Vanessa Samuel Barber

This work won Samuel Barber his first Pulitzer Prize for music the Glyndebourne Festival presents Vanessa a masterpiece premiered in 1958 based on a libretto by the composers close friend Bian Carlo Menotti Set to one of the most beautiful scores of the 20th Century Vanessa tells the haunting story of a woman who once abandoned by her lover Anatol retreats from the world to await his return living in isolation with her mother and niece Two decades later a man arrives who shatters the delicate balance of their home Olivier Awardwinning stage director Keith Warner is joined by a brilliant cast and the London Philharmonic under Kevin Lin for this musical and dramatic masterpiece of Hitchcockian psychological twists