Anthony Negus, Conductor
Anthony Negus is one of the leading Wagnerian conductors of our day. 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 2024 and 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.
Forthcoming productions:
February 2025 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Melbourne Opera, director Suzanne Chaundy
July 2025 Pelléas et Mélisande, Longborough Festival Opera, UK, director Jenny Ogilvie
2026 Tristan und Isolde, Longborough Festival Opera, UK, director Carmen Jakobi
2027 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Longborough Festival Opera, UK, director Polly Graham
2028 Siegfried, Grange Park Opera, UK, director Charles Edwards
2029 Götterdämmerung, Grange Park Opera, UK, director Charles Edwards
“Anthony Negus, one of today's supreme Wagnerians”
– iNews (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Longborough Festival Opera 2024)
Die Walküre, filmed at Longborough Festival Opera’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (2024)
“Conductor Anthony Negus is clearly the soul of this project. His decades of experience with Wagner’s music shone through in every bar, his readings expansive and generous”
– Opera Now (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Longborough Festival Opera 2024)
“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)
“Much has been written about Anthony Negus and his special relationship with Wagner. Having heard him conduct a complete Ring for the first time I can say the plaudits are entirely justified”
– Wagner Journal (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Longborough Festival Opera 2024)