by Guy Rickards | May 14, 2026 | Drama, Music
Rodney Earl Clarke, Allison Cook, Onstage Camera Operator, ENO’s Angel’s Bone at Aviva Studios, May 2026 © Tristram Kenton Du Yun Angel’s Bone ENO / Baldur Brönnimann – Aviva Studios, Manchester, 12 May 2026 By Robert Beale When English National Opera... 
by Guy Rickards | Feb 18, 2026 | Drama, Music
Kenneth Kellogg, Rosie Aldridge, Mark Le Brocq, ENO’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny © Tristram Kenton 2026 Weill: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ENO / André de Ridder The Coliseum, London, February 16, 2026 There is a heartlessness, a calculated... 
by Guy Rickards | Dec 6, 2025 | Drama, Music
The Cast of ENO’s HMS Pinafore, 2025 (c) Craig Fuller Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore ENO / Matthew Kofi Waldren The Coliseum, London, December 4, 2025 With the run-up to Christmas in full swing, English National Opera’s revival of Cal McCrystal’s Olivier... 
by Guy Rickards | Nov 24, 2025 | Drama, Music
The cast of ENO’s Partenope, 2025 (c) Lloyd Winters ENO / William Cole The Coliseum, London, 22 November 2025 A week may be a long time in politics but three-and-a-half hours is a goodly while in comic opera. However, despite a convoluted, frivolous plot that is... 
by Guy Rickards | Oct 15, 2025 | Drama, Music
Eddie Wade and Caspar Singh celebrate Albert’s “coronation”, ENO’s Albert Herring 2025 © Genevieve Girling ENO / Daniel Cohen The Coliseum, London, October 13, 2025 Of Britten’s sixteen operas (if one counts his thoroughgoing 1948 adaptation of The...