78RPM SET-MOZART-COSI FAN TUTTE-COMPLETE-GLYNDEBOURNE

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  East Sussex, England
Glyndebourne is an internationally renowned opera house in Southern England, famed for its annual Summer Festival as well as an accessible Touring company that visits six venues around the UK each Autumn. Established by John Christie and his wife Audrey Mildmay in 1934.

FABLED COMPLETE RECORDING OF MOZART'S OPERA COSI FAN TUTTE - RECORDED AT GLYNDEBOURNE IN 1934 WITH A STELLAR CAST HEADED BY THE LEGENDARY GERMAN BARITONE WILLI DOMGRAF-FASSBAENDER.

PLEASE NOTE:  THIS IN NOT ONE OF MY NEW OLD STOCK LISTINGS, BUT THE THREE VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, SOME DISCOLORATION OF AGE TO ALBUMS AND EACH RECORD HAS THE SIDE NUMBER WRITTEN IN LARGER IN GOLD INK.  RECORDS ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION.

Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne (pronounced /??la?ndb??n/) is a 700-year old country house and opera house near Lewes in East Sussex, England. Since 1934 it has been the venue of the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

The exact age of the house is unknown, but some surviving timber framing and pre-Elizabethan panelling makes an early sixteenth-century date the most likely. In 1618, it came into the possession of the Hay family, passing to James Hay Langham in 1824. the estate passed to a relative, Mr Langham Christie.  Langham Christie's son, William Langham Christie, made substantial alterations to the house in the 1870s. First, a brick extension hid the house's seventeenth-century facade, while ornate stonework and balustrading was added. Then, in 1876, the architect Ewan Christian was engaged to install bay windows and add decorative brickwork to give the house the Jacobethan appearance which can still be seen from the gardens today. Some of the exterior of the older parts of the house can be seen from the driveway next to the theatre.

John Christie obtained the use of the house in 1913 after the death of William Langham Christie, his grandfather. He came into full legal possession of the estate in 1920. Among other improvements, he added to the house an organ room, 80 feet (24 m) long, in the process almost doubling the length of the south facade of the house. This room contained one of the largest organs outside of a cathedral in the country. Built by the firm of Hill, Norman & Beard Ltd (bought by Christie in 1923), it was removed and broken up, although the case and console remain.

John Christie's fondness for music led him to hold regular amateur opera evenings in this room, and it was at one of these that he met his future wife, the Sussex-born Canadian soprano Audrey Mildmay. She was a professional singer and had been engaged to add a touch of professionalism to the proceedings. During their honeymoon attending the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, Christie and his wife developed the idea of bringing professional opera to Glyndebourne, although Christie's original concept was for it to be similar to the Bayreuth Festival. As their ideas evolved, the concept changed to focus on smaller-scale productions of operas by Mozart which would be well suited to the intimate scale of the planned theatreAs an annex to the organ room, the Christies built a fully-equipped and up-to-date theatre with a 300-seat auditorium and an orchestra pit capable of holding a symphony orchestra. Christie engaged conductor Fritz Busch as the first music director, Carl Ebert, the Intendant of Berlin's Städtische Oper was appointed artistic director, and Rudolf Bing became general manager until 1949. All three men were exiles from Nazi Germany.

After extensive rehearsals, the first six-week season opened on 28 May 1934 with a performance of Le nozze di Figaro followed by Così fan tutte. Boyd Neel had conducted the first music heard in the renovated Glyndebourne opera house in 1934, in private performances, at John Christie's invitation.

John Christie's original theatre was soon enlarged and improved many times after its initial construction. As early as 1936 its capacity was increased to 433; by 1952 it held nearly 600, and finally, in 1977, it held 850 people. In addition, a rehearsal hall was constructed.

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