ENO - Press Releases

Deborah Warner returns to ENO to direct a brand new staging of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin

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.

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.

Date published: Tue 11 Oct 11

Described as a ‘masterpiece’ by The Telegraph and an ‘astonishing find’ by the Financial Times, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s opera, The Passenger, premieres at the London Coliseum after its critically acclaimed stage premiere at the Bregenz Festival and run in Warsaw in 2010. The Passenger is directed by world renowned director David Pountney. Sir Richard Armstrong conducts a stellar cast of Kim Begley, Michelle Breedt and Giselle Allen.