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Classical REVIEW: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs @ ENO

Classical REVIEW: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs @ ENO

This haunting performance of Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony is a startlingly but soothing staging from the ENO yet again showing us what a dedicated team of people can do with imagination, flair and a determination to explore and share the very best of music with a diverse and invested audience.

OPERA REVIEW: It’s a Wonderful Life @ ENO

OPERA REVIEW: It’s a Wonderful Life @ ENO

Wonderful Life is a cosy, warm offering from the ENO, filled with astonishing bursts of beauty from a magnificent cast.. The unrequited hopes, longing and dreams at the heart of this Opera are overwhelmed on occasion by it being dipped in honey, it’s …Celestial gaslighting in action.

REVIEW: The Yeoman of the Guard @ ENO

REVIEW: The Yeoman of the Guard @ ENO

A successful night and a polished introduction to a remodelled Yeoman. Offering a fine evening of nostalgic semi-serious opera with its heart of G&S essential silliness maintained.

OPERA REVIEW: Iolanthe @ENO

OPERA REVIEW: Iolanthe @ENO

Iolanthe English National Opera This all new production of Iolanthe has a different director Cal McCrystal from the ENO G&S smash hit Pirates of Penzance, but looks like being as huge a success as that was. McCrystal – who is newish to opera – plays it straight, proper Gilbert and Sullivan and this

OPERA REVIEW: Satyagraha @ENO

OPERA REVIEW: Satyagraha @ENO

Visually it’s astonishing, blending and weaving itself with an endless sense of movement, representing the public support for Gandhi in the printed press. I was transfixed as the second part rose to its crescendo and with the projections, movement of actors, changing lighting effects and full of for

OPERA REVIEW: Marnie @ENO

OPERA REVIEW: Marnie @ENO

Daughter. Liar. Wife. Thief. She has been running for so long, no one knows the real Marnie, least of all herself. A world premiere opera from composer Nico Muhly, with a libretto by Nicholas Wright, Marnie is based on the novel by Winston Graham although alludes to the Hitchcock film. It examines t

REVIEW: Rodelinda @ENO

REVIEW: Rodelinda @ENO

This is one of the best productions of Rodelinda I’ve seen and the strong Welsh contingent gives it a real Celtic flavour and strength, it’s a three and half hour thumper of a piece and might run over, but for me it could have gone on twice as long and got me all the way home to Brighton in state of

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