Glyndebourne

Barber Vanessa

Emma Bell (Vanessa), Virginie Verrez (Erika), Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol), Rosalind Plowright (The Old Baroness); Glyndebourne Chorus, LPO/Jakub Hruša (conductor), Keith Warner (director)

Opus Arte DVD: OA1289D; Blu-ray: OABD7258D

JURY AWARD

After its 1958was hailed as the great American opera audiences had been waiting for, a fanfare endorsed by a Pulitzer Prize soon after. European audiences felt differently, though, and Barber’s first opera then fell by the wayside on both sides of the Atlantic.