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  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    The Handmaid’s Tale — one of the most powerful operas of the century

    Poul Ruders’ unsettling, powerful adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s book returns to the English National Opera

  • Friday, 1 May, 2020
    Josh Spero
    Honk for Mimi if you want to enjoy your opera at the drive-in

    The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit

  • Monday, 16 March, 2020
    ReviewTheatre
    ENO’s vacuum-packed Figaro grapples with today’s concerns

    Sex and sex crimes are the focus for the fine cast in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s production at the Coliseum

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    Glass’s Orphée becomes an all-embracing spectacle at ENO

    The audience is enveloped in a shadowy limbo between art and reality, living and dead at the London Coliseum

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    ENO reinvents Birtwistle’s Mask of Orpheus with clowns, latex and oodles of camp

    The 1973 opera was always hugely ambitious, at the London Coliseum it is almost unrecognisable

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    The Magic Flute, Coliseum, London — Mozart made fresh before our eyes

    Complicite’s revived production for English National Opera is a deft piece of theatre

  • Friday, 12 October, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Porgy and Bess, Coliseum, London — strongly sung and played

    English National Opera’s production is an old-fashioned, copper-bottomed success

  • Tuesday, 26 June, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Turn of the Screw, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London — caught up in a chilling tale

    A staging of Britten’s opera that gathers supernatural momentum

  • Thursday, 21 June, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    A slick and smart Kiss Me, Kate at the Coliseum, London

    English National Opera brightens up its summer with this shrewd revival of the musical

  • Thursday, 5 April, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Marriage of Figaro, Coliseum, London — a showcase for young singers

    The cast transcend their surroundings in Fiona Shaw’s production of Mozart’s opera

  • Monday, 5 March, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coliseum, London — bright-eyed and comic

    Fresh young singers enliven Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s opera

  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Iolanthe at the Coliseum, London — an all-round hit

    Not a Gilbert and Sullivan fan? ENO’s new production may just win you round

  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Satyagraha at the Coliseum, London — as mesmerising as ever

    Philip Glass’s opera returns to the Coliseum in Phelim McDermott’s hypnotically beautiful staging

  • Monday, 20 November, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Marnie — a psychological maze at English National Opera

    Nico Muhly’s score skilfully evokes a heroine who is an ever-shifting amalgam of identities

  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Opera goes to the movies: composer Nico Muhly on taking on ‘Marnie’ and Hitchcock

    Why has cinema suddenly become such a source of inspiration for makers of opera?

  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Philanthropy
    Funding opera: direct to the stage

    Opera Ventures’ donors can support either the organisation itself or one-off projects

  • Monday, 12 June, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Hackney Empire, London — emotional extremes

    Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is outstanding in this opera about the life of the jazz pioneer

  • Thursday, 1 June, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Vixen, The Vaults, London — ham-fisted attempt at gritty realism

    A musically strong but dramatically clichéd promenade production of Janáček’s opera

  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    La damnation de Faust, Berlin — history as allegory

    Berlioz’s work becomes a study of Nazism in Terry Gilliam’s hands

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2017
    The Monday Interview
    Cressida Pollock on saving the English National Opera

    The chief executive talks criticism, dumbing down and the reality of arts leadership

  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Carousel is a mixed ride at the Coliseum, London

    Rodgers and Hammerstein’s show is musically ravishing but emotionally underpowered

  • Friday, 17 March, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Partenope — English National Opera’s production is a delight

    A surrealist, cross-dressing take on Handel’s opera at the Coliseum in London

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Arts equality in the UK faces funding cuts squeeze

    Women are taking more of the top jobs, but this progress is being put at risk

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Winter’s Tale becomes an elusive, abstracted opera

    Ryan Wigglesworth’s new work, premiered at the London Coliseum, has music of glancing beauties

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2016
    The Commuter
    Cressida Pollock: ENO chief executive’s reading list

    Opera boss quizzes fellow passengers on the 38 bus

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