:
https://events.humanitix.com/copy-of-2023-joan-sutherland-and-richard-bonynge-bel-canto-award-and-sydney-international-song-prize-finals
Prom 52: Bizet’s Carmen from Glyndebourne
Melissa will sing the solo of the Marchande d'oranges.
Glyndebourne Festival Opera makes its traditional visit to the Proms with that most red-blooded of red-blooded operas, Carmen. Bizet’s musical tale of a Gypsy factory-worker who seduces a military corporal before discarding him for the more glamorous toreador has all the ingredients of a tightly sprung operatic drama. Anja Bihlmaier conducts Glyndebourne’s fine cast and chorus, along with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
There will be one interval
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Image: Anja Bihlmaier © Nikolaj Lund
The Merry Widow
Melissa will be performing the role of Praskowia
This lavish new staging of Lehár’s sparkling romantic comedy has all the opulence of classic Hollywood.
Glamorous, wealthy and recently widowed, can Hanna outwit the swarm of suitors in her search for true love? Danielle de Niese leads a stellar cast in this laugh-out-loud classic, which is sure to put a smile on your face as it spins around the glittering ballrooms of 1900s Paris.
Sung in English in a new version by Stephen Plaice and Marcia Bellamy with English supertitles.
WNO | Associate Artists Recital
Melissa will appear in recital with Malcom Martineau at Hoddinott Hall as a part of Welsh National Opera’s Associate Artists recital series.
WNO | Opera Favourites Concert
Melissa will appear as a soloist in an evening of favourite operatic arias and ensembles with Welsh National Opera.
WNO | Così fan tutte
Melissa will cover the role of Dorabella in Welsh National Opera’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
Up Late Concert series
Melissa performs a programme of Handel at the Handel Hendrix House, London.
WNO | Martin Ryan Christmas Concert
Melissa will perform as a soloist in the Martin Ryan Christmas Concert, presented by Welsh National Opera.
WNO | An Evening: Welsh National Opera
Melissa will perform as a soloist in Welsh National Opera’s WNO Autumn tour, singing favourite opera arias at Mosimann’s Club.
WNO | Play Opera Live!
Melissa will perform the role of Madame Venutia in Play Opera Live!, a space-themed family interactive spectacular presented by Welsh National Opera, including Habanera from Carmen.
Venue Cymru, Llandudno Sat 14 Oct 3.30pm BOOK TICKETS
The Bristol Hippodrome Sat 21 Oct 3.30pm BOOK TICKETS
Theatre Royal Plymouth Sat 4 Nov 3.30pm BOOK TICKETS
Birmingham Hippodrome Sat 11 Nov 3.30pm BOOK TICKETS
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton Sat 25 Nov 3.30pm BOOK TICKETS
Prom 31: Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites
Robin Ticciati conducts Francis Poulenc’s devastatingly powerful opera Dialogues of the Carmelites in a concert staging fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival.
Dialogues des Carmélites
One of the most devastatingly powerful operas in the repertoire, Dialogues des Carmélites is also one of the most beautiful. Steeped in Debussy, Monteverdi and Verdi, Poulenc’s lyrical score balances cinematic drama and scope, charged with the violence of revolution, with moments of startling simplicity and beauty. The composer may have asked rueful forgiveness for his nuns and their old-fashioned music, but this modern masterpiece needs no apology.
After a triumphant Saul, Barrie Kosky returns to direct Glyndebourne’s first ever production of Carmélites. Robin Ticciati conducts an outstanding ensemble cast.
Melissa performs as part of the Ensemble of Nuns.
L'elisir d'amore
Light, lyrical and bursting with energy, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) was the biggest success of Donizetti’s career – a comedy with the softest of hearts and the sweetest of melodies, including Nemorino’s much-loved aria ‘Una furtiva lagrima’. Updating the action to the 1940s, Annabel Arden’s production celebrates the opera’s original joyful, colourful spirit, painting an affectionate picture of an Italy on the brink of political change. Ben Gernon conducts.
Melissa performs as part of the chorus.
Lunchtime in the City-HSC 2022 Finalists Recital
Performers
Mezzo-soprano: Melissa Gregory
Mezzo-soprano: Anita Monserrat
Countertenor: Meili Li
Join the finalists of our 2022 International Handel Singing Competition for a special recital of Handel and much more. An opportunity to catch up with the stars of last year’s final and hear some of the finest young singing talent in Europe.
Samling Artist Programme Masterclass
Introducing eight new Samling Artists in a public masterclass, held in the stunning music room at Marchmont House, led by conductor Sir Mark Elder, bass Brindley Sherratt and Samling Artist pianist Jonathan Ware. Samling Artist Jo Ramadan supports the team as staff pianist.
The singers and pianists who have been invited to take part in this programme are:
Aleksandra Chernenko soprano
Jessica Cale soprano
Melissa Gregory mezzo-soprano
Emma Roberts mezzo-soprano
Edward Kim baritone
Jeremy Kleeman baritone
Emily Hoh piano
Ella O’Neill piano
Prioity booking for Samling Friends is open now and general sale will open on 1 February.
Glyndebourne Christmas Concert
The Christmas concert will showcase the talents of the Glyndebourne Chorus and Tour Orchestra. The concert starts with opera highlights – rousing tunes that will stay in your head long after the curtain comes down. This is followed by yuletide classics and carols for all.
Mozart Requiem
A special concert of instrumental and vocal works pairs music by French composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges with that of his better-known contemporary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Source: https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/mozarts-requiem/
La Bohème
In La bohème Puccini created an opera in which ordinary people are elevated to the level of the extraordinary, the tragic, the timeless – transformed by a score that has seduced generations of audiences. Conversational and familiar, atmospheric and emotionally amplified, La bohème paints the complexity of human relationships in all their many shades, framing them with wonderfully vivid, bustling scenes of Parisian life. Comedy and tragedy are woven tightly together in an irresistible flow of melody and drama.
Source: https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/la-boheme-tour-22/
Le nozze di Figaro
One wedding; one marriage on the rocks; one scheme; one day.
Director Michael Grandage updates the action to the dying days of Spain’s Franco regime in his 2012 production.
A revival of the Festival 2012 production. Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Source: https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/the-marriage-of-figaro-tour-22/
Poulenc Double Bill
Poulenc’s La Voix humaine is opera distilled down to its essence: a musical monologue of searing intensity.
Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias is a giddy romp of an opera that throws questions of politics, gender and society up into the air and watches them shatter into hundreds of glittering pieces.
A new production for Festival 2022. Sung in French with English supertitles.
Don Pasquale
Mariame Clément’s elegant production returns, conducted by Ben Glassberg.
A revival of the Festival 2011 production. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
La bohème
Floris Visser directs an exciting young cast in Glyndebourne’s first new La bohème for over 20 years. Jordan de Souza conducts.
A new production for Festival 2022. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
The Wreckers
Directed by Melly Still, this new production will be the first major, professional staging of our lifetime, and the first opportunity to hear the opera as Smyth intended, with its original French libretto. Glyndebourne’s music director Robin Ticciati conducts.
A new production for Festival 2022. Sung in French with English supertitles