Praise for Götterdämmerung 2023, Longborough Festival Opera

  • “Primarily the remarkable achievement of conductor Anthony Negus, undoubted lord of this Ring. His authority and understanding permeate every bar”

    – The Guardian

  • “As always with Wagner at Longborough, the driving force is the veteran conductor Anthony Negus, whose energetic propulsion of Götterdämmerung’s vast score is masterful”

    – The Times

  • “The underpinning achievement of conductor Anthony Negus and his orchestra is simply amazing, strongly sustained, yet driving the rhythms forward with sharp-edged articulation and clarity”

    – The Telegraph

  • “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

  • “Anthony Negus sustained impressive dramatic tension and rhythmic crispness”

    – Opera magazine

  • “Anthony Negus more than ever on top of strongly cast Wagner”

    – Bachtrack

  • “It is Anthony Negus’s sterling control of the score and his players that commands the utmost admiration. His attention to detail, acute ear for balance and an unerring feeling for tempi are brilliantly judged time and again”

    – Opera Today

  • “Anthony Negus is in as sure command as ever, and it is the act of hearing such accomplished orchestral playing in the most intimate of settings that makes this experience feel particularly overwhelming”

    – MusicOMH

Praise for Siegfried 2022, Longborough Festival Opera

  • “Negus sustains the logic, draws wonderfully vivid textures from the orchestra”

    – The Telegraph

  • “Anthony Negus bringing out delicacies in the score”

    – The Guardian

  • “Anthony Negus conducts with a masterly control of pace and balance. And much of the orchestral playing is spinetingling”

    – The Times

  • “There was brilliance, too, both in Anthony Negus’s majestic account of the score with a Longborough Festival Orchestra of unreasonably high quality”

    – Opera magazine

  • “one of the finest Wagnerian conductors in Britain today”

    – Opera today

  • “Anthony Negus more than ever on top of strongly cast Wagner”

    – Arts Desk

  • “one of the most sought-after Wagner conductors”

    – Bachtrack

  • “Longborough’s reputation – and with it that of Negus – for honouring Wagner was once more underlined”

    – The Guardian

  • “Longborough’s trump card in its Wagnerian performances has always been the guidance of Anthony Negus as conductor”

    – The Telegraph

  • “the musical atmosphere created by music director Anthony Negus is palpable”

    – The Stage

  • “Negus is an ideal Wagnerian interpreter. His is a steady hand, certainly never too fast, and his flexible tempos and attention to phrasing create an overall impression that feels just right. He also has a keen ear for musical storytelling”

    – Musical America

  • “Anthony Negus, regarded as one of the finest Wagnerian conductors in Britain today”

    – Opera Today