UNBELIEVABLE: English national opera | History Defined

Come on Andy… stop gaslighting us and fund music education. It’ll be worth it I promise

Julian Lloyd Webber is the latest to decry the decline of UK music education. Why won’t politicians put the money where the mouth is? Plus, ENO drops its ‘E’

The Guardian - UK · 20h ago

Iphigénie en Tauride review – stylised staging of opera of bloodthirsty priestesses and divine intervention

English National Opera’s production of Gluck’s opera has strong leads in Christine Rice, Nick Pritchard and Jacques Imbrailo. But why is it sung in French?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8

Tosca at London Coliseum: Too much feels cold and detached

3/5 Some spectacular action and masterful conducting can’t quite cover the incoherence in English National Opera’s new Eastern Europe-set production

Evening Standard · Nov 2

Così fan tutte at ENO: Has a broad humour that Mozart might have enjoyed

4/5 English National Opera’s production of Mozart’s classic transports the tale to 1950’s Coney Island with dazzling mayhem the result

Evening Standard · Feb 9

Dead Man Walking at London Coliseum: 'worth the 25-year wait to see this opera finally staged in London'

4/5 English National Opera gives popular show based on Death Row memoir its first full staging in London

Evening Standard · Nov 2, 2025

Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy

English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a sitcom feel

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2025

Albert Herring at English National Opera: 'Small scale but packs a punch'

4/5 Small but perfectly formed Albert Herring from an ENO entering its ‘twin city’ era

Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2025

Cinderella review – fun-forward fairytale kicks off ENO makeover

Julia Burbach’s energetic staging of Rossini sets the tone for English National Opera’s new split-site era, bringing lashings of chorus comedy and a pacy conductor’s debut by Yi-Chen Lin

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2025

David Rendall obituary

Tenor who sang at La Scala and Glyndebourne and although dogged by misfortune lived life to the full

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2025

Mary, Queen of Scots review – trouser suits and relentless tension in Musgrave’s bleak opera

Thea Musgrave’s 1977 account of the persecuted queen has been reimagined in terms of 20th century sectarianism in Stewart Laing’s production. It is sung and acted with blazing conviction by English National Opera

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025