English National Opera’s ENO Breathe programme proven to improve long COVID
A new study in The Lancet Digital Health shows that ENO Breathe significantly improves quality of life for people living with long COVID.
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Interview: Weston Hurt – the baritone with a limb difference – makes his debut with English National Opera as Rigoletto
Graham Spicer talks with baritone Weston Hurt about his disability and using it to his advantage on the opera stage.
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Natalia Osipova and international ballet stars dance for Ukraine
Former Royal Ballet stars Ivan Putrov (Ukraine) and Alina Cojocaru (Romania) are putting on Dance for Ukraine, a benefit gala at the London Coliseum.
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Tides of Memory: a film by Luisa Mariani inspired by William Kentridge
As the 2020 edition of the International New York Film Festival comes to a close, an Italian entry stands out called Tides of Memory, inspired by an encounter with William Kentridge and his extraordinary work Triumphs and Laments on the embankment of the River Tiber, a powerful, poetic and bemused reflection on man, time and…
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#OperaPassion from the BBC with a live streaming day, events on TV and radio, and the V&A’s “Opera: Passion, Power and Politics”
Tony Hall, currently the Director-General of the BBC but previously the Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House from 2001 until 2013, is bringing his opera experience to broadcasting in a bold new collaborative project. Across the season, which starts on 30 September, the BBC will work with 12 UK partners, including major cultural organisations…
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Sneak preview: Hänsel and Gretel at La Scala, Milan
Tonight, a new productions of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel opens in Milan at Teatro alla Scala. The cast features opera students from La Scala‘s prestigious Academy. This, however, is no student production. German director, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, has worked extensively in opera, mainly in Germany and Austria. The strong connection with La Scala’s current Intendant,…
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The world’s cheapest city (and most expensive) for a cultural break
Prague has come up trumps as the place where those planning a cultural city break can save money this autumn, according to the 2017 British Post Office Travel Money Cost of Culture Report. The Czech capital emerges as cheapest in a survey of opera, dance, music concert, gallery and museum prices in 16 cultural cities,…
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‘Ousted’ ENO director gets top job at the Bolshoi
In an unprecedented move, it seems that ‘ousted’ English National Opera artistic director, John Berry, has been snapped up by the Bolshoi Theatre. It is extremely rare for non-Russians to hold administrative posts. Gleaning information from today’s Financial Times and The Times, it seems – though there has been no official announcement by the theatre…
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Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson to star in Sweeney Todd in London
After the success of Sweeney Todd in concert with the New York Philharmonic in March of this year, Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson return in their roles for thirteen performances at the London Coliseum. It will be the first musical under the new collaboration between English National Opera and the GradeLinnit Company, which will see several semi-staged…
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Roberto Bolle becomes a King of Dance for London début (with surprise Queen)
The Kings of the Dance gets its first Re Italiano, as Roberto Bolle joins the roster of some of ballet’s most exciting male dancers, for the latest edition of the roadshow. The new tour will bring together American Ballet Theatre‘s Marcelo Gomes and Ivan Vasiliev, the Mariinsky’s Denis Matvienko, and the Mikhailovsky’s Leonid Sarafanov, all who have been seen…
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Olivier Award 2013 nominations announced: dance and opera
While it’s great to see 87-year-old working choreographer Gillian Lynne get a special award, there is Marianela Núñez in the running for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, a nomination richly deserved by the Royal Ballet‘s most radiant and thrilling ballerina. Another welcome name for dance is designer Lez Brotherston who has collaborated with Matthew Bourne‘s New Adventures from the beginning,…
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Interview with Alfie Boe: Royal Opera House and the ENO are “too proud and too stupid”
Alfie Boe is good at upsetting people. He speaks his mind, leaving diplomacy at home, and not thinking about the consequences. While he is certainly more of an opera singer than Katherine Jenkins, his opera performances are often sniffed at by critics and fans. In anticipation of his Glasgow concert at the end of this…
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The English National Opera’s promo for… um… err… The Elixir of Love?
The blurb says, Tell us what your most reliable elixir of love is for a chance to see Jonathan Miller’s comic production of Donizetti’s classic The Elixir of Love at the London Coliseum. Sep 15, 23, 28 & Oct 1, 4, 6, at 7.30pm Sep 17 at 6.30pm Sep 25 & Oct 8 at 3pm…
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Lord Harewood – cousin to the Queen and friend to Callas – has died at 88
George Harewood was an extraordinary powerhouse of a man, full of passion conveyed in his beautifully polished tones. The accent and comportment were entirely natural for George was a Lord: George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood. He was the eldest nephew of King George VI and was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, but the big thing in his…
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The ‘new Nureyev’? Can’t that be crossed out of the journalists’ handbook?
Certainly not-to-be-missed, the blurb from the ENO site announces the London performances of Romeo and Juliet with Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova: This July, for 9 performances only, Bolshoi superstars Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova, with sensational Danish ballet star Alban Lendorf, will perform a twenty-first century re-staging of Sir Frederick Ashton‘s Romeo & Juliet by Olivier Award winning Choreographer and…
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Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust at London Coliseum convinces the critics
After months of complaining (by critics and audience) that too many famous film or television directors were being let loose on the ENO stage with often disastrous results, it seems that the latest in the line has come up trumps. The Times says, That celebrated aphorism about monkeys, typewriters and the works of Shakespeare seems…
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Figgis’ Lucrezia Borgia at the English National Opera “really works”
Daily Express critic William Hartston feared the worst as the theatre lights dimmed: WHEN a cinema screen lowered over the stage at the Coliseum at the start of this new production of Donizetti’s rarely performed opera about wicked 15th century Italians, I thought, “Here we go again”. The ENO has a rather dodgy recent history…
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West End stars launch Get Into London Theatre
London theatre stars including Daniel Boys, Louise Dearman, Alex Gaumond, Ray Meagher, Ben Richards and the cast of Jersey Boys were among the theatre fans who celebrated the launch of Get Into London Theatre yesterday. Former Any Dream Will Do contestant and Avenue Q star Boys hosted the event, which was held at the Royal…
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