Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63

Last updated June 22, 2023

This is a list of the operas performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera during the music directorship (1952-1963) of Vittorio Gui. Operas performed by Glyndebourne forces at venues other than Glyndebourne are also included.

Year	Opera^[1]	Composer	Principal cast	Conductor	Director	Designer^[2]
1952	Idomeneo	Mozart		John Pritchard	Revival of 1951 production
1952	La Cenerentola	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1952	Così fan tutte	Mozart		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1948 production
1952	Macbeth	Verdi		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1938 production
1953	Alceste	Gluck		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Hugh Casson, Rosemary Vercoe
1953	La Cenerentola^[3]	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1952 production
1953	Ariadne auf Naxos ^[4]	Strauss		John Pritchard	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1953	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Mozart		Alfred Wallenstein	Revival of 1950 production
1953	Così fan tutte	Mozart		John Pritchard	Revival of 1948 production
1953	The Rake's Progress ^[5]	Stravinsky		Alfred Wallenstein	Carl Ebert	Osbert Lancaster
1953	Idomeneo^[5]	Mozart		John Pritchard	Revival of 1951 production
1954	The Barber of Seville	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1954	Alceste	Gluck		Vittorio Gui/Bryan Balkwill	Revival of 1953 production
1954	Arlecchino ^[6]	Busoni		John Pritchard	Peter Ebert	Peter Rice
1954	Ariadne auf Naxos^[7]	Strauss		John Pritchard	Revival of 1953 production
1954	Don Giovanni	Mozart		Georg Solti	Revival of 1951 production
1954	The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky		Paul Sacher/Bryan Balkwill	Revival of 1953 production
1954	Le comte Ory ^[5]	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Olivier Messel
1954	Ariadne auf Naxos^[5]	Strauss		John Pritchard	Revival of 1953 Glyndebourne production
1954	Così fan tutte^[5]	Mozart		Vittorio Gui/John Pritchard	Carl Ebert	Rolf Gérard, Rosemary Vercoe
1954	The Soldier's Tale ^[5]	Stravinsky		Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt	Günther Rennert	Alfred Mahlau
1955	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1955	Le comte Ory	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1954 production
1955	Don Giovanni	Mozart		John Pritchard	Revival of 1951 production
1955	The Barber of Seville^[8]	Rossini		Vittorio Gui/Bryan Balkwill	Revival of 1954 production
1955	The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky		Paul Sacher	Revival of 1953 production
1955	Falstaff ^[5]	Verdi		Carlo Maria Giulini	Carl Ebert	Osbert Lancaster
1955	La forza del destino ^[5]	Verdi		John Pritchard	Peter Ebert	Leslie Hurry
1956	Idomeneo	Mozart		John Pritchard	Revival of 1951 production
1956	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Mozart		Paul Sacher/Peter Gellhorn	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1956	The Magic Flute	Mozart		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1956	Così fan tutte	Mozart		Vittorio Gui/John Pritchard	Revival of 1954 production
1956	Don Giovanni^[9]	Mozart		John Pritchard/Bryan Balkwill	Revival of 1951 production
1956	The Marriage of Figaro^[10]	Mozart		Vittorio Gui/Maurits Sillem	Revival of 1955 production
1957	L'italiana in Algeri	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Peter Ebert	Osbert Lancaster
1957	Le comte Ory^[11]	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1954 production
1957	Der Schauspieldirektor ^[6]	Mozart		Bryan Balkwill	Anthony Besch	Peter Rice
1957	Ariadne auf Naxos^[12]	Strauss		John Pritchard	Revival of 1954 production
1957	Falstaff	Verdi		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1955 production
1957	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Mozart		Paul Sacher	Revival of 1956 production
1957	The Magic Flute	Mozart		Paul Sacher/Peter Gellhorn	Revival of 1956 production
1958	Falstaff^[11]	Verdi		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1955 production
1958	Alceste	Gluck		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1953 production
1958	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart		Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt	Revival of 1955 production
1958	The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky		Paul Sacher	Revival of 1953 production
1958	Le comte Ory	Rossini		John Pritchard	Revival of 1954 production
1958	Il segreto di Susanna ^[6]	Wolf-Ferrari		John Pritchard	Peter Ebert	Carl Toms
1958	Ariadne auf Naxos^[13]	Strauss		John Pritchard	Revival of 1954 production
1959	Der Rosenkavalier	Strauss		Leopold Ludwig	Carl Ebert	Oliver Messel
1959	Idomeneo	Mozart		John Pritchard/Peter Gellhorn	Revival of 1951 production
1959	Così fan tutte	Mozart		John Pritchard	Revival of 1954 production
1959	Fidelio	Beethoven		Vittorio Gui	Günther Rennert	Ita Maximowna
1959	La Cenerentola	Rossini		Vittorio Gui/Peter Gellhorn	Revival of 1952 production
1959	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart		Peter Maag	Revival of 1955 production
1960	I Puritani ^[14]	Bellini		Vittorio Gui/Bryan Balkwill	Franco Enriquez	Desmond Heeley
1960	Falstaff^[14]	Verdi		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1955 production
1960	Der Rosenkavalier	Strauss		Leopold Ludwig	Revival of 1959 production
1960	Don Giovanni	Mozart		John Pritchard/Peter Gellhorn	Günther Rennert	Ita Maximowna
1960	The Magic Flute	Mozart		Colin Davis	Revival of 1956 production
1960	La Cenerentola	Rossini		John Pritchard/Peter Gellhorn	Revival of 1952 production
1960	Il segreto di Susanna^[15]	Wolf-Ferrari		John Pritchard	Revival of 1958 production
1960	La voix humaine ^[16]	Poulenc	Denise Duval (Elle)	John Pritchard	Jean Cocteau	Jean Cocteau
1960	Arlecchino^[17]	Busoni		John Pritchard	Revival of 1954 production
1961	L'elisir d'amore	Donizetti		Carlo Felice Cillario	Franco Zeffirelli	Franco Zeffirelli
1961	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Mozart		Peter Gellhorn	Peter Ebert	Oliver Messel
1961	Fidelio	Beethoven		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1959 production
1961	Elegy for Young Lovers	Henze		Kerstin Meyer (Carolina) John Pritchard/Hans Werner Henze	Günther Rennert	Lila De Nobili
1961	Don Giovanni	Mozart		John Pritchard/Peter Gellhorn	Revival of 1960 production
1961	The Barber of Seville	Rossini		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1954 production
1962	Pelléas et Mélisande	Debussy		Vittorio Gui	Carl Ebert	Beni Montresor
1962	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart		Silvio Varviso/John Pritchard	Revival of 1955 production
1962	Così fan tutte	Mozart		John Pritchard	Carl Ebert	Rolf Gérard/Bernard Nevill
1962	L'incoronazione di Poppea	Monteverdi		John Pritchard	Günther Rennert	Hugh Casson/Conwy Evans
1962	Ariadne auf Naxos^[18]	Strauss		Silvio Varviso	Revival of 1950 production
1962	L'elisir d'amore	Donizetti		Carlo Felice Cillario	Revival of 1961 production
1963	Capriccio	Strauss		John Pritchard/Bryan Balkwill	Günther Rennert	Dennis Lennon/Anthony Powell
1963	Fidelio	Beethoven		Bryan Balkwill	Revival of 1959 production
1963	Pelléas et Mélisande	Debussy		Vittorio Gui	Revival of 1962 production
1963	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart		Silvio Varviso/Myer Fredman	Revival of 1955 production
1963	The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky		Paul Sacher	Revival of 1953 production
1963	L'incoronazione di Poppea	Monteverdi		John Pritchard	Revival of 1962 production
1963	The Magic Flute	Mozart		Vittorio Gui	Franco Enriquez	Emanuele Luzzati

Sources

Hughes, Spike (1963). Glyndebourne, a history of the Festival Opera. London: Methuen.
Norwich, John Julius (1985). Fifty Years of Glyndebourne. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-02310-1.

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↑ Titles in Bold are new productions. Opera titles are those used in Wikipedia and not necessarily those used by Glyndebourne.
↑ Where two designers are credited, the first-named designed the set and the second designed the costumes
↑ Also performed at the 1953 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast and conductor, in Berlin in 1954 with the same cast but with John Pritchard conducting, and at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool in 1956 with the same cast but with Vittorio Gui and Pritchard sharing the conducting.
↑ The Prologue, newly created by the same production team, was added to the Opera, which had previously been performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the 1950 Edinburgh International Festival.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival.
1 2 3 Curtain raiser preceding Ariadne auf Naxos.
↑ Second part of double-bill with Arlecchino.
↑ Also performed at the 1955 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast but with Alberto Erede conducting.
↑ Also performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, with the same cast but without Doreen Watts and with Juan Oncina replacing Richard Lewis as Don Ottavio. Pritchard and Bryan Balkwill shared the conducting.
↑ Also performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, with the same cast but without Elisabeth Grümmer and with Gui and Pritchard sharing the conducting.
1 2 Also performed in 1958 at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt in Paris with the same cast and conductor.
↑ Second part of double-bill with Der Schauspieldirektor.
↑ Second part of double-bill with Il segreto di Susanna
1 2 Also performed at the 1960 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast and conductor(s).
↑ First part of triple-bill with La voix humaine and Arlecchino.
↑ Second part of triple-bill with Il segreto di Susanna and Arlecchino.
↑ Third part of triple-bill with Il segreto di Susanna and La voix humaine.
↑ 1912 version, preceded by a performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, with Miles Malleson as M. Jourdain.

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[1] Titles in Bold are new productions. Opera titles are those used in Wikipedia and not necessarily those used by Glyndebourne.

[2] Where two designers are credited, the first-named designed the set and the second designed the costumes

[3] Also performed at the 1953 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast and conductor, in Berlin in 1954 with the same cast but with John Pritchard conducting, and at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool in 1956 with the same cast but with Vittorio Gui and Pritchard sharing the conducting.

[4] The Prologue, newly created by the same production team, was added to the Opera, which had previously been performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the 1950 Edinburgh International Festival.

[Edin-5] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival.

[Curtain-6] 1 2 3 Curtain raiser preceding Ariadne auf Naxos.

[7] Second part of double-bill with Arlecchino.

[8] Also performed at the 1955 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast but with Alberto Erede conducting.

[9] Also performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, with the same cast but without Doreen Watts and with Juan Oncina replacing Richard Lewis as Don Ottavio. Pritchard and Bryan Balkwill shared the conducting.

[10] Also performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, with the same cast but without Elisabeth Grümmer and with Gui and Pritchard sharing the conducting.

[Paris-11] 1 2 Also performed in 1958 at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt in Paris with the same cast and conductor.

[12] Second part of double-bill with Der Schauspieldirektor.

[13] Second part of double-bill with Il segreto di Susanna

[Edin2-14] 1 2 Also performed at the 1960 Edinburgh International Festival with the same cast and conductor(s).

[15] First part of triple-bill with La voix humaine and Arlecchino.

[16] Second part of triple-bill with Il segreto di Susanna and Arlecchino.

[17] Third part of triple-bill with Il segreto di Susanna and La voix humaine.

[18] 1912 version, preceded by a performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, with Miles Malleson as M. Jourdain.

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