Glyndebourne 2022 Reviews

The LPO…opened with a light and ebullient sound, at once conveying the opera’s witty humour

The Arts Desk

The set-up needs voluptuous performances and it gets plenty here…the LPO produce detailed, languid phrasing

The Times

The immaculate London Philharmonic

The Times

The London Philharmonic deliver the score with such blazing eloquence and conviction

The Telegraph

Glyndebourne have really done it [the opera] proud

The Guardian

The playing of the London Philharmonic is as good as it gets

The Stage

This was a gripping performance, brilliantly played by the LPO

Planet Hugill

Robin Ticciati conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra makes sense of the maze of themes

Culture Whisper

The London Philharmonic Orchestra under Robin Ticciati never flagging through three acts of pounding energy and volume

Financial Times

This is all presented with enormous panache and commitment by...the London Philharmonic Orchestra...Ticciati and his musicians give a full-blooded account of the score that certainly kept the drama moving along

Opera Wire

The LPO and Glyndebourne Chorus are on top form

Evening Standard

Much fine playing comes from the London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Times

Jordan de Souza conducts the London Philharmonic, and it is as if all the colour that has been leached from the stage is brimming over the edge of the pit

The Guardian

Visser [the director] knows and exploits the power of a visual image to underscore the emotional effect of text and music

Evening Standard

The London Philharmonic Orchestra lent an incredible level of detail to Puccini's score, with vivid swathes of orchestral colour rising from the pit

The Arts Desk

Best of all, Jordan de Souza conducts an all-encompassing boheme with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, fleet and sparkling, and with the lyrical music shaped as freshly as if it was composed yesterday

Financial Times

The London Philharmonic relish every note

The Times

A predominantly grey stage see-saws at times, yet stillness and resignation are supplied in the playing of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Telegraph

There is plenty of passionate, full-blooded playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Guardian

Flamboyant splashes of colour, too, come from the playing of the London Philharmonic in both scores

The Stage

Conductor Robin Ticciati draws every possible colour from the London Philharmonic Orchestra to complement an unforgettable vision

The Arts Desk