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Opening this week in London

14.09.09
Ben Hur! is brought back to life at the O2, Coldplay, Jay-Z and Girls Aloud perform at Wembley and see the first night of Mother Courage and her Children ... more

For those who like larger ladies, meet ENO's Claudia

03.09.09
She crawls, she can move through 360 degrees, and she is as tall as the stage at one of London’s leading opera houses... more

A young person's guide to the opera

13.05.09
Not only has Edward Gardner, ENO's 34-year-old music director, scored another hit with Peter Grimes this week - he's leading a cultural revolution... more

Macbeth, Oliver! and now Puccini... theatre director Goold signs up to ENO

02.04.09
Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season ... more

Royal Opera House takes a break at the seaside

23.03.09
The Royal Opera House is to make its debut on the festival circuit with performances at this year's Latitude... more

Return of the great British soprano

04.03.09
Amanda Roocroft’s singing career looked burnt out — but her comeback at English National Opera next week offers a lesson for the next generation of divas... more

Booming voices in Doctor Atomic

26.02.09
John Adams's latest opera Doctor Atomic has a savage beauty and explosive climax, leaving questions open.... more

The Miller’s tale revisited

07.01.09
For a decade the director has complained that no one wanted him in London. Now Jonathan Miller is back at ENO — with a radical new production of La Bohème inspired by Brassaï... more

Wave of emotion in Riders to the Sea

28.11.08
Death permeates Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea, and it hovers tragically over English National Opera’s production.... more

Opera acrobatics as ENO looks to the circus

24.11.08
The excitement of the big top will come to the Coliseum when circus director Daniele Finzi Pasca takes over in the summer... more

A tenor for a tenner with ENO and the Standard

03.10.08
The English National Opera is offering 10,000 tickets to see some of its hottest productions for only £10... more

Great gags in The Barber of Seville

23.09.08
Conductor Rory Macdonald, working with ENO for the first time, delivers finesse as well as energy in The Barber of Seville.... more

A new spin for Cav and Pag

22.09.08
The tales of adultery, jealousy and murder in Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci are the archetype of opera at its most overheated. ... more

Under-30s rush for cheap seats at the ENO

19.09.08
English National Opera has seen a massive growth in its membership scheme for the under-thirties... more

Scally boys, The Coral, grow into real stars

30.07.08
Former school friends The Coral have whittled themselves down to a quintet and upped their game beyond all measure.... more

Lie back and think of the Balkans

28.04.08
The Merry Widow has a lively cast, with strong chorus and choreography. The weakest link, unusually, is the orchestra, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

It's an opera mash-up

12.03.08
English National Opera is joining forces with the Young Vic to create a new kind of opera out of a film by David Lynch. Something as bold as this could work only in London, says its director Diane Paulus.... more

Opera saved by a star in the wings as lead singer is taken ill

18.02.08
A member of a West End opera audience received a huge ovation when he stepped in to sing the lead role after the star lost his voice... more

A fearfully good ghost tale

27.11.07
Musical standards were high as The English National Opera finally found a hit with David McVicar's gripping staging of The Turn of the Screw.... more

Down to her Freudian slip

19.10.07
One outstanding performance made this new staging of Monteverdi's 1643 opera, The Coronation of Poppea, just about worthwhile, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

No smoke, no smut

01.10.07
This almost unbelievably wide of the mark production of Carmen has no smoke, no energy and no intensity.... more

'It was shockingly, gloriously awful'

22.08.07
As Michael Ball prepares for his first Prom, he reveals the full story of his role in English National Opera's biggest critical flop in years.... more

A terrible fate should befall this Kismet

28.06.07
West End star Michael Ball made his national opera debut, but Kismet left Fiona Maddocks asking who on earth allowed the production to happen?... more

Singalong-a-London: the musical we can all join in

20.06.07
Thousands of singers will take part in 10 days of events at venues ranging from libraries to bus routes when Sing London begins next week... more

There's no ignoring good box office

24.04.07
While there are some problems with On The Town, Nick Kimberley is certain it is a show that will gather momentum.... more

A virtual night at the opera

05.02.07
The English National Opera has joined forces with Sony to give music fans a virtual behind-the-scenes seat for its production of La Bohëme.... more

Olivier nominations in full

18.01.07
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Full of Eastern promise

10.10.06
With two poorly received stagings and the season barely a month old, English National Opera needed a hit. In this raw and intelligent staging of Jenufa it has one.... more

A night at the hip-hopera

08.09.06
Gaddafi: A Living Myth was given its world premiere at a Coliseum packed with leading lights of arts and politics as well as a multi-cultural presence never before seen in this gilded auditorium.... more

Hip-hop into opera with ENO's Gaddafi

06.09.06
An opera based on the life of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi is to open in London amid controversy.... more

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