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ENO 2010/11 Season Announcement

Thu 15 Apr 10 -

ENO's 2010/11 Season highlights a commitment to reaching a wider audience for opera through an imaginative artistic programme, rich in new productions and dynamic in bringing together creative talent from across the arts. Collaborations with partners around the world are a key feature of the season. ENO is currently working with over 20 international opera houses, joining forces to maximise investment and talent, and to develop productions that would otherwise not be seen by UK audiences.

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Ian McMillan becomes ENO's first Poet in Residence

Date published: Fri 18 Jun 10

ENO has launched a new programme of learning and participation initiatives aimed at widening audiences for opera and developing engagement. The programme includes the appointment of Ian McMillan as ENO's first Poet in Residence, creche facilities to allow parents of young children to attend the opera and Opera Preview nights for anyone wishing to sample the upcoming season.

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Katie Mitchell directs a new production of Idomeneo for ENO

Date published: Tue 18 May 10

ENO presents a new production of Mozart’s first mature and rarely staged masterpiece, Idomeneo, for the first time since 1962. Directed by the award-winning Katie Mitchell she brings her intensity of emotion and distinct style to one of Mozart’s most deeply felt pieces. ENO’s Music Director Edward Gardner conducts the virtuosic yet often intimately lyrical score with an exciting cast of some of Britain’s best operatic talent led by Paul Nilon.

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Penny Woolcock directs a new production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers

Date published: Tue 04 May 10

Penny Woolcock returns to ENO to direct her second opera for the Company following the success of her debut, John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera. Rising star Rory Macdonald conducts Bizet’s exciting and dramatic score after his success last season with The Barber of Seville. An excellent cast is led by one of Britain’s best loved tenors Alfie Boe.

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ENO 2010/11 Season Press Information

Date published: Thu 15 Apr 10

Press Information document for the 2010/11 Season

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ENO Young Singers is re-launched

Date published: Thu 15 Apr 10

ENO has expanded its successful Young Singers programme to offer a more individually tailored and flexible training programme to a wider group of young singers each year.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Loretta Tomasi
Loretta Tomasi
Chief Executive of ENO since November 2005, having been Executive Director of ENO from May 2003 [...]
 
John Berry
John Berry
As Artistic Director of ENO since November 2005, John Berry has been responsible for the artistic programme at ENO [...]
 
Edward Gardner
Edward Gardner
Recognised as one of the most talented conductors of his generation, Edward Gardner began his tenure as Music Director of English National Opera in May 2007 [...]