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Does UK opera have a future to sing about?

Nestled deep in the Sussex countryside, Glyndebourne has been attracting opera fans for almost a century. This year, its flagship summer festival coincides with a celebration of the company’s 90th anniversary. This is no small feat, given the harsh economic climate and challenges UK opera companies face to keep the…

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Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

An ex-ENO artistic head and the co-director who staged War Horse working on a contemporary opera about drug addiction crisis

The Guardian - UK

Meet Lee Bradshaw: the opera composer inspired by Iron Maiden

Last month, the world’s first grand opera in Arabic was shown in London. Here the Australian composer explains how he took a modern approach to the work

Evening Standard

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The Guardian view on opera and circus: a populist pairing that scales the heights

Editorial: Featuring awe-inspiring aerial antics, Welsh National Opera’s Death In Venice shows how innovative the art form can still be

The Guardian - UK

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle review – erotic, unsettling and beautifully staged

A last-minute cast substitution added a remarkable gender twist to Bartók’s opera about marital disintegration

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Magic Flute; Manon Lescaut review – the trials of love

The anarchy and invention of Simon McBurney’s Mozart production triumphs as ENO plays on; Puccini gets a rough ride at English Touring Opera. Plus, the pros and cons of Radio 3’s new schedule

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review

A day in the life of the father of communism is full of laughs in Scottish Opera’s new production of Jonathan Dove’s buoyant farce. Elsewhere, notable house debuts at ENO, a Bruckner double bill and Rachmaninov to remember

The Guardian - UK

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English National Opera musicians call off strike action after agreement reached

ENO will now revise plans that triggered dispute, after negotiations with Musicians’ Union

The Guardian - UK

The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance

While it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonality

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera strike suspended as interim settlement agreed

Equity union says 1 February action over job cuts has been called off and it expects a full resolution soon

The Guardian - UK

‘A hell of a lot of talent’: meet the art and design graduates tipped as rising stars

A textile artist working in film and TV, an interior designer who specialises in ‘reuse’, and the creator of a ‘sound shrine’ are on the road to success, according to tutors at the Royal College of Art

The Guardian - UK

ENO strike: staff say they are political ‘pawns’ and fear being forced out

Musicians say many feel they have no choice but to act over cuts and may have to leave industry altogether

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera employees to strike over cuts

Underfunding of Manchester move blamed as Musicians’ Union announces first full strike in 44 years

The Guardian - UK

Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2023

Two tragic new operas, Mussorgsky with bells on and rousing community endeavours inspired and moved, while ENO hit highs despite a year of turmoil

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The Guardian - UK

English National Opera members to vote on strike action over pay dispute

Equity union says chorus members will vote in early January on whether to act over plans to cut salaries by 40%

The Guardian - UK

Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review

Amid the funding woes there were still bright spots this year, from Bach to Byrd, and the Rite to Rachmaninov, while the streaming world continued to evolve and expand

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci; OAE/ Suzuki: Christmas Oratorio; The Sixteen: Messiah – review

Hot-blooded double bill Cav and Pag hits home in a fine Royal Opera revival, while the OAE and the Sixteen thrill in seasonal Bach and Handel. Plus, the human cost of ENO’s move to Manchester

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English National Opera announces Manchester as its new home

Opera company was told by Arts Council England last year that it would lose its £12m of its funding unless it moved out of London

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The Guardian - UK

‘This could be really interesting’: Manchester and English National Opera may yet suit each other

London’s loss will be Manchester’s gain as the opera company announces it is to create a base in the thriving cultural centre

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera announces Greater Manchester will be its new home

The company, which had a shortlist of five cities, had been told funding was dependent on leaving London

The Guardian - UK

Keel Watson obituary

Versatile opera singer who could move effortlessly between Wagner and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on touring opera: thwarted in its mission to bring music to the people

Editorial: It would be a tragedy if funding cuts reinforced the myth that a varied and vital art form is simply a pastime for the metropolitan elite

Evening Standard

Marina Abramović 7 Deaths of Maria Callas at ENO review: funerary offering and personal exorcism

The artist has been obsessed with the singer since girlhood, this is her homage

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: La rondine; La traviata review – rapture and raw power

Puccini’s flighty swallow soars in James Hurley’s gorgeous new production for Opera North. And Nicole Chevalier is devastating as the doomed Violetta in ENO’s impassioned revival of no-frills Verdi

The Guardian - UK

La Traviata review – radical revival powered by outstanding performers

Painstakingly restored by Ruth Knight for ENO, Peter Konwitschny’s production pares the Verdi opera down to its absolute essence

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