Death in Venice

Death in Venice 2013

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At the English National Opera, Deborah Warner has been directing Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, conducted by Edward Gardner.

2013

Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes 1994

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Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

1994

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2013

10.00

Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for Kathleen Ferrier, lies at the hear of David McVicar's powerfully stark production for English National Opera as 'an everyday sort of woman who could be living at any time or place'. Her nemesis is the arrogant Tarquinius of Christopher Maltman, 'who made the air tingle with danger' (Financial Times). Sung in English.

2013

Purcell: The Indian Queen

Purcell: The Indian Queen 2012

9.00

A superb adaptation of Purcell's the Indian Queen, staged and directed by Peter Sellars and performed in 2013 at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Peters Sellars combines John Dryden and Robert Howard's libretto with a short-story written by the Nicaraguan writer Rosario Aguilar, La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies.

2012

HMS Pinafore - English National Opera

HMS Pinafore - English National Opera 2022

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Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera HMS Pinafore is a hilarious tale of love, honour and duty. Packed with absurd characters, unforeseen plot twists and a delightfully farcical finale, Pinafore is a satirical take on the British class system and the promotion of unqualified people to positions of power. When Josephine, the daughter of Captain Corcoran, falls for the lowly sailor Ralph Rackstraw, she’s torn between her heart’s true love, and her desire to honour her father’s wish for her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty.

2022

Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini 2018

8.50

The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably embroiled in conspiracies, intrigues and quarrels, Cellini is commissioned by the Pope to cast a large sculpture of Perseus. He is loved by Teresa, but she is promised to Fieramosca, an academic artist who has not been favoured with a papal commission. Terry Gilliam’s exuberant production draws the protagonists into a delirious and joyful yet claustrophobic and megalomaniac world: a flaring up of contagious madness.

2018

The Damnation of Faust

The Damnation of Faust 2011

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Terry Gilliam, one of the world's most vivid creative minds, brings his unique directorial style to the opera stage for the first time. This vibrant staging of Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, conducted by Edward Gardner, stars Peter Hoare, Christopher Purves and Christine Rice.

2011