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 Claudia Pritchard | Jan 24, 2025 | Drama, Music
Claus Guth’s Jenůfa, revived with an outstanding cast © RBO/Camilla Greenwell Royal Opera / Jakub Hrůša Royal Opera House, 18 January 2025 Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa never fails to shock, even more than 120 years after its first performance and a further 14... 
by Guy Rickards | Nov 29, 2024 | Drama, Music
Thomas Atkins, Segomotso Masego Shupinyaneng, and Rhian Lois, Rehearsal Image © Genevieve Girling English National Opera / Teresa Riveiro Böhm London Coliseum, 15th November 2024 Donizetti’s evergreen favourite, L’elisir d’amore (1832), was last staged at ENO in 2011,...