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Also in London: English National Opera’s Jenůfa is played as a gripping modern drama at the Coliseum
Also in London: Kahchun Wong conducts a programme of Shostakovich and Japanese music at the Barbican
Plus: Britten Sinfonia at Milton Court delivered a memorable new song cycle based on poems by an Afghan woman
Plus: English Touring Opera’s ‘The Coronation of Poppea’ at Hackney Empire offers divine slang and scorned fury
Plus: light relief in L’elisir d’amore at London’s Royal Opera House
The staging of Górecki’s work, perhaps the company’s last at the London Coliseum, adds new depths to the music
ENO’s production of Jeanine Tesori’s new opera tells of a father-son conflict which ends in tragedy
The American’s new work ‘Blue’ tackles racism and police violence, part of a trend of operas engaging with contemporary life
The supersaturated romanticism of Korngold’s opera comes to the London Coliseum
Plus: Tannhäuser at the Royal Opera House with a stand-in lead but no standout ideas
The row over funding for the English National Opera highlights the weaknesses of the English system
Plus: baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson at the Royal Festival Hall
Jake Heggie’s opera takes the beloved film and lightens some of its darker moments
With funding now completely cut, what is the future for the English National Opera?
The guillotine hung over the opening night of a fizzing new production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’
There is powerful singing in this upbeat, confident staging of Puccini
The first of five shows at the London Coliseum put dozens of refugee dancers in the spotlight
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo led this multimedia Prom, a mixture of music, dance and painting
Poul Ruders’ unsettling, powerful adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s book returns to the English National Opera
The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit
Sex and sex crimes are the focus for the fine cast in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s production at the Coliseum
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
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