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Martyn Rose appointed Chairman of English National Opera
Thu 04 Apr 13 -
Martyn Rose, one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs and business figures, has today been appointed as the chairman of English National Opera, a role he will take up on 1 May 2013.
Met and ENO present Nico Muhly world premiere
Date published: Wed 17 Feb 10
The Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera (ENO) will co-produce a world premiere production of composer Nico Muhly's first opera. With a libretto by Craig Lucas, the opera is a fictionalised story based on a true story in which a teenager attempts to arrange his own murder via the internet. The new production, directed by Bartlett Sher, will debut at the ENO's London Coliseum in June 2011 and be presented during the Met's 2013-14 season. The creative team includes Sher's longtime collaborators set designer Michael Yeargan and costume designer Catherine Zuber, as well as the acclaimed London-based video designers Fifty Nine Productions and lighting designer Donald Holder.
Date published: Fri 18 Dec 09
Two of Donizetti’s most enduring operas Lucia di Lammermoor and The Elixir of Love are staged in February 2010. Lucia di Lammermoor, directed by David Alden, opens on 4 February with the star cast led by Anna Christy returning for its first revival. Jonathan Miller directs a new production, originally seen at New York City Opera, of the popular The Elixir of Love (opens on 12 February) with a strong cast led by Sarah Tynan and Andrew Shore with 1950s Hopper inspired sets by Isabella Bywater.
Improbable return to direct Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Date published: Fri 18 Dec 09
Director Phelim McDermott and designer Julian Crouch, two of the three co-artistic directors of the visionary British theatre company, Improbable, direct and design the highly acclaimed Satyagraha.
Deborah Warner stages a new production of Handel’s Messiah at ENO
Date published: Fri 30 Oct 09
Deborah Warner directs a new staging of Handel’s famous oratorio for ENO.
La Fura dels Baus opens ENO’s new Season with Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre
Date published: Thu 20 Aug 09
The directors of world renowned Catalan ‘total theatre’ company, La Fura dels Baus, bring their highly unusual settings and black humour to the direction of Hungarian composer Ligeti’s ‘anti anti-opera’ in a new production of Le Grand Macabre which opens ENO’s 2009/10 Season on 17 September at the London Coliseum.
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