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Robin Ticciati interview: ‘Glyndebourne is a festival where the established and the fresh exist together’

Michael Henderson talks to the country opera house’s fresh-faced new music director

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

Glyndebourne, the great Sussex opera house, celebrates its 80th anniversary this summer. Hurrah! There is a new music director, too, 31-year-old Robin Ticciati. Hurrah! And he opens the season next week with a new production of Der Rosenkavalier directed by Richard Jones. Hurrah! Summer has begun.

There are few finer plots of land to be on a summer evening in England than Glyndebourne, one of those rare places where the frame matches the picture.

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Glyndebourne Festival runs from 17 May to 24 August.

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