English National Opera

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Netia Jones's outstanding staging of Philip Glass's filmic opera reveals a company on top form

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A family favourite for more than 30 years, Jonathan Miller's fast, funny and satirical production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta returns for an incredible 15th time...

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Offenbach's cheerful operetta turns sour in a well-sung but skewed production, with Emma Rice making her debut as opera director

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Choreographer Wayne McGregor directs the first of ENO's four operas on the Orpheus myth, spanning three centuries. Gluck's version stars Alice Coote, Sarah Tynan and Soraya Mafi

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Women conductors make waves, the classics are refreshed by our leading orchestras, and opera goes from strength to strength

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Welcome new production of Harrison Birtwistle's instant classic, a complex retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story

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The classic fairy tale is told in song and dance in a traditional German opera rethought for a modern audience in a suitably outdoor setting

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The lustrous soprano Natalya Romaniw on playing 'I Spy' in Ukrainian, the great opera heroines, and corsets

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Seven new productions, four based on the Orpheus myth, and revivals of Bizet, Puccini and G&S

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The women whose lives are threatened or taken are at the forefront of an opera based on crimes in the East End

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Mozart's comic and heroic opera sparkles with the enchantment it promises in a welcome spring revival

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Money is no object when Hanna hits town, but affection for the dashing Danilo comes at a different price in Franz Lehár's scintillating comic opera

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A mesmerising revival: ENO's award-winning production of Philip Glass's opera set in Ancient Egypt, with a career-defining central performance

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A welcome return for Jonathan Miller's impeccable production of Puccini's tender opera, stylishly set in 1930s Paris

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Wolfgang Tillmans designs this outstanding operatic staging of a monumental lament for peace

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Musicals 

Jazz, ragtime, blues and spirituals infuse this grand opera which features ever-popular melodies, including 'Summertime...'

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Richard Strauss's turbulent opera opens ENO's woman-focused season 2018/19 with a warning to societies in meltdown

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English National Opera impresses with a fresh take on Britten's operetta

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Classical Music 

Brexit, language classes, and hearing in colour are all on the mind of the composer Roxanna Panufnik

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Prepare to be spooked, like the governess of two unsettling children in Benjamin Britten's spine-chilling opera The Turn of the Screw

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Fiona Shaw's theatrical take on Mozart's comic opera proposes a new outcome for a neglected wife

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A long-awaited debut ends in disappointment, but the resourceful ENO chorus comes up trumps

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Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe gets the One Man, Two Guvnors treatment as director Cal McCrystal takes on the entire House of Lords – and wins

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Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

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Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions

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A woman on the run, a man who cottons on ... Nico Muhly's new opera is a great psychological thriller staged with breathtaking style

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Deliciously sung but oddly dished-up, Handel's noble Rodelinda gets a slapstick treatment

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Thrill to Tchaikovsky, be amazed by Beethoven, or follow a woman with a secret at English National Opera

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Honest casting is the outstanding feature of the new production that opens English National Opera's new year

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Passion, heroism and pure knockabout comedy are the stars of a year of Coliseum highlights, launching 28 September, and all the operas are sung in English

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A jealous old guardian with plans to marry his attractive young ward who has a handsome young suitor... What can possibly go wrong?

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Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Handel and Britten, plus a new work by Nico Muhly, and a Gilbert and Sullivan political satire