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The Latest Breaking News from English National Opera

David Rendall obituary

Tenor who sang at La Scala and Glyndebourne and although dogged by misfortune lived life to the full

The Guardian - UK

Mary, Queen of Scots review – trouser suits and relentless tension in Musgrave’s bleak opera

Thea Musgrave’s 1977 account of the persecuted queen has been reimagined in terms of 20th century sectarianism in Stewart Laing’s production. It is sung and acted with blazing conviction by English National Opera

The Guardian - UK

New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

It was a thrilling year with glittering new works, an electrifying Proms season, Puccini in a laundry and Britten on a trapeze

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Five-hour avant garde Philip Glass opera among ENO’s Manchester plans

Programme for company’s move north includes Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, Britten and a new youth company

The Guardian - UK

The Turn of the Screw review – creepy and challenging, ENO’s new Britten staging is an ambiguous triumph

Isabella Bywater’s intelligent and demanding production injects fresh menace into Henry James’s tale of a ghosts and dark histories

The Guardian - UK

La bohème review – ENO celebrate Puccini centenary with compelling new talent

Jonathan Miller’s 2009 staging opens English National Opera’s season with Nadine Benjamin an affecting Mimì and conductor Clelia Cafiero, making an impressive UK debut

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Luxon obituary

Versatile baritone who appeared on television in Britten’s opera for the medium, Owen Wingrave, and in The Good Old Days

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The Guardian view on discord in the arts world: a distraction from the real crisis

Editorial: Scrapping over the way money is distributed is no answer to the problems created by a decade of underfunding

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Duke Bluebeard’s Castle review – erotic, unsettling and beautifully staged

A last-minute cast substitution added a remarkable gender twist to Bartók’s opera about marital disintegration

The Guardian - UK

Jenůfa review – Alden’s harrowing staging remains a formidable piece of theatre

Jennifer Davis in the title role and Susan Bullock as Kostelnička are both outstanding in Janáček’s unremittingly intense tale relocated to a drab industrial town in post-communist Europe

The Guardian - UK

The Magic Flute review – ENO’s revival is a peach of wit, wisdom and laughs

There’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, with Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a demented dalek-like Queen of the Night

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera employees to strike over cuts

Underfunding of Manchester move blamed as Musicians’ Union announces first full strike in 44 years

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera members to vote on strike action over pay dispute

Equity union says chorus members will vote in early January on whether to act over plans to cut salaries by 40%

The Guardian - UK

Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review

Amid the funding woes there were still bright spots this year, from Bach to Byrd, and the Rite to Rachmaninov, while the streaming world continued to evolve and expand

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English National Opera announces Manchester as its new home

Opera company was told by Arts Council England last year that it would lose its £12m of its funding unless it moved out of London

The Guardian - UK

‘This could be really interesting’: Manchester and English National Opera may yet suit each other

London’s loss will be Manchester’s gain as the opera company announces it is to create a base in the thriving cultural centre

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English National Opera announces Greater Manchester will be its new home

The company, which had a shortlist of five cities, had been told funding was dependent on leaving London

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The Guardian view on touring opera: thwarted in its mission to bring music to the people

Editorial: It would be a tragedy if funding cuts reinforced the myth that a varied and vital art form is simply a pastime for the metropolitan elite

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The week in classical: La rondine; La traviata review – rapture and raw power

Puccini’s flighty swallow soars in James Hurley’s gorgeous new production for Opera North. And Nicole Chevalier is devastating as the doomed Violetta in ENO’s impassioned revival of no-frills Verdi

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La Traviata review – radical revival powered by outstanding performers

Painstakingly restored by Ruth Knight for ENO, Peter Konwitschny’s production pares the Verdi opera down to its absolute essence

The Independent UK

Cuts to English National Opera will lead to its demise, music directors warn

The company plans to axe 19 posts and employ its remaining musicians on part-time contracts.

The Independent UK

English National Opera cuts risk ‘killing off of art form’, warn prominent music directors

Former ENO conductors Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder and the Royal Opera House’s Sir Antonio Pappano said cuts would make company ‘an empty shell of its former self’

The Guardian - UK

ENO’s music director resigns over proposed cuts to musical staff positions

Martyn Brabbins says proposals to axe 19 posts and employ remaining musicians part-time is plan of ‘managed decline’

The Independent UK

Arts Council adjusts funding plans for English National Opera move out of London

The public body has extended the deadline for a new ENO main base outside London by three years.

The Guardian - UK

Graham Clark obituary

Tenor who loved exploring dramatic possibilities in Wagner with imaginative directors at Bayreuth and Covent Garden

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