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Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?

Glyndebourne Opera is back. Is it dangerous to play a wind instrument during this pandemic? A documentary film, My Rembrandt, about the world of art dealers and collectors.

From Wednesday, opera lovers will again be able to watch performances at Glyndebourne Opera in East Sussex, although this year the summer festival will look rather different to comply with Covid restrictions. A much-reduced audience will be able to enjoy opera in the open air setting of its sumptuous gardens starting with Offenbach鈥檚 French farce, Mesdames de la Halle, in a new translation entitled In the Market for Love. It's been re-imagined to take place in a society recovering from a pandemic, complete with an over-zealous police officer enforcing social distancing, and a huge tub of sanitiser centre stage.

Surgeon Declan Costello is leading the UK research assessing the dangers of singing and playing wind instruments in the spread of Covid-19. He discusses the trial and its impact on orchestras with Gavin Reid, Chief Exec of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chair of the Association of British Orchestras.

My Rembrandt is the name of a new film documentary by Dutch filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk. It explores the world of art dealers and collectors and the sometimes intimate, sometimes fraught relationship they have with the works they own and sell. Anna Somers Cocks, founder editor of The Art Newspaper, reviews.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Simon Richardson

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28 minutes

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Danielle de Niese

Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese in Cendrillon
Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith

Danielle currently stars in Offenbach's聽In the Market for Love at


Main image: Danielle de Niese in Il Barbiere de Siviglia at Glyndebourne
Photo credit: Bill Cooper

My Rembrandt

My Rembrandt
My Rembrandt
Photo courtesy of Dogwoof

My Rembrandt聽聽聽is currently streaming on several platforms and is on release in selected cinemas from Fri 14 Aug

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