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‘Opera needs to attract good writers and tell better stories’: four experts on how opera can survive, thrive and reach new audiences

Earlier this month, former English National Opera artistic director John Berry said opera in the UK needed to “attract good writers and tell better stories” that could tap into the zeitgeist, making the art form more contemporary and accessible. But is this kind of approach enough to capture the attention…

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review – big and brash staging for Brecht and Weill’s whisky-soaked dystopia

Jamie Manton’s new production for English National Opera is sparky and substantial. Danielle de Niese brings star quality to tarty Jenny, and the chorus are consistently superb

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: A Trumpian 'hellhole' opera

4/5 The ENO bring Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera to the Coliseum as a dystopia for our times

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‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?

Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the hardest job in music

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Where to Buy Kitchen Taps — 10 of the Best Brands to Know for Good Looks and Great Quality

You might not have paid attention to kitchen tap brands before starting your renovation, but getting to know them is the secret to finding the best styles

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UK arts groups offer therapeutic support to performers as they challenge myth of tortured artist

‘You don’t have to be tortured to make great art,’ says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing

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HMS Pinafore review – carry on up the poop deck in ENO’s daffy Gilbert and Sullivan staging

Packed full of physical comedy and double-entendres, Cal McCrystal’s production is brought to vibrant life by a strong cast, with Mel Giedroyc an engagingly anarchic presence

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Partenope review – edgy and erotic Handel update

Nardus Williams is stylish as she is swept up in a maelstrom of passions and longings while pursued by three suitors in a revival of Christopher Alden’s 2008 production

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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

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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

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Ian Judge obituary

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

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Carmen review – big on noise but short on chemistry

ENO’S fourth revival of Calixto Bieito’s classic production starts at an exhilarating gallop but is thrown off course by its ill-fitting translation and onstage clamour

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Cinderella at London Coliseum: 'Hugely enjoyable contemporary spin'

4/5 The ENO have brought the classic story up-to-date while still keeping its heart and soul

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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

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David Rendall obituary

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

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The week in classical: Mary, Queen of Scots; Academy Symphony Orchestra/ Wilson; James MacMillan: Ordo Virtutum – review

ENO’s forces excel in a mere two performances of Thea Musgrave’s turbulent, rarely seen 1977 opera

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Elgar Howarth obituary

Conductor of contemporary opera and and trailblazing force in the tradition-bound world of brass band music

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The Pirates of Penzance review – not modern nor general but major fun in revival of Mike Leigh’s trad staging

Gilbert & Sullivan stalwarts Richard Suart and John Savourin ensure that English National Opera’s staging buckles your swashes; and, as apprentice pirate Frederic, William Morgan is genuinely funny

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The week in classical: The Elixir of Love; Septura; Bone-Afide – review

Donizetti’s sparkling romcom is on a wartime footing in ENO’s sitcom-style new production. And in a great week for brass premieres, enter 22 trombones…

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Five-hour avant garde Philip Glass opera among ENO’s Manchester plans

Programme for company’s move north includes Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, Britten and a new youth company

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The Elixir of Love review – Donizetti’s romcom staged as second world war sitcom is hugely enjoyable

Set among land girls and flying aces Harry Fehr’s new staging is a lot of fun, with Thomas Atkins making a fine ENO debut and Rhian Lois a terrific lady of the manor

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Rigoletto review – Miller’s mafioso take still brings style and insights to Verdi’s masterpiece

Jonathan Miller’s iconic staging for ENO is 40 years old but with Richard Farnes conducting and a striking debut from Robyn Allegra Parton as Gilda, this remains a vibrant and engaging production

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The week in classical: Trouble in Tahiti + A Quiet Place; The Turn of the Screw; Sinfonia of London/Wilson – review

Total commitment carries Bernstein’s uneven suburban double bill; ignore the added subtext and savour ENO’s musically outstanding Turn of the Screw; and Rachmaninov as you’ve never heard him…

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Suor Angelica review – Puccini’s maternal tragedy gets a haunting modern update

A Magdalene laundry in 1960s Ireland is the setting for ENO’s semi-staged production, which conveys quiet anger and deep sadness

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La bohème review – ENO celebrate Puccini centenary with compelling new talent

Jonathan Miller’s 2009 staging opens English National Opera’s season with Nadine Benjamin an affecting Mimì and conductor Clelia Cafiero, making an impressive UK debut

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