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Duke Bluebeard's Castle is plain sinister

09.11.09
ENO’s coupling of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is unconventional but inspired.... more

Five great hoaxes in history

16.10.09
Following the supposed hoax that a boy was carried away by a weather balloon, we take a look at five other hoaxes that have fooled people everywhere... more

Puccini served as chop suey in Turnadot

09.10.09
You can see why ENO might have thought it a bright idea to hire the West End director Rupert Goold for its new Turandot.... more

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

Multiple Pianos Day comes to the Proms

10.08.09
Multiple Pianos was the theme of a pair of Proms, beginning with a family-style afternoon concert.... more

L’Amour de Loin is a truly epic love affair

06.07.09
Gorgeous is the word for Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin, which gets its British premiere at the Coliseum.... more

Madam Butterfly needs the right tone

11.06.09
There is a combination of cool elegance and tawdry glamour that is too often at odds with the emotional involvement of Madam Butterfly.... 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

Peter Grimes is Great Britten's anti-hero

11.05.09
David Alden, in his dark, challenging new production of Peter Grimes offers an intriguing but compelling slant on that perception.... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. ... 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

Boris Godunov is just good enough

11.11.08
This ENO production of Boris Godunov seems a worthy affair rather than a triumph, says Barry Millington.... more

Music

08.10.08
Live music, be it opera or rock festivals, is proving more popular than ever — and is offering a desperately needed financial lifeline. London remains the heartbeat of the industry. ... more

The gold Standard party

07.10.08
The most influential people in London gathered at the launch of the Evening Standard's glossy magazine The 1000: London's Most Influential People 2008... 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

The 25 must-see Proms

16.07.08
The 2008 Proms caters for all tastes, prejudices and proclivities as never before. Here are the moments you can't miss.... more

ENO are almost triumphant

30.05.08
Der Rosenkavalier is a comedy of a boy whose voice has not yet broken but whose busy libido has been awakened by a woman old enough to be his mother.... more

War child’s vengeance

25.04.08
The mix of amplified and orchestral sounds makes the music in Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater all the more atmospheric, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

The knockout Punch

21.04.08
With an impeccable cast and bold staging, Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy has been restored with pugnacious vitality at the Young Vic.... more

Costumes are almost louder than singers

09.11.07
At its best this Aida begins to look like the success ENO badly need, says Barry Millington. But a great opera house cannot thrive on crowd-pleasers.... more

Zandra goes to the opera

07.11.07
Flamboyant designer Zandra Rhodes has created the costumes and set for Verdi's Aida. But can she make it the Christmas hit the English National Opera so desperately needs?... 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

Adams's mystifying but soothing eco-fable

13.08.07
John Adams's new opera, A Flowering Tree, shuns the contemporary politics of Nixon in China and turns to ancient South Indian mythology.... more

ENO is back with La Clemenza di Tito

11.06.07
ENO's 2005 production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito is back for the first time but without the same tight focus. ... more

Bewitching decadence

25.05.07
English National Opera's first ever staging of Britten's last opera, Death in Venice, is a typically thoughtful treatment by Deborah Warner and exquisitely designed by Tom Pye.... more

Critic's choice: opera

05.12.06
The Glyndebourne on Tour programme features Cosi fan Tutte, Turn of the Screw and Die Fledermaus, and they are all worth catching, says Barry Millington.... more

Just the season for subtle ghost story

01.11.06
The subtlety of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw has ensured its survival and this Glyndebourne on Tour production is alert to its contemporary resonances.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Classical Events

24.08.06
Barry Millington's pick of the weekend's top classical events includes some Mozart at Greenwich park and the Minnesota Orchestra at the Proms with phenomenal pianist Llyr Williams...... more

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