The Latest Breaking News from ENO

The Arts Council’s plan to force out the English National Opera reveals that the funding cake is simply too small, not that the capital is greedy

ENO stands firm amid extreme funding cuts with a Gilbert and Sullivan staging full of vim and vigour, while animal magic ripples through Richard Jones’s new Alcina

ENO head says plan to force it to move out of capital is unworkable and ‘absurd’

Arts Council to scrap annual £12.8m grant if ENO does not comply with government levelling up agenda

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday, November 7, 2022.

RIGHT now, London has two opera houses. (Berlin has three.) There’s the Royal Opera, the grand one, in Covent Garden, and, in the West End, you can see English National Opera a mile off, under the sparkly orb of the London Coliseum. They’re different. The Royal Opera attracts singers you’d…

The prestigious national institution said it was considering moving its headquarters to the city

Some of the capital’s most prestigious venues face huge funding cuts or removal of Arts Council support altogether

English National Opera to create new base, possibly in Manchester, but will still manage Coliseum