A bold first Handel, but not yet a great one

As a first stab at a big Handel music-drama this production is impressive, and one hopes it is the beginning of a new ...

Orlando review – a confident romp through Handel’s flimsily plotted opera

Sinéad O’Neill’s production is persuasive and Beth Taylor’s performace as Orlando is extraordinary in this tale of unrequited love, madness and magic ...
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Orlando review – Longborough Festival Opera’s first Handel in a decade is a revelation

Beth Taylor's richly shaded title role and Sinéad O'Neill's inventive Whistler-inflected staging make this a Longborough ...
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Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Handel’s Orlando

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of ...
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Götterdämmerung review – Longborough Festival Opera’s Der Ring des Nibelungen reaches its conclusion

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 ...
The Stage

Backstage: Longborough – from cowshed to world-class opera house

“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 ...
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Martin Graham, former builder whose Longborough opera house brought Wagner to the Cotswolds

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 ...