Sussex-based opera company Glyndebourne has today announced the programme for its 2024 Festival, running from 16 May to 25 August.

2024 will mark the 90th anniversary of the company and opens with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by American director Diane Paulus in her Glyndebourne debut. The first performance run sees mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb in the role of Carmen and tenor Dmytro Popov as Don José. In August, those roles will be performed by Aigul Akhmetshina and Evan LeRoy Johnson.

Further productions include Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow in its first Glyndebourne staging. The new English-language version by Stephen Plaice and Marcia Bellamy will be directed by Cal McCrystal and conducted by John Wilson with a case including Danielle de Niese, Germán Olvera and Thomas Allen.

David McVicar's staging of Handel's Giulio Cesare returns, premiered in 2005. Laurence Cummings conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a cast including countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Louise Alder.

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde completes the line-up. The latter sees its first theatrical staging at Glyndebourne since 2009 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra will be conducted by Robin Ticciati.