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DAMON ALBARN’S DR DEE AT ENO TICKETS ONSALE FRIDAY 4
Date published: Wed 02 Nov 11
Tickets for performances of Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee, directed by Rufus Norris, goon sale on the day the London 2012 Festival launches, Friday 4 November, at 10.00 from www.eno.org / PHONE NO. 0871 472 0600 ENO presents the London premiere of Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee, first staged July2011 at Manchester International Festival. This visionary new work which The Observer called “A thoroughly beguiling spectacle, suffused with a gloriously richtonal score” and Opera magazine dubbed an “undeniably heartfelt hymn to Albion,celebrating the cultural richness of these isles from Gloriana to Cool Britannia” runsfor eight performances from 25 June, 2012 as part of the London 2012 Festival.
Catherine Malfitano’s critically acclaimed Tosca returns to ENO with Claire Rutter in title role
Date published: Wed 02 Nov 11
Reviving one of ENO’s most popular productions of recent years, Catherine Malfitano returns to ENO with her production of Tosca. Critically acclaimed when itwas first staged in 2010, Claire Rutter leads an exemplary cast in this rousing and insightful version of one of Puccini’s best-loved operas, conducted by Stephen Lord.
Date published: Wed 02 Nov 11
‘Warner’s command of the Coliseum’s wide stage is masterful.’ The Daily Telegraph on Warner’s Messiah, ENO, 2009
Acclaimed international director Deborah Warner and ENO have developed a strong creative partnership in recent years which has produced landmark and critically acclaimed reinterpretations ofThe Messiah, St John Passion and Death In Venice.
The director, who the Sunday Times credited with “making theatre that is an adventure, a journey of the mind”, returns to ENO to stage a new production of Tchaikovsky’s lyrical masterpiece Eugene Onegin.
Barrie Kosky makes his Company debut with ENO’s first ever Rameau opera, Castor & Pollux
Date published: Wed 02 Nov 11
In a landmark staging, ENO presents its first Rameau directed by leading opera and theatre director Barrie Kosky. Baroque specialist Christian Curnyn conducts, leading a strong cast featuring Allan Clayton and Sophie Bevan, both of whom are members of this year’s ENO Young Singers Programme, as Castor and Telaïre. Brothers Castor and Pollux are both in love with Telaïre, who loves only Castor. Pollux is immortal and Castor is not. The effects of this complexity are only intensified by Phoebe, Telaïre’s sister, declaring love for Pollux, which is unrequited. The battles and anguish of unending love, jealousy and fraternal duty are played out through the ages-old story, until the four meet their fates.
Date published: Tue 11 Oct 11
Fiona Shaw, one of Britain’s finest theatre, film and television actors, made her stunning opera directing debut in 2008 with Vaughan Williams’Riders to the Sea. Since then her relationship with ENO has blossomed and her 2010 Olivier nominated production of Hans Werner Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers was a hit with critics and audiences alike. Shaw now returns to ENO to direct this new production of The Marriage of Figaro.
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Richard Strauss’s charming Viennese comedy returns to the London Coliseum in David McVicar’s delightful 2008 staging
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David McVicar's classic 2008 staging of Strauss's charming
Viennese comedy returns to the Coliseum.
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