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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 30, 2018 15:34:01 GMT
Main Stage
New productions
Salome
Porgy and Bess
War Requiem
Merry Widow
Jack the Ripper
Revivals
Lucia
Arknaten
La Boheme - interestingly (and thankfully) the Johnathan Miller production
Magic Flute
Plus
Dido - Unicorn Theatre
Noye’s Fludde - Stratford East
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 30, 2018 15:51:05 GMT
That looks like a fairly well balanced season. Merry Widow can be a joyous thing to behold - with the right production (otherwise it can tend towards the naff)
War Requiem - fully staged? Never thought of it in that way - but why not give it a try. It is a powerful score.
Jack the Ripper - any word on the composer?
And no Verdi...some of my best (and worst) evenings at ENO have been for Verdi operas. The low point being Simon Boccanegra (I think) with lots of chairs. It might have been Sicilian Vespers - but I think it was Boccanegra. I still cherish seeing Forza with Josephine Barstow. Wow what a score.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 30, 2018 15:53:54 GMT
Ah - bit of digging for Ripper - composed by Iain Bell
'Jack the Ripper' at ENO with a cast including Dame Josephine Barstow, Susan Bullock, Lesley Garrett and Alan Opie, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
That maybe makes it possible that La Garrett might be doing Hanna in Widow as well.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 30, 2018 18:07:37 GMT
Requiem is staged by Daniel Kramer. He also directs Jack the Ripper
Hanna Glawari is sung by Sarah Tynan. Good choice if you ask me.
Full details of the season are announced tomorrow
Secret Seats now cost £30. Still an absolute bargain
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 30, 2018 18:09:44 GMT
I don’t know iain bell’s music at all but with that cast I’m going!
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Post by tmesis on Apr 30, 2018 20:51:06 GMT
I'm really pleased they're bringing back the good doctor's Boheme - the critics didn't love it but I thought one of the best.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 21:10:45 GMT
Secret Seats now cost £30. Still an absolute bargain Yes, still a bargain (I ended up in the stalls for both secret seats I booked this year) but a 50% increase in their cheap accessible ticket scheme isn't a great look! |
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 1, 2018 9:17:54 GMT
John Wilson conducting Porgy will be fab
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 1, 2018 10:30:17 GMT
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Post by argon on May 1, 2018 11:12:08 GMT
Their love affair with Mr Glass is a mystery but the new season looks promising particularly looking forward to Salome,porgy & Bess & War Requiem
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Post by tmesis on May 1, 2018 13:30:13 GMT
Excellent news that John Wilson is conducting Porgy and Bess.
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Post by jek on May 1, 2018 13:34:37 GMT
Really excited about Noyes Fludde at Stratford East, my very local theatre. My own kids have loved this piece since Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and the eldest got to perform in a production of it at Trinity Buoy Wharf, also in Newham some years ago. Tickets very cheap too. www.eno.org/whats-on/noyes-fludde/ |
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Post by bordeaux on May 1, 2018 18:02:39 GMT
The Lucia got raves when it was first on but I didn't get to see it. That's the one I'm looking forward to.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 9, 2018 11:42:56 GMT
Secret Seats now cost £30. Still an absolute bargain Yes, still a bargain (I ended up in the stalls for both secret seats I booked this year) but a 50% increase in their cheap accessible ticket scheme isn't a great look! Secret Seats are not available during Friends booking. How unfriendly |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 11:57:17 GMT
Weird! I can see they don't want all the secret seats to go to friends - but they can avoid that by not putting them all on sale surely!
At least you still get priority access to the water jugs.
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Post by jadnoop on May 15, 2018 13:31:54 GMT
I didn't see an announcement, but multi-buy discount tickets went live today. The site says that secret seats aren't available with multi-buy though so presumably they won't show up until the public booking opens.
Pretty excited to see Akhnaten again.
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Post by AddisonMizner on May 20, 2018 7:59:04 GMT
Does Multi-Buy mean that anyone can buy tickets, as long as they are buying tickets for more than one opera?
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Post by argon on May 20, 2018 16:07:46 GMT
Does Multi-Buy mean that anyone can buy tickets, as long as they are buying tickets for more than one opera? Multi-buy went active on the the 15th May, so non members can buy tickets for 2 or more productions from then. |
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Post by AddisonMizner on May 20, 2018 16:22:57 GMT
Thanks for the info. i just wanted to make sure that it was for non-members as well. Will book for SALOME and PORGY AND BESS now.
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Post by jadnoop on May 22, 2018 9:44:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 11:10:42 GMT
Just had a look at booking and one of the two I was interested in (War Requiem) has no weekend performances so inaccessible if you don’t live or work in London. Which is a bit off I think given their huge arts council funding
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 22, 2018 12:44:46 GMT
What no weekend performances? How odd
I tried booking this morning. Crash. No one answering the phone. My email has not had a response yet
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Post by jek on May 22, 2018 12:48:36 GMT
I didn't have a problem booking for Noye's Fludde first thing this morning. But a bit later when I tried to get in to the website to check something the whole system had clearly crashed.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 12:51:14 GMT
They did tweet earlier that booking by mobile was still working when the site wasn’t so that might be worth a try
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Post by sf on May 22, 2018 14:43:45 GMT
I booked for Porgy and Bess without any trouble - but that was at about 1.30, long after the initial rush. Still some secret seats available for every performance when I booked, although that's not what I did (I'm cheap - or rather, I spend more on train fares than on theatre tickets - and the back row of the dress circle in the Coliseum is perfectly OK, and cheaper than the secret seats).
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