{"id":4312,"date":"2018-05-01T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2018-05-01T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:47:58","slug":"english-national-opera-announces-201819-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"English National Opera announces 2018\/19 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ENO\u2019s 2018\/19 season features\u00a0<strong>five new productions\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>four revivals\u00a0<\/strong>at the London Coliseum, as well as a gala performance celebrating 50 years of opera in residence at the London Coliseum and collaborations with the\u00a0<strong>Unicorn Theatre<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Theatre Royal Stratford Eas<\/span>t<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ENO\u2019s 2018\/19 season is the first curated by Artistic Director\u00a0<strong>Daniel Kramer<\/strong>\u00a0and Music Director\u00a0<strong>Martyn Brabbins<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_4315\" style=\"width: 3773px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Martyn-Brabbins-c-Benjamin-Ealovega.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4315\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Martyn-Brabbins-c-Benjamin-Ealovega.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3763\" height=\"5644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Martyn-Brabbins-c-Benjamin-Ealovega.jpg 3763w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Martyn-Brabbins-c-Benjamin-Ealovega-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Martyn-Brabbins-c-Benjamin-Ealovega-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Martyn-Brabbins-c-Benjamin-Ealovega-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3763px) 100vw, 3763px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ENO 30 March 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Director\u00a0<strong>Adena Jacobs<\/strong>\u00a0opens the season with her UK debut, a bold and radical feminine interpretation of\u00a0<em>Salome<\/em>\u00a0conducted by\u00a0<strong>Martyn Brabbins<\/strong>\u00a0and starring<strong>Allison Cook<\/strong>\u00a0in the title role<\/li>\n<li>ENO will perform\u00a0<em>Porgy and Bess\u00a0<\/em>for the first time in the company\u2019s history, conducted by\u00a0<strong>John Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0in his ENO debut with a cast featuring\u00a0<strong>Eric Greene<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Nicole Cabell<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Latonia Moore<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Nadine Benjamin<\/strong>\u00a0alongside an ensemble of 40 singers<\/li>\n<li>ENO\u2019s Olivier Award-winning Chorus will be joined by the ensemble from\u00a0<em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>\u00a0to present Benjamin Britten\u2019s\u00a0<em>War Requiem<\/em>, conducted by\u00a0<strong>Martyn Brabbins<\/strong>, directed by\u00a0<strong>Daniel Krame<\/strong>r and designed by Turner Prize-winning photographer\u00a0<strong>Wolfgang Tillmans<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Associate Director at the Old Vic\u00a0<strong>Max Webster<\/strong>\u00a0will direct\u00a0<em>The Merry Widow\u00a0<\/em>with a cast of ENO favourites including\u00a0<strong>Sarah Tynan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Andrew Shore<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Rhian Lois<\/strong>joined by baritone\u00a0<strong>Nathan Gunn<\/strong>\u00a0and conducted by\u00a0<strong>Kristiina Poska<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ENO will present the world premiere of\u00a0<strong>Iain Bell\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Emma Jenkins\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel\u00a0<\/em>with central female roles created by some of the UK\u2019s most esteemed singers, including\u00a0<strong>Dame Josephine Barstow<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Susan Bullock<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Janis Kelly<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lesley Garrett<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Marie McLaughlin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Opera for All: 50 Years of Opera at the London Coliseum<\/em>\u00a0will be a special evening of performances celebrating moments from operas that have played an important part in ENO\u2019s history, performed by stars from ENO\u2019s past and present<\/li>\n<li>The season\u2019s revivals comprise\u00a0<strong>David Alden\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0striking\u00a0<em>Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em>,\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Miller\u2019<\/strong>s much-loved\u00a0<em>La boh<\/em><em>\u00e8<\/em><em>me,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Phelim McDermott\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Olivier Award-winning\u00a0<em>Akhnaten\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<strong>Simon McBurney\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0standing-room only production of\u00a0<em><em>The Magic Flute<\/em><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4252\" height=\"2835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith.jpg 4252w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/7-Akhnaten-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4252px) 100vw, 4252px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ENO will collaborate with the Unicorn Theatre in May 2019 to present 19 performances of\u00a0<em>Dido<\/em>, inspired by Purcell\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dido and Aeneas<\/em>, in a production directed by<strong>Purni Morell,\u00a0<\/strong>conducted by ENO Mackerras Conducting Fellow\u00a0<strong>Valentina Peleggi<\/strong>\u00a0and specially aimed at teenage audiences<\/li>\n<li>In July 2019 ENO will collaborate for the first time with Theatre Royal Stratford East to present\u00a0<em>Noye\u2019s Fludde<\/em>, directed by\u00a0<strong>Lyndsey Turner<\/strong>\u00a0and bringing together professional performers, children and community groups from across Newham with participants from our ENO Baylis programme<\/li>\n<li>More than 42,500 tickets are available at \u00a320 or less across the 2018\/19 season, increased from 39,500 last season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENO\u2019s 2018\/19 season features\u00a0five new productions\u00a0and\u00a0four revivals\u00a0at the London Coliseum, as well as a gala performance celebrating 50 years of opera in residence at the London Coliseum and collaborations with the\u00a0Unicorn Theatre\u00a0and\u00a0Theatre Royal Stratford East ENO\u2019s 2018\/19 season is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4312\">Continue reading <span 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