Page 138 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024
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13 March 2024
English Touring Opera Sets
Casting For BLOND ECKBERT
The opera will open the 75th Aldeburgh Festival on Friday 7
June.
By: Stephi Wild
Mar. 13, 2024
English Touring Opera has announced the casting for their new production
of Dame Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert. A co-production with Britten Pears
Arts, the opera will open the 75th Aldeburgh Festival on Friday 7 June as
part of the festival's focus on Dame Judith's music, before touring around
the country later in the year during ETO's Autumn 2024 season.
Baritone Simon Wallfisch sings the title role, returning to ETO for the first
time since 2015 where he sung Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande and Albert in
