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ENO presents Handel’s greatest oratorio live within the spectacular setting of the London Coliseum with a new staging by award-winning director Deborah Warner ( St John Passio n and Death in Venice at ENO). Combining the talents of principals John...

classical and opera The most sumptuous symphonic sounds this Christmas, chosen by our classical critic Based on Finnish myth … Swanhunter. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Messiah ENO promises a "powerful new relevance" will be brought to Handel's ageless oratorio.

Dress Circle (tickets usually priced up to £87) Limited availability; not available retrospectively or in conjunction with any other offer...Only available online. Podcast Edward Seckerson talks to Duke Bluebeard's Castle director Daniel Kramer, The Rite of Spring director/choregrapher...

Lisa Saffer and friend in Richard Jones's 2002 production of Lulu at the Coliseum. Photograph by Tristram Kenton Inside the brand name of English National Opera there lurks an oxymoron that sabotages the whole staunchly patriotic enterprise.

Hallowe'en is about to arrive early in the opera world: next week English National Opera opens its revival of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, a taut and terrifying masterpiece based on Henry James's enigmatic ghost story. A governess...

A notice above the proscenium advertises the website ( www.eno.org/eno_interactive ). Judging by the company’s latest production of Turandot , there must be a similar sign above the stage door: this one reads “write your own script”. Dramatic licence has...

Anyone thinking of ordering Chinese takeaway some time soon might consider doing so before seeing Rupert Goold's audacious new staging of Puccini's Turandot. Visits to one's local Red Dragon might never be the same again. Imagine an episode of Gordon...

Despite the show's success, she's keen to make changes before we transfer to the Noel Coward theatre in January. I say I'll see what I can do, but right now I have to further correct the final act of my...

Did you know?" boasts ENO in a bulletin about Turandot, "English National Opera bought all the gold silk of its type available in the UK... for use on the set". It's a slightly odd Come Dancing approach to the marketing...