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English National Opera’s Orpheus cycle continues with Offenbach’s operetta

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Orpheus in the Underworld at London Coliseum The first great full-length classical French operetta was Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and it premiered in Pa ...

markbendle 156 views 0 likes Oct 8, 2019

ENO this season is reimagining four operas exploring the myth of Orpheus

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Orpheus and Eurydice at London Coliseum Orpheus, the number one poet, who could entertain wild beats with his singing and lyre playing and cause rocks and trees to dance, ...

markbendle 148 views 0 likes Oct 3, 2019

Where is Jack the Ripper?

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel at London Coliseum. Jack the Ripper was active in and around the slums of Whitechapel in 1888. He got his nickname because of the ...

markbendle 547 views 0 likes Apr 4, 2019

“Women! Who can tell what the hell women are?”

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Merry Widow at London Coliseum Franz Lehár’s operetta was an enormous success at its premiere in Vienna in 1905 and its success was repeated in 1907 in London, New Yor ...

markbendle 555 views 0 likes Mar 5, 2019