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English Touring Opera

June 2024

  • Three adults confer in a cabin while a woman in gold cloak lurks outside

    Blond Eckbert review – Judith Weir’s bare-bones opera kicks off Aldeburgh festival

    Despite excellent performances from the singers and chamber ensemble, this stripped-back version of the folkloric opera failed to convey the horror of its story

March 2024

  • Part Rococo, part Dalí … The Rake's Progress at the Hackney Empire.

    The Rake’s Progress review – stylisation tips towards surrealism in ETO’s staging of Stravinsky parable

  • Norman Reinhardt, David Stout, and the cast of ENO’s The Magic Flute at the edge of a steeply raked stage that appears to be hanging over a black void

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

February 2024

  • Jenny Stafford as Manon and Edward Hawkins as Geronte, centre, in Manon Lescaut at Hackney Empire.

    Manon Lescaut review – Puccini’s desert tragedy gets a surreal rainbow revamp

    Jude Christian’s staging for English Touring Opera is colourful and imaginative but lacks critical chemistry and coherence

October 2023

  • A fine double act … Nazan Fikret and Lauren Young as the sisters in Cinderella at Hackney Empire.

    Cinderella review – entertaining if odd spin on Rossini’s opera

  • Zahid Siddiqui and Martha Jones in The Coronation of Poppea.

    The Coronation of Poppea review – ETO’s gender-fluid staging has fizz but also flaws

September 2023

  • Valene Kane as Lady Macbeth.

    The week in theatre: Macbeth; The Odyssey: Part 5 – The Underworld – review

    The Macbeths have time on their hands in the RSC’s overloaded production, while the National’s laudable countrywide Odyssey returns home to a carnival

March 2023

  • Beautiful singing … Paula Sides in English Touring Opera’s Lucrezia Borgia.

    Lucrezia Borgia review – dark and atmospheric Donizetti from English Touring Opera

    Eloise Lally straightforwardly tells this convoluted story of concealed identity ending in a mass poisoning

October 2022

  • Adam Smith as Cavaradossi, with Sinéad Campbell-Wallace in the title role of Tosca, at the Coliseum.

    The week in classical: Tosca; Ottone review – faith and fantasy

  • A compelling presence … l to r, Joseph Atkins and Jessica Walker in Scene Unseen.

    Scene Unseen review – cabaret song cycle seems both too short and too long

March 2022

  • Alys Mererid Roberts as the Cockerel and Robert Lewis as the Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel

    The week in classical: The Golden Cockerel; LSO/Christophers: The Creation; Bath Festival Orchestra

  • Striking … The Golden Cockerel.

    The Golden Cockerel review – a timely attack on autocracy and imperialism

October 2021

  • The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali with solo violinist Pekka Kuusisto perform in the Souhbank's RFH<br>The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali with soloist Pekka Kuusisto on violin perform Revueltas: Noche de encantamiento from La Noche de los Mayas, Bryce Dessner: Violin Concerto (UK premiere) and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring in he Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 3 Oct. 2021. Photos by Mark Allan

    The week in classical: Music of Today; Rites: Philharmonia/Rouvali; Amadigi; Venus and Adonis

    Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s first season with the Philharmonia gets off to a flying start alongside compatriot Pekka Kuusisto

February 2021

  • Andrew Greenwood in rehearsal at Alden Biesen Zomeropera, Belgium, in 2014

    Other lives
    Andrew Greenwood obituary

    Other lives: Musician and conductor for whom the composer’s intentions were paramount

October 2020

  • Austere spareness ... Bernadette Iglich and Richard Dowling in Britten’s Holy Sonnets of John Donne at Snape Maltings.

    Lyric Solitude review – imaginative and immaculate

    English Touring Opera’s new live season features three programmes of 20th-century pieces, each with a single singer and piano accompaniment

March 2020

  • Embargo on images until 10pm on 14-03-20<br>Susan Bickley (Marcellina), Andrew Shore (Dr Bartolo), Johnathan McCullough (Count Almaviva), Colin Judson (Don Curzio) and Bozidar Smiljanic (Figaro) in The Marriage Of Figaro by Mozart @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera production. (Opening 14-03-20) ©Tristram Kenton 03/20 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Classical musicians plead for support as cancelled concerts blight income

  • Clint Van Der Linde (Giulio Cesare) and Susannah Hurrell (Cleopatra) in Giulio Cesare by English Touring Opera @ Hackney Empire

    The week in classical: Giulio Cesare; Susanna – review

  • Thomas Elwin as Ferrando and Martha Jones as Dorabella in Così Fan Tutte by English Touring Opera, directed by Laura Attridge.

    Così fan tutte review – has wit and hilarity of 1930s screwball comedy

  • St John Passion at Hackney Empire. Photographer Andreas Grieger from martin.weston@englishtouringopera.org.uk

    St John Passion review – immersive and communal Bach staging is deeply touching

October 2019

  • Anna Patalong and Benedict Nelson in Miss Julie at the Barbican.

    The week in classical: The Silver Lake/The Seraglio; Orpheus in the Underworld; Miss Julie – review

    Humanity wins out in a compelling English Touring Opera season from which ENO’s misjudged Offenbach could learn much
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