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Mary Bevan as Eurydice and Alan Oke as John Styx in ENO's Orpheus in the Underworld, supposedly a comic operetta Photo: Bill Knight/Th...

No, not those parties. These are Baron Zeta's embassy ball, and Hanna Glawari's glamour-trip do. We're in Paris and we're at...

If you were among the thousands of people who last Thursday lapped up the Royal Albert Hall showing of Independence Day with the score play...

Daniel Kramer. Photo: mariinsky.ru The announcement is in. It's Daniel Kramer. He takes over on 1 August. The American-British dir...

At yesterday's Olivier Awards, the prize for Outstanding Achievement in Opera went to ENO's orchestra and chorus. I should thi...

ENO: sink or swim? The meltdown facing ENO at the moment is disgraceful. No artistic director has yet been appointed. Mark Wigglesworth...

A press release from Mark Wigglesworth's PR has just hit my in-box bearing the following information. Wigglesworth seemed to be the only...

Cressida Pollock, head of English National Opera, has written a piece for today's Independent about the current crisis and how she's...

The announcement of ENO's new season got off to a slightly flummoxed start yesterday at a press conference in which questions from the f...

I went to visit rehearsals for The Indian Queen at ENO's West Hampstead studios and found the one and only Peter Sellars, who's dire...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/stuart-skelton-rising-to-the-challenge-of-otello-9722095.html Here&#...

It's the deadline from hell. If Benvenuto Cellini hasn't cast his golden Perseus statue by morning, the Pope will have him hanged...

When it's a turkey. Here's my review of the new Die Fledermaus at ENO. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/re...

A fascinating business, this: coming back from that very Beethoveny trip to Bonn and landing bang in the middle of Calixto Bieito's prod...

In which the Bad Boy of Opera turns out to be a pussycat. I went to see him to preview his Fidelio , which opens at ENO this week . Some of ...

If you like surrealism, you'll love Martinu's Julietta . It's now on at ENO in a slick staging by Richard Jones first seen in...

Let's get to the heart of this right away. How can we "do" Romanticism in an age of cynical post-modern irony? I don't pre...