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. 3: Gui and Rossini. The death of Glyndebourne's first conductor, Fritz Busch , in 1951 ushered in a new era which was dominated by the Italian conductor Vittorio Gui and his introduction of Rossini to
Glyndebourne. Sir George Christie looks at that period, with excerpts from Rossini's La Cenerentola and Le Comte Ory, Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.