The Latest Breaking News from English National Opera

Arts Council England says it will stop funding the ENO unless it moves north

The English National Opera is a strange beast. On one level, it is the second opera house to glitzy Covent Garden, where the musical cognoscenti, wealthy, and government ministers hover to ensure a credible mix of high culture and intentions in (a few) cheap seats. English National Opera has more…

Singer Bryn Terfel starts petition after arts council removes English National Opera’s funding unless it moves

The decision to produce fewer operas at English National Opera sowed the seeds of last week’s disaster – which strips London of an irreplaceable cultural jewel, writes the company’s former musical director

Questions about the politics of support for the arts have always been fraught and the recent announcement about Arts Council England’s latest funding round is no exception. At the heart of the current controversy is the movement of millions of pounds away from key London organisations to the regions. This…

ENO head says plan to force it to move out of capital is unworkable and ‘absurd’

Arts Council to scrap annual £12.8m grant if ENO does not comply with government levelling up agenda

RIGHT now, London has two opera houses. (Berlin has three.) There’s the Royal Opera, the grand one, in Covent Garden, and, in the West End, you can see English National Opera a mile off, under the sparkly orb of the London Coliseum. They’re different. The Royal Opera attracts singers you’d…

The prestigious national institution said it was considering moving its headquarters to the city