Anthony Negus, Conductor
Anthony Negus is one of the leading Wagnerian conductors of our day, the Music Director of Longborough Festival Opera (LFO) where in 2024 he conducted three enthusiastically received cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen and Die Walküre (all directed by Amy Lane). The Ring was the culmination of a five-year project. With LFO, he has established himself as one of the most perceptive and original conductors of the Wagner repertoire, giving acclaimed performances of the 2013 full Ring Cycle (directed by Alan Privett, the culmination of a 5-year project), Tannhäuser (also directed by Privett), Tristan und Isolde (directed by Carmen Jakobi) and Der fliegende Holländer; Die Zauberflöte, Ariadne auf Naxos. The 2017 revival of Tristan und Isolde met with especial critical and audience acclaim. The London Wagner Society awarded Anthony Negus the Goodall Award for ‘his devotion to the works of Richard Wagner’.
Forthcoming productions:
July 2025 Pelléas et Mélisande, Longborough Festival Opera, UK, director Jenny Ogilvie
2026 Tristan und Isolde, Longborough Festival Opera, UK, director Carmen Jakobi
2026 Parsifal, Melbourne Opera
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)