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English National Opera (ENO)

May 2024

  • Members of English National Opera protest at plans to move the organisation out of London

    The Guardian view on discord in the arts world: a distraction from the real crisis

    Editorial: Scrapping over the way money is distributed is no answer to the problems created by a decade of underfunding
  • Seth Numrich with his hand resting on the head of a giant puppet horse.

    Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

    An ex-ENO artistic head and the co-director who staged War Horse working on a contemporary opera about drug addiction crisis
  • Margaret Curphey as Micaële in Carmen, her first role with Sadler’s Wells Opera, with Donald Smith as Don José

    Margaret Curphey obituary

    Soprano at the heart of productions of the Ring cycle and other Wagner operas conducted by Reginald Goodall

April 2024

  • Antonio Pappano looks at the camera while sitting at a piano

    ‘Misguided wokeism’ puts people off opera, says top London conductor

    LSO’s Antonio Pappano says many in UK are ‘embarrassed’ by art form and suspicious of cultural achievements

March 2024

  • Peter Whelan conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Israel in Egypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

    The week in classical: Israel in Egypt; James McVinnie & Tristan Perich: Infinity Gradient; Bluebeard’s Castle – review

  • A rehearsal of Welsh National Opera’s production of Death in Venice

    The outlook is gloomy for opera in Wales

  • The Nash Ensemble, joined by the BBC Singers, performs Harrison Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem at Wigmore Hall, London, on Tuesday 26 March, 2024. © The Wigmore Hall Trust, 2024

    Wigmore Hall launches £10m fund in bid to be self-sustaining

  • A dress rehearsal for Welsh National Opera’s Death in Venice in Cardiff.

    The Guardian view on opera and circus: a populist pairing that scales the heights

  • Duke Bluebeard’s Castle review – erotic, unsettling and beautifully staged

  • Jenůfa review – Alden’s harrowing staging remains a formidable piece of theatre

  • The week in classical: The Magic Flute; Manon Lescaut review – the trials of love

February 2024

  • Ivo Clark, Lucy Barlow, Ethan James, ENO's The Magic Flute © Manuel Harlan

    The Magic Flute review – ENO’s revival is a peach of wit, wisdom and laughs

  • Roland Wood singing and looking very like Karl Marx in Marx in London!

    The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review

  • The London Coliseum, home of the English National Opera.

    English National Opera musicians call off strike action after agreement reached

  • A scene from The Barber Of Seville by Rossini @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera Production. Conducted by Roderick Cox. Directed by Jonathan Miller. (Opening 12-02-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 02-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Barber of Seville review – Miller’s 1987 staging still sparkles

  • The week in classical: Siegfried; The Handmaid’s Tale; Tosca – review

  • The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance

January 2024

  • Dress rehearsal of The Handmaid's Tale at London Coliseum on 6 April 2022

    English National Opera strike suspended as interim settlement agreed

    Equity union says 1 February action over job cuts has been called off and it expects a full resolution soon
  • A scene from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan at  London Coliseum on 5 October 2023

    ENO strike: staff say they are political ‘pawns’ and fear being forced out

    Musicians say many feel they have no choice but to act over cuts and may have to leave industry altogether
  • A scene from Blue by Jeanine Tesori @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera Production. Directed by Tinuke Craig. Conductor, Matthew Kofi Waldren. (Press Night 20-04-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 03-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    English National Opera employees: share your view on the strike

    We want to speak to musicians, performers and music staff in the English National Opera after they voted to strike
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