Our Insight events take you behind the scenes of our 2025 summer season, with talks and musical extracts giving you an insight into our upcoming productions.
2025 season: Insight Events
Thursday 3 October 2024
22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR
Insights on Pelléas et Mélisande
An Insight Evening of words and music, focusing on Debussy's masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande led by Artistic Director Polly Graham and Music Director Anthony Negus.
Soprano Kateryna Kasper, who makes her Longborough debut in 2025 with the role of Mélisande, joins baritone Robert Hayward to sing excerpts from the opera as well as related fin de siècle art songs by Debussy.
Tickets £20 - book online
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Thursday 7 November 2024
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH
Insights on Dido and Aeneas
An Insight Evening focusing on Dido and Aeneas with leading baroque violinist and Music Director of Barokksolistene Bjarte Eike, in the European Art Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Tickets £20 - book online
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Thursday 6 February 2025
22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR
Insights on Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult
An Insight Evening of words and music unpacking Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult, with production director and festival Artistic Director Polly Graham, and conductor Justin Brown (Die tote Stadt 2022) who commissioned and gave the world premiere of the opera.
This major new opera by the Israeli-born composer Avner Dorman, with a libretto by acclaimed German playwrights Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz, will receive its UK premiere at Longborough in 2025.
Soprano Susan Bullock CBE, who will play Cosima Wagner in the production, joins us with musical extracts.
Tickets £20 - book online