Glyndebourne (1961)
Glyndebourne, near Lewes, East Sussex.
Various shots on the Sussex Downs; a blonde woman walks along and admires the view; some sheep sit in a field; some cows graze beneath a large tree; the woman walks off over the Downs. Several shots of the country house and grounds of Glyndebourne as commentator talks of how owner John Christie has realised his dream of making the place a Mecca for lovers of opera.
M/S of a sign reading 'Lewes Station'; we see people getting off a train dressed in evening dress, then walking out of the station and across the road to get on a special bus with signs reading 'Glyndebourne' and 'Excursion' on it. Commentator explains that John Christie insists people coming to the concerts wear evening dress because they will take trouble over it, as he and the concert organisers take a great deal of trouble.
The concertgoers arrive at the house and walk up the driveway; they have nibbles and drinks in the gardens where John Christie greets them; a couple tuck into their picnic (with champagne) on the grass. M/Ss of singer Duncan Robertson (a Scottish Tenor) looking over a music score in a secluded part of the gardens. Four men in evening dress play croquet on the lawn.
Commentator says When the opera begins, nature itself seems to listen in rapture; we see various shots of the exterior of the house, M/Ss of open windows and flowers and plants in the garden as we hear the overture of 'The Barber of Seville' on the soundtrack. M/S of an old man with 'Glyndebourne' on a tape round his hat and an armband on who sits listening to the music; M/S of the lily pond. N.B. No footage of a concert here.
Note: print used for telecine transfer is quite badly scratched; neg is cut and in bad condition.
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Southover Grange Gardens
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Feeling Good by Nina Simone ft Khaya Burke (Glyndebourne Opera House 17/11/2019)
The Lewes Youth Band's rendition of Nina Simone's Feeling Good featuring Khaya Burke on vocals from our performance at the Glyndebourne Opera House in aid of Homelink.
On Such a Night: Film Trailer
Originally released in 1956, On Such a Night is a charming and captivating piece of Glyndebourne history. The thirty-seven minute film was described by former Manager of the Glyndebourne Festival Moran Caplat as a 'little jewel'.
Directed by Anthony Asquith and starring David Knight, Marie Lohr and Josephine Griffin the quintessentially English film tells the tale of an American tourist who, upon arriving at Victoria Station in London with the intention to visit the picturesque South Downs, follows a group of well-dressed opera goers to Glyndebourne Opera house near Lewes in the search for the elusive 'New Countess'. There he watches his first Opera - Le nozze di Figaro - of which a number of original and rare excerpts of live performance are included.
As well as screen actors Knight, Lohr and Griffin, a number of Glyndebourne's most recognisable faces make cameo appearances. Among them are Glyndebourne founder John Christie, Oliver Messel and Vitorio Gui. Also included is a rare insight into the rehearsal process with Producer Carl Ebert.
Now re-released and digitally restored from the material preserved by the British Film Institute National Archive, On Such a Night is available on DVD ensuring that now, almost 55 years after it was made, On Such a Night can delight audiences all over again.
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Baystar retrofit installation at Glyndebourne SD
Glyndebourne is an English Country House, the site of an opera house that since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Initially, operas were presented within the house but there is now a free-standing opera house on the grounds. The house itself, located near Lewes in East Sussex England, is thought to be about six hundred years old.
Baystar Energy have installed a HERZ 199kW wood chip fed biomass boiler including feed system, 6000 litre buffer store, 500 litre expansion vessel and pump set to provide heating and hot water for Glyndebourne House and Opera House.
Lewes - 13 Jan 2012
A walk around Lewes, East Sussex - taking in the flea market, the High Street and the castle.
Don Giovanni - Là ci darem la mano
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni - I: Là ci darem la mano
Gerald Finley (Don Giovanni)
Anna Virovlansky (Zerlina)
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the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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Glyndebourne Chorus
conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
Recorded at Glyndebourne (Lewes, Great Britain), in 2010.
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Glyndebourne Turbine - 04/10/14 - DJI Phantom 2 - HD
A brief flight to photograph the Glyndebourne Wind Turbine near Lewes in Sussex. Filmed on GoPro Hero 3 Black
Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman (Glyndebourne Opera House 17/11/2019)
The Lewes Youth Band's rendition of Benny Goodman's Sing Sing Sing from our performance at the Glyndebourne Opera House in aid of Homelink.
[Wikipedia] Maria Korchinska
Maria Korchinska (16 February 1895 – 17 April 1979) was a distinguished 20th-century Russian harpist and one of the leading 20th-century harpists in Great Britain.
Korchinska entered the Moscow Conservatory to study both piano and harp in 1903 but on the advice of her father decided to concentrate on the harp from 1907. Her father believed that Russia was entering a time of great change and that given the relatively high number of pianists in Russia it would be easier for his daughter to find work as a harpist than as a pianist. In 1911 she won the first Gold Medal given to a harpist by the Moscow Conservatory.
In 1919 she became the Professor of Harp at the Conservatory as well as the Principal Harpist at the Bolshoi Orchestra. Korchinska was a founding member of the Persimfans, the famous Orchestra without a conductor. She was one of the many musicians who played at Vladimir Lenin's funeral.In 1922 Korchinska married Count Constantine Benckendorff (the son of Count Alexander Konstantinovich Benckendorff). Her daughter Nathalie was born in Moscow in September 1923, and in 1946, she married the British art historian Humphrey Brooke.The Russian Civil War had seen the confiscation of her husband's estate and conditions were extremely difficult. Korchinska had to carry her father's body to his funeral. In 1924 the family decided to leave Russia for Great Britain, taking with them two Lyon & Healy harps. One of these had been purchased in exchange for a bag of salt.
In Great Britain, Korchinska founded the UK Harp Association and had a successful career as a soloist and ensemble player. She was the first harpist to play at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, was a founding member of the Wigmore Ensemble and was the first British judge at the Israeli Harp competition. Her son Alexander was born in England in July 1926. Bax's Fantasy Sonata for Harp was dedicated to her and she gave the first performance in 1927. Her portrait was taken by Norman Parkinson in 1953 and is now part of the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
She performed in the premieres of several Benjamin Britten works including the Festival of Carols. During World War II she traveled ceaselessly throughout the country to play. In her 1969 BBC interview Studio Portrait she said:
I played .... underground in caves near Lewes, where a piano could not survive the damp. I played in cathedrals and clubs and YMCAs and several times in secret camps and aerodromes, without having the faintest idea of where I was. My life was spent in the black-out trying to find my way. I was lucky I never missed one engagement in spite of all the difficulties in transporting the harp. Several times I was given up, but arrived with my instrument at the last moment, very hot and scared because of the bombing, but able to play.
Korchinska also founded Harp Week in the Netherlands (now known as the World Harp Congress) alongside Phia Berghout. She practised three hours every day until her death in 1979. Favourite pieces included the A Ceremony of Carols by Britten and Danse Sacrée by Debussy. She taught Karen Vaughan, currently Head of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Crossways Hotel
Recommended AA 4 Star Accommodation in Polgate
Crossways Hotel, a beautiful hotel set in the heart of East Sussex where a warm welcome always awaits you from the resident proprietors Clive James and David Stott or one of their team of loyal helpers. Now in their 26th year at Crossways Hotel they continue to welcome old and new friends to their small Georgian country house Restaurant with Rooms which also offers a Self Catering Cottage.
Crossways Hotel is the place to stay for your visit to Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Making it your ideal Glyndebourne Hotel for those who are lucky enough to have tickets to the opera. Our special two-night Glyndebourne break offers guests the opportunity to enjoy a Gourmet four-course dinner in our AA 2 Rosette restaurant alternating with a night at the opera.
Crossways Hotel is situated in the heart of East Sussex and makes it the perfect centre for walking on the Southdown's, visiting the nearby village of Alfriston at the heart of the Cuckmere Valley or shopping in the East Sussex county town of Lewes, Eastbourne or Brighton.
No trip to Crossways hotel accommodation would be complete without dining in our locally and nationally renowned 2 rosette restaurant, where the best of local ingredients are treated with imagination to delight our guests.
Make Crossways Hotel your home away from home for whatever reason you are visiting this delightful area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Glorious East Sussex.
View Atop Lewes Castle
A 360 of the view atop Lewes Castle
Bed and Breakfast in Lewes
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Bed and Breakfast in Lewes, East Sussex ~ Beech B and B.
Beechwood B and B is situated in the village of Halland - just outside Uckfield. This Sussex style house sits in one acre of mature gardens. We are ideally located for a host of local venues, including East Sussex National Golf Club and Glyndebourne Opera House. Within a twenty mile radius you can get to Brighton, Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne.
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Glyndebourne wind turbine
Glyndebourne wind turbine, near Ringmer, East Sussex.
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Glyndebourne)
Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War.
Hofmannsthals' conceit -- that a hapless young composer has to accept the simultaneous performance of his new tragic opera with a burlesque from a commedia dell'arte troupe - is turned into a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids, airmen -- and of painful delusions and soul-searching, before final happiness.
Ariadne: Soile Isokoski
Composer: Kate Lindsey
Zerbinetta: Laura Claycomb
Bacchus: Sergey Skorokhodov
Music Master: Thomas Allen
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Director: Katharina Thoma
Recorded live at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes, March 2013
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Christopher Purves and Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Falstaff - Verdi
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Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff
Reverenza!
Christopher Purves (Falstaff)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski musical direction
Recorded in 2009 in Glyndebourne (Lewes, Great Britain) and available on medici.tv.
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Rossini - La Cenerentola Ouverture - Vladimir Jurowski - Glyndebourne
Rossini La Cenerentola Overture, full programme here
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola
Ouverture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski music director
Peter Hall stage director
Recorded at Glyndebourne, Lewes, Great Britain in 2005
© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd / Opus Arte UK Ltd
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Sena Jurinac & Elena Rizzieri - W.A. Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Sull' Aria - Reharsal & Live
W.A. Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Sull' Aria - Reharsal & Live
Sena Jurinac - Contessa Almaviva
Elena Rizzieri - Susanna
Vittorio Gui -Conductor
Carl Ebert - Director (He is directing Sena Jurinac and Elena Rizzieri on the reharsal scene)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gryndebourne 1955
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
History
Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt. The renovated theatre opened in 1994. Gus Christie, son of Sir George Christie and grandson of festival founder John Christie, became festival chairman in 2000.Since the company's inception, Glyndebourne Opera is particularly celebrated for its productions of Mozart Operas Recordings of Glyndebourne's past historic Mozart productions have been reissued. Other notable productions included their 1980s production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, directed by Trevor Nunn, and later expanded from the Glyndebourne stage and videotaped in 1993 for television, with Nunn again directing. Mozart operas have continued to be the mainstay of its repertory, but the company has expanded its repertoire with productions of Janáček and Handel operas.The primary resident orchestra for the Glyndebourne Festival is the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The festival's associate orchestra is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Since January 2001, the festival's music director is Vladimir Jurowski. David Pickard is the current general director of the festival. The festival operates without subsidy. Its first placement of advertisements was in 2003. The festival has planned to incorporate power by wind turbine, as part of its green initiatives.Many Glyndebourne attendees come from London, and Glyndebourne is regarded as part of the London/English summer season. Performances start in the afternoon, enabling Londoners to leave town after lunch, and finish in time for them to catch the last train back. A long interval allows opera-goers the opportunity for picnic dinners on the extensive lawns or in one of the restaurants in the grounds. Annually in London, the company presents an opera performance at The Proms.
Beechwood B and B, Halland, Nr Lewes, East Sussex.
Beechwood B and B is a Five Star Gold awarded Bed and breakfast / Guest house accredited by Visit England and the AA. This Sussex style house sits in one acre of mature gardens.
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Beechwood is situated 15 minutes north of the historic town of Lewes and Glyndebourne is just a 10 minute drive. We are perfectly situated if you would like to attend the world famous Opera or to explore the wealth of National Trust properties nearby. There are many excellent local walks and cycle routes for all abilities right from the doorstep. We are also close to the East Sussex National Golf Club.
Beechwood is situated close to the South Downs and a 30 minute drive will take you to Royal Tunbridge Wells or the beaches at Brighton or Eastbourne. The South Downs National Park is beautiful for walking or cycling and exploring the Cuckmere valley and Seven Sisters.
We are only 25 miles from Gatwick and close to main line railway stations into London from Lewes or Uckfield.
We will be very happy to advise on the wide choice of local pubs and restaurants, as well as local places of interest and the excellent choice of National Trust locations within the area. We are open all-year-round including Christmas and New Year