 | Daniel Slater directs Mozart at Garsington 17 May 2013 Affable, relaxed and knowledgeable, Daniel Slater may seem easy-going but his mind races when he waxes lirico about opera. Those synapses crackle with creative enthusiasm – which is just as we.... More... |
 | Simon Thomas: ENO's new season most exciting for years 1 May 2013 If English National Opera is experiencing financial difficulties at the moment, nobody’s told the management. At the launch of the 2013/14 season, the top team – Edward Gardner, J.... More... |
 | Wagner cornerstone of BBC Proms 2013 19 April 2013 Following a superb line-up of operas at last year’s BBC Proms, this season promises to be equally strong, especially if you’re a Wagner fan. The programme, which has just been announ.... More... |
 | Winners of the Opera Poll 2013 announced 24 February 2013 Now an annual event, the whatsonstage.com Opera Poll saw fierce voting from over 1000 members of the general public and opera aficionados, and we’re delighted to announce the results. Opera .... More... |
 | Podcast: Behind the scenes with ENO's La Traviata 18 January 2013 Peter Konwitschny's highly filmic new staging of Verdi's La Traviata is now an opera in four "pictures": no interval, no grandstanding finales - not even Violetta's showstopping "Sempre libera" - but .... More... |
 | Podcast: Live & Uncut with ENO's Mikado 6 December 2012 It's an amazing statistic in itself that Jonathan Miller's now iconic production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado is one-fifth as old as the piece itself - that is 26 years. For 25 of those Richard .... More... |
 | Podcast: Behind the scenes with Calixto Bieito's Carmen 22 November 2012 The image of the toilet cubicles lingers on but no one can deny the fierce theatricality that shakes up English National Opera whenever Calixto Bieito's in town. His anarchic Don Giovanni made us .... More... |
 | Puppetry in Opera 15 November 2012 On Friday 8 November The Barbican hosted Puppetry in Opera, the first of two days organised by the Puppet Centre to explore the ways in which puppetry has been used in the past and visions for its f.... More... |
 | Podcast: Behind the scenes with ENO's Pilgrim's Progress 7 November 2012 Vaughan Williams' rapturous "Morality" (his chosen description) of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim's Progress opened this week at the Coliseum - the English National Opera presenting the opera's first.... More... |
 | WOS Radio: Focus on English National Opera's Billy Budd 18 June 2012 Fresh from the quarterdeck of HMS Indomitable and David Alden's brand new staging of Britten's Billy Budd able seamen Benedict Nelson, Nicky Spence, and Duncan Rock are shining examples of a revolutio.... More... |