The Latest Breaking News from ENO

Chief executive hits back in row over future of opera and call for shows to be held away from grand venues

Funding shake-ups have come as a shock, but offer the art form an opportunity to find a new direction and new audiences, says Darren Henley of Arts Council England

The rug has been pulled out from many of the capital’s arts organisations, but they’re not going to take it lying down

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

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

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday, November 7, 2022.

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…