Vanessa Samual Barber Glyndebourne 2018

A rare opportunity to see Barbers Pulitzer Prizewinning work opera from the age of Hitchcock with an atmospheric score and tense psychological twists Abandoned by her lover Anatol Vanessa retreats from the world waiting and hoping with only her mother and her niece Erika for company But when 20 years later Anatols handsome young son arrives unexpectedly he shatters the calm of this shuttered household of women Past and present love collides and the aftershocks threaten to destroy them all