Anthony Negus, Conductor
Over many years as Music Director at Longborough Festival Opera in the UK, Anthony Negus has established himself as a highly perceptive and sensitive conductor of Wagner, exemplified by the highly acclaimed Ring cycles in 2013, Tannhäuser (2016), Tristan und Isolde (2017), Der fliegende Holländer (2018), also The Magic Flute, and Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2017 The London Wagner Society presented him with the Reginald Goodall Award for his devotion to the works of Richard Wagner.
Recent and upcoming projects
For Melbourne Opera: Siegfried September 2022, Ring cycle March – April 2023.
For Longborough Festival Opera, Götterdämmerung June 2023, Ring cycle June 2024
“The underpinning achievement of conductor Anthony Negus and his orchestra is simply amazing”
– The Telegraph (Götterdämmerung, Longborough Festival Opera 2023)
Siegfried (2022), filmed at Longborough Festival Opera
“As always with Wagner at Longborough, the driving force is the veteran conductor Anthony Negus, whose energetic propulsion of Götterdämmerung’s vast score is masterful”
– The Times (Götterdämmerung, Longborough Festival Opera 2023)
“Anthony Negus, simply one of the finest Wagner conductors around. Negus knows and articulates the emotional meaning of every note in this vast score”
– iNews (Götterdämmerung, Longborough Festival Opera 2023)
“Primarily the remarkable achievement of conductor Anthony Negus, undoubted lord of this Ring. His authority and understanding permeate every bar”
– The Guardian (Götterdämmerung, Longborough Festival Opera 2023)
“Anthony Negus sustained impressive dramatic tension and rhythmic crispness”
– Opera magazine (Götterdämmerung, Longborough Festival Opera 2023)