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ENO announces bold plan to stage Ring Cycle from the autumn

Richard Wagner’s four-part opera epic will play at London’s Coliseum over several years

Published: 24 Feb 2021

Elijah Moshinsky obituary

Opera director who came to prize directness and psychological insight over deconstruction and irony

Published: 25 Jan 2021

Observer critics' review of 2020 Classical music: Fiona Maddocks's 10 best of 2020

The year will be long remembered for recitals to an empty Wigmore Hall, car-park Puccini, Ravel as animation – and one man and his piano…

Published: 26 Dec 2020

4 out of 5 stars.

Lockdown culture English National Opera/Wigglesworth review – Mozart's Requiem is urgent and direct
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 16 Nov 2020

Classical highlights for the week ahead: 1-7 November

Our pick of the best upcoming concerts and operas - live and streamed

Published: 30 Oct 2020

4 out of 5 stars.

ENO's drive-in La bohème review – honk your horn for Mimi and Rodolfo
4 out of 5 stars.

ENO’s bravura car park production overcame all kinds of challenges, though couldn’t quite convey Puccini’s raw immediacy

Published: 26 Sep 2020
Orchestral manoeuvres in a car park: does drive-in opera hit the high notes?

With the action updated to a London car park and the audience in cars, ENO’s La Bohème is Europe’s first live drive-in opera. Our writer hops on his bike to watch the action from a socially distanced concrete square

Published: 20 Sep 2020

Theatres that made us 'It stank of fags and booze and we loved it' – theatres that made us, from Glasgow to Soho

In the final part of our series, UK arts figures give the lowdown on the precious places that nurtured their careers

Published: 23 Jul 2020
Culture in peril 'At last a glimpse of hope': UK arts leaders on the rescue package

Responses to the government’s promise of £1.57bn for the arts and heritage sectors

Published: 5 Jul 2020

Neil Howlett obituary

Baritone who excelled in Verdi and Wagner roles for English National Opera

Published: 18 Jun 2020

At the drive-in: ENO to stage opera at a safe physical distance

Live, physically distanced performances planned at Alexandra Palace for audience in cars (or on bicycles)

Published: 24 Apr 2020
Sir Peter Jonas obituary

Innovative arts administrator who served as the head of English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera

Published: 23 Apr 2020

Covid-19 prompts all major British theatres to close doors

Fifty London theatres and 250 throughout UK to close, says industry body

Published: 16 Mar 2020
4 out of 5 stars.

The Marriage of Figaro review – superb singing in hilarious staging
4 out of 5 stars.

A simple yet effective conceit is one of the revelations in a production strong on witty detail and anarchic stylisation

Published: 15 Mar 2020

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