Laura Claycomb

The Rake's Progress

Robert Lepage

Andrew Kennedy, Laura Claycomb

Fall and redemption in an outstanding production of The Rake's progress by Robert Lepage.

Ariadne auf Naxos

Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey

Glyndebourne's wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which low comedy and high tragedy compete for our attention, "borne aloft by Strauss's divine music and Hofmannsthal's visionary poetry". At the centre of this production from Katharina Thoma is the noble, tragic figure of the abandoned Ariadne herself, in a haunting performance from Soile Isokoski, 'with brilliant support from the pit' (The Independent).