Glyndebourne Opera, 2010 Season

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Glyndebourne Opera, 2010 Season

Full listings for the refined country-house opera season

by Ismene BrownMonday, 25 January 2010

Glyndebourne Opera's headline news this summer is its first-ever production of Britten's Billy Budd, to be directed by Donmar Warehouse director Michael Grandage in his own first venture into opera. A new Don Giovanni with Gerald Finley and a revival of the historic 1975 David Hockney Rake's Progress accompany listings of previous Festival productions of Macbeth, Cosi fan tutte and Hänsel und Gretel.

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