Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — English National Opera, London Coliseum
The ticket price is, as the opera itself might argue, the least of what you'll pay — but it is very much worth it.
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Cosi Fan Tutti: ENO
this staging softens some of the original's nastier implications without entirely sanitizing them. What emerges is opera as guilty pleasure: brilliant, frivolous, and self-aware enough to get away with it.
Dead Man Walking at ENO: Grace Under the Shadow of Death English National Opera
Dead Man Walking resonates with devastating contemporary relevance.
This is opera at its highest capacity: posing unanswerable questions, creating space for profound feeling, then releasing us—irrevocably touched, fundamentally altered, alone with reconfigured thoughts.
Opera Review: ENO Mary Queen of Scots
There are huge amounts of drama, of change of place, of journeying, of transformation, of betrayal, but for some reason this very low-key, low-budget production doesn’t allow any of this to be explored other than through the music and the occasional singing burst, which are amazing but rare.
OPERA REVIEW: The Marriage of Figaro : ENO
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REVIEW: The Handmaid’s Tale @ English National Opera
The ENO’s revival of The Handmaid’s Tale, depicting the story of one ‘handmaiden’ Offred in this totalitarian, theonomic, and neo-Puritanical regime, is taken from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, veers away from too much direct graphic brutality but is a scary view of what might be, and is unremi
OPERA REVIEW: Peter Grimes @ London Coliseum (English National Opera)
A night of grim fascinations.