Anthony Negus – Conductor

Die Walküre
Longborough Festival Opera, 2010

…but it was Negus’s achievement with his 65-piece orchestra that I found most fascinating. Taking advantage of Longborough’s Bayreuth-in-miniature acoustics, with its ideal balance between the singers and the musicians, Negus lead a faultlessly structured Walküre that flickered and shone with new colour and insight. He was able to create a chamber-like rapport between the stage and the orchestra, to reveal the delicacy of Wagner’s orchestration, as well as revealing the score’s big moments. Even more importantly, he paced the whole evening as well as I’ve ever heard a Wagner opera in performance.

Tom Service – The Guardian

…and above all Anthony Negus, the conductor, gave as ardent, penetrating and concentrated an account of the astonishing score as any I have heard in decades.

Michael Tanner – The Spectator

Longborough…in Anthony Negus, has a British Wagner conductor second to none.

Hugh Canning – Sunday Times

Negus conducts a thrilling performance.

David Mellor – Mail on Sunday

…conductor Anthony Negus realises Wagner’s score with great fluency and insight.

Rian Evans – Guardian

What lit up the performance wa Anthony Negus’firmly paced and assured conducting. Negus drove the thing on with an unfailingly vivid sense of drama and kept the orchestra focused on the bigger picture.

Rupert Christiansen – Daily Telegraph

…Ditto the pick-up orchestra, which performs with fierce passion under Anthony Negus’s superbly paced direction.

Richard Morrison –The Times