festival 2015 21 May – 30 August MEMBERShip BROCRE hU donizetti POLIUTO bizet CARMEN mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL britten THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA handel SAUL ravel L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES welcome to 20 | FESTIVAL 2015 Festiv elcome to our 2015 festival, which includes repertoire spanning 300 years and an enticing mix of Glyndebourne firsts and Wfavourites. The 2015 programme includes three new productions – two of which are works never previously seen at Glyndebourne. The first ever UK staging of Donizetti’s Poliuto will reunite conductor Enrique Mazzola and director Mariame Clément following their much-admired Don Pasquale in 2013. Handel’s Saul will be the fifth stage work by the composer to be presented in the ‘new’ theatre and marks the Glyndebourne debut of one of today’s most sought-after international directors, the Australian-born Barrie Kosky, as well as the welcome return of conductor Ivor Bolton. Music director Robin Ticciati continues his exploration of Mozart at Glyndebourne with a new staging of Die Entführung aus dem Serail – a collaboration with one of this country’s finest directors, David McVicar. Fiona Shaw’s critically acclaimed production of The Rape of Lucretia is presented as part of the Festival for the first time – continuing a line of highly successful Britten productions at Glyndebourne, and bringing the work back to the place where it was first performed in 1946. Completing the season are three masterpieces from the French operatic tradition. Bizet’s Carmen remains one of the most captivating operas ever written while Ravel’s two perfect miniatures, L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les sortilèges, make up a brilliantly conceived double bill from director Laurent Pelly. In addition to our main stage productions, I hope you will also take the opportunity to enjoy the programme of extra events we offer as part of the Festival including our series of pre-performance talks and study events and the recitals given by our Jerwood Young Artists. I am particularly delighted that we are able to present the first performances of Macbeth, a new work by our recent Young Composer-in-Residence, Luke Styles, a showcase for some of the many talented young artists working at Glyndebourne. None of this ambitious programme would be possible without the loyalty of you, our Members, and the extraordinary generosity of our major donors. Thank you for your continuing support of Glyndebourne, and I hope you find much to enjoy in the 2015 Festival. — david pickard, General Director al 2015 GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 01 A FILM BY ANRI SALA IN COLLABORATION WITH LIRIA BÉGÉJA MEYERS © ANRI SALA, ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ, ARTANGEL, SCCA/PRO.BA 2011 1395 WITHOUT DAYS RED 02 | FESTIVAL 2015 Donizetti’s rarely-produced masterwork This Glyndebourne premiere of Poliuto also Poliuto reveals the epic side of this bel canto marks the opera’s UK premiere. Staged by French genius. Poliuto contrasts fierce personal conflict director Mariame Clément, returning after her with sweeping heroic scale, in the manner of winning production of Don Pasquale, this French grand opera – a choice which would wield production of Poliuto cuts to the heart of the great influence on Verdi. Poliuto’s grand Temple opera’s intimate personal drama: a classic love Scene in Act II clearly foreshadows the famous triangle, doomed by the conflicting forces of Triumphal Scene in Aida. politics and faith, and played out against a Based on Corneille’s French Neoclassical timeless, monumental canvas. Enrique Mazzola tragedy Polyeucte, Poliuto weaves the tale of returns to conduct the London Philharmonic Saint Polyeuctus (d. 259 AD), an early Christian Orchestra. martyr. The opera portrays Poliuto’s spiritual crisis after his conversion to Christianity incites A new production for Festival 2015 (UK premiere) persecution by Armenia’s Roman occupiers. His Sung in Italian with English supertitles wife Paolina, though in love with another man, Conductor .................................Enrique Mazzola is so moved by Poliuto’s courage that she finally Director .....................................Mariame Clément follows him to his tragic fate. Designer ....................................Julia Hansen Conceived as a vehicle for the great French Lighting Designer .....................Bernd Purkrabek tenor Adolphe Nourrit, the title role demands cast includes a tenor of lyricism and suppleness but also Poliuto ......................................Michael Fabiano power and stamina. Poliuto will be sung by Paolina .....................................Ana María Martínez the exciting American tenor Michael Fabiano, Severo .......................................Igor Golovatenko who debuted in La traviata in Festival 2014. Callistene ..................................Matthew Rose A FILM BY ANRI SALA IN COLLABORATION WITH LIRIA BÉGÉJA MEYERS As Paolina, a role often associated with Maria Felice .........................................Timothy Robinson Callas, the Puerto Rican soprano Ana María Nearco .......................................Emanuele D’Aguanno Martínez returns to Glyndebourne for the first time since her memorable debut in the title role London Philharmonic Orchestra © ANRI SALA, ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ, ARTANGEL, SCCA/PRO.BA 2011 1395 WITHOUT DAYS RED of Rusalka in 2009. The Glyndebourne Chorus Critical Edition by William Ashbrook and Roger Parker Property of Casa Ricordi, Milan (Universal Publishing Srl) By arrangement with G. Ricordi & Co (London) Ltd. POLIUTO gaetano donizetti Supported by Peter Moores Foundation Jon and Julia Aisbitt GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 03 ‘I have written a work that is all clarity and A revival of the 2002 Festival production vivacity, full of colour and melody,’ wrote Bizet Sung in French with English supertitles of Carmen, composed shortly before his sudden death at age 37. He would never know that his Conductor .................................Jakub Hrůša Director .....................................David McVicar tale of a free-spirited femme fatale would Revival Director ........................Marie Lambert become one of the world’s most widely Set Designer ..............................Michael Vale performed and beloved operas. Costume Designer .....................Sue Blane Set in Andalucía, Carmen reflects the 19th- Choreographer ...........................Andrew George century European fascination with the exotic, Revival Choreographer ..............Emily Piercy Lighting Designer .....................Paule Constable evoked through the use of authentic Spanish Fight Director ............................Nick Hall music – alongside popular-style opéra-comique tunes and soaring French lyricism. Based on the 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée, Carmen traces the joined fates of the fiery gypsy Carmen and Don José, a naïve army corporal. In love with Carmen, he abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from the military, but loses the capricious Carmen to the glamorous toreador Escamillo, with deadly results. The opera’s portrayal of working-class life, dissolution and lawlessness, as well as the shocking onstage murder of its heroine and the ground-breaking ARCHIVE GRAVETT /THE HOBAN HOBAN MIKE music Bizet wrote for it, scandalised early audiences but blazed new trails in opera. Of David McVicar’s production, last seen in Festival 2008, The Guardian wrote: ‘It is a brooding view of Carmen, a dissection of lost souls embedded in Michael Vale’s scrupulously realist sets… Sue Blane’s meticulously Spanish costumes provide a note of native colour… McVicar powers this Glyndebourne production with the energy of Rent, and with the seediness of Cabaret.’ Jakub Hrůša conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with Glyndebourne favourite Stéphanie d’Oustrac in the iconic title role, the charismatic Polish-Brazilian baritone Paulo Szot as Escamillo, acclaimed Czech tenor Pavel Cernoch as Don José, and the dazzling British soprano Lucy Crowe as Micaëla. georges bizet Supported by a Syndicate of Individuals led by Lord Davies of Abersoch cbe 04 | FESTIVAL 2015 cast includes Carmen .....................................Stéphanie d’Oustrac Don José ....................................Pavel Cernoch Escamillo ..................................Paulo Szot Micaëla .....................................Lucy Crowe Zuniga ......................................David Soar Frasquita ..................................Eliana Pretorian Mercédès ...................................Rihab Chaieb Le Dancaïre ...............................Christophe Gay Le Remendado ...........................Loïc Felix Moralès .....................................Andrey Zhilikhovsky London Philharmonic Orchestra The Glyndebourne Chorus CARMEN GLYNDEBOURNE.COM | 05 DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (ANONYMOUS) ODALISQUES IN A HAREM, CONSTANTINOPLE, LITHOGRAPH WITH CLAY PLATE, C. 1880. AKG-IMAGES 1880. C. PLATE, CLAY WITH LITHOGRAPH CONSTANTINOPLE, HAREM, A IN ODALISQUES (ANONYMOUS) 06 | FESTIVAL 2015 ‘Die Entführung has knocked everything else on Glyndebourne’s distinguished history with sideways,’ wrote Goethe of this landmark work Die Entführung which began with its seminal by the 26-year-old Mozart. A popular Singspiel in 1935 production. This new production is directed which tuneful Viennese comedy meets serious by David McVicar, creator of such triumphant Enlightenment philosophy, the piece is often Glyndebourne productions as Giulio Cesare and cited as his first fully mature stage work. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Like many other contemporary works, Die The luminous soprano Sally Matthews