Anthony Negus, Music Director of Longborough Festival Opera since 2000, has been named a Commander of the Order of the ...

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of ...

Beth Taylor's richly shaded title role and Sinéad O'Neill's inventive Whistler-inflected staging make this a Longborough evening to remember ...

“People ask: how do you build a theatre?” says Martin Graham, co-founder of Longborough Festival Opera. “And I just say: ‘You go into a field with a spade and you start digging’.” Martin and Lizzie ...

Having presented the various operas individually between 2019 and 2023, this year Longborough Festival Opera is staging the entire Der Ring des Nibelungen. The final opera Götterdämmerung, which is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Prince Ludwig of the Cotswolds’: Martin Graham in front of his Longborough auditorium - Matthew Williams-Ellis ...

Wagner’s opera of extremes is directed with striking simplicity, but John Treleaven’s tormented Tannhäuser grates on the ear Pilgrimage to Rome is a central part of Wagner’s early opera Tannhäuser, so ...

Alan Rusbridger meets Martin and Lizzie Graham, the inspiring couple who have put on the Ring cycle and now Tristan und Isolde in a converted barn, as they embark on their latest operatic adventure ...

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