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The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit
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The audience is enveloped in a shadowy limbo between art and reality, living and dead at the London Coliseum
The 1973 opera was always hugely ambitious, at the London Coliseum it is almost unrecognisable
Complicite’s revived production for English National Opera is a deft piece of theatre
English National Opera’s production is an old-fashioned, copper-bottomed success
A staging of Britten’s opera that gathers supernatural momentum
English National Opera brightens up its summer with this shrewd revival of the musical
The cast transcend their surroundings in Fiona Shaw’s production of Mozart’s opera
Fresh young singers enliven Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s opera
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Philip Glass’s opera returns to the Coliseum in Phelim McDermott’s hypnotically beautiful staging
Nico Muhly’s score skilfully evokes a heroine who is an ever-shifting amalgam of identities
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Opera Ventures’ donors can support either the organisation itself or one-off projects
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is outstanding in this opera about the life of the jazz pioneer
A musically strong but dramatically clichéd promenade production of Janáček’s opera
Berlioz’s work becomes a study of Nazism in Terry Gilliam’s hands
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s show is musically ravishing but emotionally underpowered
A surrealist, cross-dressing take on Handel’s opera at the Coliseum in London
Women are taking more of the top jobs, but this progress is being put at risk
Ryan Wigglesworth’s new work, premiered at the London Coliseum, has music of glancing beauties
Opera boss quizzes fellow passengers on the 38 bus
Richard Jones’s new production palls, but musical standards are high under Mark Wigglesworth
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