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‘A quiet retreat from the rowdy dorms’: 13 time-tested college essentials that will last long past graduation

I asked 13 people about the things they’ve carried from college into adulthood – and found their modern day equivalents

The Guardian - US · Aug 21

‘When I heard it, I nearly fell off my chair’: behind the scenes at Angel’s Bone, ENO’s audacious Manchester debut

After years of upheaval, English National Opera is staging its first new opera in its northern base: the Pulitzer-winning Angel’s Bone, about two angels brutally exploited by human traffickers. We talk to its creators

The Guardian - UK · May 11

‘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…

The Conversation · Mar 13

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 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

Ian Judge obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2025