So this is what “a re-imagined artistic and business model” looks like at London’s second opera house, the ENO: a programme featuring the company’s best-loved hits and no Wagner.
La Traviata, Iolanthe and Jonathan Miller’s 1987 production of The Barber of Seville will all feature in next season’s nine operas on the basis, presumably, that you really can’t avoid making money on them. The Ring Cycle now looks more like a semi-circle now that the bit featuring Siegfried has been put on hold. That’s what happens when the Arts Council leaves the company in limbo after slashing its funding.
