Organization

Conductor

Ivor Bolton

Stage director

Barrie Kosky

Set designer

Katrin Lea Tag

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Joachim Klein

Choreographer

Otto Pichler

Singer

Bass

Christopher Purves

Saul

Soprano

Lucy Crowe

Merab

Sophie Bevan

Michal

Tenor

Paul Appleby

Jonathan

Countertenor

Iestyn Davies

David

Benjamin Hulett

High Priest

John Graham-Hall

Witch of Ender

Glyndebourne

Lewes

United Kingdom

Barrie Kosky’s sensational staging of Handel’s oratorio marries spectacle and psychology. Experience Kosky's extraordinary creativity ahead of his return next summer with our first-ever production of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.

Plus, get a taste of a Glyndebourne Encore subscription and enjoy an exclusive introduction from opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan. Alexandra is joined by Handel biographer Jonathan Keates and novelist Donna Leon to take a closer look at Saul and explore how the opera and this production break the mould.

The cast includes Christopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Sophie Bevan (Michal) and Paul Appleby (Jonathan) with conductor Ivor Bolton and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Saul was the opera of the month for December 2021.

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading