Obituary: Graham Vick believed glorious music belonged to everyone
The opera director died on July 17th, aged 67
ON A WARM summer evening the Long Interval at Glyndebourne is an idyll of Englishness. Evening light turns gold across the lake and the brooding shoulder of Firle Beacon; and across the lawns stroll the opera-goers, in black tie or bright designer dresses, bound for the picnic tables they have set up under the trees. There follows a gentle universal popping of corks out of bottles. Almost everyone is of a certain age and a certain income bracket, for whom this is a pleasure well-earned.
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “Puccini with lunch-trays”
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