ENO's HMS PINAFORE Returns With Guest Star Mel Giedroyc
by Stephi Wild - Nov 10, 2025
English National Opera's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's nautical love triangle-themed opera HMS Pinafore returns to the London Coliseum this winter for its first revival, with a major guest star headlining the cast, Mel Giedroyc.
ENO Reveals New Music Director and 2025/26 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 14, 2025
English National Opera has announced the appointment of André de Ridder as its new Music Director and unveils details of its programme for the 2025/26 Season. Learn more here!
Review: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE, London Coliseum
by Alexander Cohen - Nov 18, 2024
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. That’s the hypothesis of Harry Fehr’s new iteration of The Elixir Of Love, a self-reflexive swipe on 1970s sitcoms drunk on the saccharine sentimentalism of second world war triumphalism. Pip pip. Tally ho.
Sage Gateshead to Host Big Bruckner Weekend in March 2024
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 2, 2023
Sage Gateshead has announced plans for its Big Bruckner Weekend, an epic immersion into the music of the Austrian composer on his 200th anniversary. Taking place between Friday 1st and Sunday 3rd March 2024, the venue plays host to several of Britain's best orchestras and choir for performances of his greatest symphonies, chamber work and religious choral works.
Israeli Opera Presents YEVGENI ONEGIN This Month
by Stephi Wild - Jan 3, 2022
The Israeli Opera is now presenting Yevgeni Onegin. Tchaikovsky and Pushkin return to the stage of the Israeli Opera in the most popular Russian opera about the young Tatyana whose first love is spitefully rejected by the arrogant Onegin.
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES and More to Be Presented at the Glyndebourne Festival 2020
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 10, 2020
The 86th year of the U.K.'s internationally renowned Glyndebourne Festival will offer six major opera productions from May 21 through August 30, including compelling new productions, rising stars and debuts, and the return of treasured Festival favorites, as well as an exceptional international roster of artists from more than 14 different countries from the United States, Australia and Russia to Finland and Croatia.
Jonas Kaufmann's Debut As Verdi's Otello Now Available On DVD And Blu-ray From Sony Classical
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 10, 2018
On a sweltering night in June 2017, this was unquestionably the hottest ticket in town. Opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recently acclaimed by The Daily Telegraph as “the world's greatest tenor,” make his eagerly anticipated role debut as Otello – Verdi's greatest and most demanding role for tenor voice.
BWW Review: ORESTE, Wilton's Music Hall, 8 November 2016
by Alexandra Coghlan - Nov 9, 2016
Glass panels, windows and boxes on stage should always be treated with mistrust. There can be no clearer indication of blood to come - a literal trigger warning, a physical spatter alert. Think of the gorgeous glass house of Benedict Andrews's 2011 The Return of Ulysses for ENO just waiting to be smeared and smudged, or of Gloucester restrained in his glass prison in the RSC's recent Lear just waiting for that moment. We don't have long to wait for the gore in Gerard Jones's Oreste. Barely ten seconds into the overture blood spurts and audience gasps. It's the first and final shock of a production that unfolds thereafter with tedious and maddening inevitability.