ENO Announces Range Of Programs With Access All Arias

Engaging audiences and developing talent in support of the artistic programme, ENO runs a range of programmes, ticket pricing initiatives and schemes to engage audiences and develop future talent.

Key initiatives include:

Access All Arias

A free membership scheme for the under thirties which has grown to 7,500 members making it the largest scheme of its kind in Europe.

Tickets sold through this scheme have doubled in the past year. Online and broadcast content

The Digital Opera Guide - the first of its kind - which features free and exclusive videos, interviews and music streaming www.eno.org/operaguide

A world first in live multi-channel simulcasting with Sky Arts of ENO's new production of La bohème. The broadcasts featured live behind the scenes footage and the full production as viewed by the audience. For the first time opera audiences were able to make their own viewing choices.

Specially commissioned online films and podcasts which provide an insight into how new productions are created - most recently a series of short films around John Adams's Doctor Atomic and Katie Mitchell's After Dido. Affordable ticket pricing

ENO offers value for money with ticket prices. For every performance 500 tickets are available at £25 or under.

Four specific ticket schemes - Access All Arias, Enjoy Opera, student standbys and tickets for under 16s - accounted for 6.6% of total sales (16,000 tickets) in the 2007/8 Season, a figure that excludes tickets purchased by young people outside of these schemes. Three distinctive schemes to develop talent

ENO Opera Works and ENO Young Singers exist to train and develop pre-professional singers, while the recently launched ENO Evolve, led by Edward Gardner, develops the orchestral musicians of tomorrow. For further press information please contact: Rebecca Driver, Head of Press rdriver@eno.org / 020 7845 9261 / 07989 355446

Access All Arias (eno.org/accessallarias)Access All Arias is a free membership scheme for full time students and under 30's designed to allow ENO to have a more intense relationship with members. It gives members the opportunity to book discounted tickets for productions, attend opera events at ENO and receive unique online content.

ENO Baylis (eno.org/education) ENO Baylis is ENO's learning and participation department. Established in 1985, it is named after Lilian Baylis, whose vision of accessible opera led to the founding of ENO. Every year, around 8,000 people take part in ENO Baylis projects and for many this is their first experience of opera. A current family learning programme within Westminster will provide young people aged between 8 and 16, their parents and carers, opportunities to learn together around a large-scale performance of Orlando Gough's On the Rim of the World in May 2010. Through the ENO Baylis' Enjoy Opera scheme school groups have the opportunity to attend performances at ENO for the subsidised rate of £7 a ticket.

Online and broadcast content ENO has been leading the way in the creation of adventurous content and finding new ways to give our audience a choice in how they engage with our work - both through the internet and multi-channel broadcasting. Through these activities ENO gives people an insight into every aspect of its work. ENO Opera Works ENO Opera Works is a groundbreaking programme - the first of its kind in the UK - designed for talented pre-professional singers, who have not had prior opportunity to develop their singing. Built in modules to allow flexibility for the participants, it aims to prepare them for a career in opera and covers a range of disciplines taught by specialists.

One of the current students, Elizabeth Davidson, has recently won a place on the respected National Opera Studio course. ENO EvolveLaunched in autumn 2009, ENO Evolve, led by ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, gives students of the Royal College of Music the opportunity to see how an opera orchestra works. The participants shadow ENO musicians as the orchestra prepares for new productions. In the autumn they were involved with Boris Godunov and will soon be working alongside Edward Gardner and the ENO Orchestra on ENO's new production of Peter Grimes. ENO Young Singers ENO Young Singers provides coaching, training and stage opportunities for talented singers, following their music college training.

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