A bittersweet blend of young love and mid-life melancholy, Richard Strauss's charming Viennese comedy returns to the London Coliseum in David McVicar's delightfully detailed staging, first seen in 2008. Rejoicing in some of the composer's most opulent orchestration and voluptuous melodies, as well as some insidiously catchy waltz tunes, Der Rosenkavalier offers a treat for fans of the female voice.
Hopelessly besotted with a flighty prima donna, the poet Hoffmann drunkenly recalls the three loves of his life: Olympia, a mechanical doll; Antonia, a sick young singer; and Giulietta, a Venetian whore who stole his reflection and his soul.
Following highly successful productions of John Adams's Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, ENO presents the London stage premiere of the American composer?s controversial 'docu-opera' about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants. More info »
What's at the heart of a woman? Eccentric toymaker Dr. Coppelius wants to know and he is planning to bring his mechanical doll, Coppelia, to life - he just needs the right spell. More info »
English National Ballet celebrates the legacy of the Ballets Russes with performances inspired by some of the troupe's great works. Ballets Russes productions were collaborations with major choreographers, composers, artists and dancers of the time including Pavlova, Picasso, Debussy, Chanel, Matisse, Nijinsky and Stravinsky. More info »
English National Ballet celebrates the legacy of the Ballets Russes with performances inspired by some of the troupe's great works. Ballets Russes productions were collaborations with major choreographers, composers, artists and dancers of the time including Pavlova, Picasso, Debussy, Chanel, Matisse, Nijinsky and Stravinsky. More info »
Last year's performances of Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, were hailed as 'a staging that is as good as any Wagner seen in London in the last 20 years' (The Guardian). More info »
Hailed by the Sunday Telegraph as 'the most beautiful show of the year in operatic London' and later staged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the late Anthony Minghella's Olivier Award-winning take on Puccini's culture-clash tragedy returns. More info »
Based upon Albert Camus's existentialist response to the rise of Hitler and Stalin, but as topical as ever in the era of Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi, Detlev Glanert's 2006 opera 'perhaps the finest German opera of the 21st century' (Tempo) - offers a disturbing insight into the self-destructive logic driving a decadent and dangerous dictatorship. More info »
ENO continues to refresh its Britten repertoire with this new production by the team behind ENOs award-winning Peter Grimes. More info »
Although largely unknown today, Doctor Dee was the quintessential Renaissance Man. From astrology to alchemy and physics to philosophy, his thirst for knowledge was insatiable and, as a key advisor to Elizabeth I, he is credited with providing much of the intelligence which shaped ?the British Empire? established under her rule. Dee also dabbled in the occult and, ultimately, this fascination destroyed him. Conned by deranged medium, Dee?s career ended in disgrace and sexual scandal and he died discredited and penniless. More info »
"David Haig gives the performance of his life as King George III in the West End premiere of Alan Bennett's smash-hit comedy."
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