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Longborough Festival Opera has appointed conductor Christopher Ward as its new Music Director from the 2027 season. London-born Ward joins Longborough Festival Opera from Theater Aachen and ...

“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 ...

Next year Longborough Festival Opera will be presenting the entire Der Ring des Nibelungen. The individual operas in this Ring Cycle, which is directed by Amy Lane, started to be introduced in 2019, ...

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 ...

There’s no such thing as "can’t" – and the proof is alive and well at Longborough Festival Opera. While lyric theatres around the world might quake at the prospect of staging Wagner’s Ring Cycle – the ...

Rigoletto has certainly been updated before, most notably in Jonathan Miller’s ENO production set among the New York mafia. Here, award-winning director Caroline Clegg does a smart riff on that idea, ...

With a strong cast including Bradley Daley, Paul Carey Jones’s Wotan and Julieth Lozano’s delightful Woodbird, any weaknesses in the staging were more than compensated for Need Wagner have made ...

Each year, at the end of July, lovers of the operas of Richard Wagner make the journey from around the world to the composer's own theatre in Franconia for the annual Bayreuth festival. This year's ...

Rachel Nicholls as Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung at Longborough Festival Opera. Credit: Photo: Donald Cooper Star rating is always a tricky business. The four asterisks at the top of this ...