The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (7th February – 10th March 2015)
ENO Music Director Edward Gardner will lead the outstanding ENO Chorus and Orchestra alongside an exceptional cast in these performances of Wagner’s epic masterpiece.
In a spectacular staging by director Richard Jones, Wagner’s only comic opera explores the tension between artistic creativity and conformity as it is played out in a society obsessed by rules and regulations.
From the ever-popular overture’s magisterial opening bars, Wagner’s score is full of glorious melodies and stirring choruses, revealing the composer at the height of his musical and dramatic powers.
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg opens on the 7th February for 8 performances. Tickets are available at eno.org / 020 7845 9300
The Indian Queen (26th February – 14th March 2015)
ENO’s director in residence Peter Sellars presents a newly contextualised version of Purcell’s The Indian Queen, which describes the first contact between Europeans and the Mayans of the New World from the perspective of the women who forged a new society.
Sellars takes Purcell’s glorious but incomplete score and incorporates some of the composer’s most ravishing sacred and secular pieces, adding vibrant set designs from graffiti artist Gronk and a text based on Nicaraguan author Rosario Aguilar’s novel The Lost Chronicles of Terra Firma.
The result is an astonishing spectacle of music, theatre, dance, literature and visual art that promises both an exceptional musical and theatrical experience.
The Indian Queen opens on the 26th February for 8 performances. Tickets are available at eno.org / 020 7845 9300
Between Worlds (11th April – 25th April 2015)
This groundbreaking world premiere, performed at the Barbican, is a sensitive, spiritual and uplifting journey inspired by the events of 9/11. The highly anticipated first opera from British composer Tansy Davies, Between Worlds will be directed by critically acclaimed opera and theatre director Deborah Warner,
A disparate group of individuals is trapped high up in one of the Twin Towers, caught between earth and heaven, between life and death.Between Worlds will provide a unique insight to the tragedy and the human experiences of those affected by it.
Between Worlds opens at the Barbican on the 11th April for 8 performances. Tickets are available at eno.org / 020 7845 9300
The Pirates of Penzance (9th May – 27th June 2015)
Fresh from the major success of his celebrated film Mr Turner, film-making legend Mike Leigh will make his opera directing debut with this eagerly anticipated new production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s sparkling comic masterpiece.
In a hilarious production where comedy and romance combine with surprising twists and turns, The Pirates of Penzance leads us into a swashbuckling world of orphaned pirates, flat-footed policemen and beautiful women.
The Pirates of Penzance opens on the 9th May for 14 performances. Broadcast as part of ENO Screen on 19th May. Tickets are available at eno.org / 020 7845 9300