Fiona Shaw directs Mozart’s opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Marriage of Figaro at London Coliseum King Louis XV1 banned Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro in 1778, finding the attacks on the social order and the mockery of author ...
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Daniel Kramer directs his first opera as ENO’s Artistic Director
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s La Traviata at London Coliseum Verdi looking for something “simple, moving and passionate” decided on Alexandre Dumas’s semi‑ autobiographical La Dame aux Came ...
Lovers to bed, ‘tis almost fairy time
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at London Coliseum In 1662 Samuel Pepys saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the first time and thought it the most insipid ridiculous play he had e ...
Do you believe in fairies? Wait till you see these!
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Iolanthe at London Coliseum After the disappointment of Mike Leigh’s production of H. M. Pinafore for ENO, one of the least funny Pinafores I have seen, my hopes were rais ...