One wedding. One marriage on the rocks. One scheme. One day.

When a womanising aristocrat tries to seduce his valet’s pretty young wife, his fiancée and servants conspire to teach him a lesson in fidelity he’ll never forget. Plots are hatched, promises made (and broken) and disguises donned, as ...

All’s fair in love and war. But what happens when love becomes the battlefield?

'All women are like that,' declares Don Alfonso, betting his friends Ferrando and Guglielmo that in just one day he can prove both their fiancées unfaithful. But when the young men accept, they enrol unwittingly in A...

Sometimes the Devil is a gentleman.

Don Giovanni lives a life of debauchery and pleasure, seducing and abandoning women wherever he goes, helped by his faithful servant Leporello. But when a seduction goes horribly wrong, he finally finds himself in a situation he can’t charm his way out of.

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Enchantment meets enlightenment politics in Mozart’s final operatic masterpiece.

True love conquers all in a colourful fairytale that pits the forces of darkness against truth, goodness and light. Barbe & Doucet direct Glyndebourne’s first new production of The Magic Flute in over a decade.

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Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to directing duo Barbe & Doucet about their production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. She also meets the creative minds who brought the set to life.