The Latest Breaking News from ENO

ENO’s It’s a Wonderful Life star Danielle de Niese: ‘We need opera, we can’t just do Instagram and Tiktok’

The soprano on starring in an opera adaptation of the much-loved film, being at the ENO when its funding was cut and what it feels like on stage when audiences boo

Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2022

The ENO is in a mess, but moving to Manchester won’t solve its problems

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…

Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2022

Cuts to funding will decimate English National Opera. This is a howling mistake

The arguments given by Arts Council England ignore all the good work we do – it should think again, says ENO chief executive Stuart Murphy

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022

The week in classical: The Yeomen of the Guard; Alcina – music under siege

ENO stands firm amid extreme funding cuts with a Gilbert and Sullivan staging full of vim and vigour, while animal magic ripples through Richard Jones’s new Alcina

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2022

Slashing English National Opera’s funding is cultural vandalism

Letters: Withdrawing state subsidy and moving the company to Manchester will destroy it, writes John Nickson. Plus letters from Tony Lamb, Elspeth Knights and Joanne Columbine

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

Arts Council England funding cuts: London’s institutions fight back after the big betrayal

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

Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2022

ENO mounts fightback against edict to leave London

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2022

Defunding ENO is devastating – but the writing was on the wall

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2022

English National Opera fights ‘insane’ move from London to Manchester

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

Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2022

English National Opera’s funding to be cut to zero unless it moves from London

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2022