Glyndebourne Festival Opera appointed Ben Glassberg as tour conductor. The contract runs three years from 2019, the first year he will be conducting Donizetti’s L‘Elisir d’Amore. Glassberg is 24 years old and born in the UK. After graduating from Cambridge University he studied at Royal Academy of Music. In 2017 he won the 55th Young Conductors Competition of Besançon in France. In that year, he served as a substitute for Robin Ticciati at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and has succeeded by conducting Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito.