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Longborough Festival Opera announces 2016 season

Over the past decade and a half Longborough Festival Opera has gradually built an international reputation for its productions, led by its performances of Wagner. Longborough is now announcing its 2016 Summer Season featuring four operatic masterpieces with a line-up of artists which includes some familiar to Longborough but also many fresh faces. Wagner’s Tannhäuser Music Director Anthony Negus - a conductor with over fifty years’ experience of Wagner’s stage works - received rave reviews from critics for his conducting of Tristan und Isolde in 2015. This year, along with director Alan Privett, Negus turns his attention to a new production of Tannhäuser with John Treleaven and Neal Cooper in the title role (see cast dates below). Never one to shy away from the seemingly impossible, Longborough’s production of Tannhäuser will see the largest cast ever to have sung on our stage. FULL CAST Tannhäuser          John Treleaven (9, 14, 18 June), Neal Cooper (11