Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book 1954

Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book 1954

Each copy is unused but depending on the age of the programme some may have some natural age and wear.

Festival repertoire:

Alceste. Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

Librettist: Bailli Leblanc du Roullet. Sung In: French. Notes: Pauline Grant assisted by Joyce Hartwell

Don Giovanni. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte. Sung In: Italian

Ariadne auf Naxos (2nd version). Composer: Richard Strauss

Librettist: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Sung In: German. Version: 2nd Notes: Performed in a double bill with Busoni's Arlecchino.

The Rake's Progress. Composer: Igor Stravinsky

Librettist: WH Auden & Chester Kallman. Sung In: English

 Il barbiere di Siviglia. Composer: Gioacchino Rossini

Librettist: Cesare Sterbini. Sung In: Italian

Arlecchino. Composer: Ferruccio Busoni

Librettist: Ferrucio Busoni. Sung In: German

Notes: First stage production in Britain. Performed in a double bill with Ariadne auf Naxos II.