An eight-part series in which Sir
George Christie , present owner and chairman of Glyndebourne, traces the history of the festival in conversation with James Naughtie.
5: Expanding Horizons. In 1962, two events happened at Glyndebourne which were to change the course of its history. Monteverdi's L'lncoronazione di Poppea received its Glyndebourne premiere two days before the death of the festival's founder,
John Christie. Sir George Christie looks back at the sixties and the time when he took over as chairman of the company, steering it through an uneasy course to emerge at the end of the decade with a new Glyndeboume discovery - Cavalli. Featuring excerpts from Cavalli's Ormindo and La Calisto, Strauss's Capriccio and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and contributions from Hugues Cuenod, Elizabeth Soderstrom , Helen O'Neill and John Christie himself.