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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 3, 2019 17:56:31 GMT
A lot of new productions. Even the ones I'm interested in I won't be booking until after they have opened & I've seen the reviews & production pics. I don't trust ENO's taste! Of the revivals, I'll probably see the Miller Mikado again & the casting of Natalya Romaniw might finally persuade me to see the Minghella Butterfly (Sorrow being played by a puppet is offputting). I don't know why they're having another new Nozze production. I think that'll be the third in the last decade or so. Not sure I'll be seeing any of the 4 Orpsheus operas: the directors for the Gluck & the Offenbach make me very wary and even the casting of plenty of singers I like won't get me to go anywhere near either the Birtwistle or the Glass, unless I wear ear plugs!
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Post by vabbian on Apr 4, 2019 4:00:44 GMT
Very interesting to see the one subject matter (Orpheus) being tackled many ways in one season! Would like to get tickets to all four productions just to see what they do.
I too am not really a fan of ENO productions, much prefer traditional stagings and costumes. Not a fan of flying dildos or operas being staged in supermarkets.
And Carmen... Zzzzzzzz
Overrated af
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Post by vabbian on Apr 4, 2019 4:03:52 GMT
The MET and ROH did Carmen this year. (I feel like it's on every year though) and now ENO... Sigh
I think Boheme is the only repertoire opera I wouldn't mind being staged all the time.
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Post by joem on Apr 4, 2019 9:05:18 GMT
A very brave and interesting programme from the ENO. Nice to have a theme and great to have work from living composers. I'll try and see Glass and Birtwistle and as much Orpheus as possible.
Hope they have a good season. They need one.
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Post by vabbian on Apr 13, 2019 8:07:34 GMT
Got tickets for all Orpheus because why not
I will miss these days when I am too old to get young persons discount... *shudder*
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Post by tmesis on Apr 13, 2019 9:05:43 GMT
Got tickets for all Orpheus because why not I will miss these days when I am too old to get young persons discount... *shudder* Yes, the bad news is after the young persons discount stops, you have decades of no discounts at all. The good news is, when you're an old git like me, the senior discounts kick in. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 17, 2019 10:41:04 GMT
And Daniel Kramer has resigned.
I won't miss his productions but ENO is apparently in much better shape now compared to when he started and that has to be celebrated.
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Xanderl
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Not always very high value in terms of ticket yield or donations
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 17, 2019 10:59:51 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 17, 2019 11:52:45 GMT
That's longer than your average UKIP leader or Brexit Secretary |
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Post by londonpostie on Apr 17, 2019 17:05:03 GMT
Perhaps Kelsey Grammer can serenade his leaving party with The Impossible Dream ..
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Post by vabbian on Apr 18, 2019 14:46:39 GMT
Mmmm so for a person who works with the ENO, they are most looking forward to a tour of the building?....
A very strange and patronising bit of marketing,
not to mention how obvious it is that one person wrote all these little paragraphs.
Maybe they think their young patrons are 6 years old
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Post by vabbian on Apr 18, 2019 16:43:14 GMT
Ben Dover, Head of Opera
I am looking forward to reminding the elderly caucasian people to include us in their wills at every opportunity I get!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 18, 2019 21:12:48 GMT
Ben Dover, Head of Opera I am looking forward to reminding the elderly caucasian people to include us in their wills at every opportunity I get! While not attending too often because they don't fit the new audience demographic we need to show we're attracting. |
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