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Post by AddisonMizner on Apr 13, 2022 17:44:29 GMT
As per their website, the ENO 2022/23 season announcement is tomorrow.
Judging by the clues posted on Twitter (and presuming I have figured them out correctly), it looks like they are definitely doing CARMEN and TOSCA as well as reviving their production of Glass’ AKHNATEN. However, it also looks like they are doing Jake Heggie’s opera based on IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, which for me is the most exciting one so far.
Anyone know of anything else we can expect?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 13, 2022 21:25:59 GMT
More G&S.
They are doing The Yeomen of the Guard in November
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 14, 2022 10:11:47 GMT
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Post by AddisonMizner on Apr 14, 2022 11:20:09 GMT
Well, the full season is now out: www.eno.org/2022-23-season/I have to say it looks very interesting! As I said before, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE definitely appeals, so I will be going to that. They also have Jeanine Tesori's BLUE so I will also be interested in that to see how it compares to her musical theatre work. |
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Post by cartoonman on Apr 14, 2022 13:37:37 GMT
It's a Wonderful Life sounds very interesting. mY U3A group might be interested in a group booking. I'm sorry Porgy and Bess isn't back. I would love to see it again. Still no Secret Seats they were just so good!I get the feeling they won't be coming back.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 14, 2022 18:32:09 GMT
Reading this article makes me think that the chief executive is more interested in ticking every possible box than the actual quality of the opera productions & why do all arts leaders seem completely obsessed with attracting new audiences? Wouldn't trying to retain existing audiences be a good idea too? www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-english-national-opera-boss-on-how-to-run-a-company-celebrity-guests-free-tickets-and-a-ban-on-staff-banter-vvprh3pp8Far too many new productions for me, as I'm extremely reluctant to risk booking new productions because so many modern ones are so ghastly. I may consider Yeomen of the Guard, as I love the piece & the director is usually "safe" (though casting a white tenor as Colonel Fairfax & a black tenor as Leonard Merryl strikes me as a very odd casting decision when the former characters is supposed to be impersonating the latter for much of the piece!).Tosca & Die Tote Stadt I might just about cosider but probably won't end up wanting to see enough to go. Rheingold has quite a decent-looking cast but given the reviews for Walkure goodness knows what the production's going to be like. None of the other offerings appeal in the slightest. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 15, 2022 8:06:22 GMT
Wow. Somw good stuff and I want to see at least 4 productions.
Secret seat is not back - bum, wily, tit! Looks like the multi buy scheme for me.
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Post by tmesis on Apr 15, 2022 10:11:04 GMT
It's a yawn from me.
Only interested in Die Tote Stadt.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 15, 2022 15:29:22 GMT
Some good stuff. Yeoman Of The Guard not my favourite G&S but then I've only seen it done as an am dram production.
The one that really appeals to me is the Philip Glass. Saw one of his works a few months ago and sat there with my mouth open it was mesmerising. So will definitely see this one.
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Post by cartoonman on Apr 16, 2022 9:17:13 GMT
I have decided to try and see It's a Wonderful Life and Akhanaten. With no Secret Seats can anyone advise on the best way to get cheap tickets? I am a friend of the ENO. I have never been to a dress rehersal are they OK?
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Post by tmesis on Apr 16, 2022 15:37:52 GMT
Can't comment on ENO public dress rehearsals cartoonman but I would think they are similar to the ones at ROH to which I have been to around a hundred. Basically they're excellent; the same as a normal performance except the orchestra (and often the conductor) are in jeans and a T shirt. An announcement is sometimes made that singers might be 'marking' their parts but I've always found them giving it full welly. |
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Post by cartoonman on Apr 19, 2022 12:33:57 GMT
Thank you tmesis, I'll give it a try.
Just noticed that the ENO and ROH are both performing Tosca in November. I thought they would have an agreement on that kind of thing.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 21, 2022 9:30:54 GMT
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 14:47:36 GMT
Any mention of who is playing Jack Point in Yeomen - please let it not be a him off t'telly casting.Y eomen does contain some wonderful music and i hope they bring out the darkness. I didn't see ENO's Iolanthe or Pinafore but I sufferred, oh and i did suffer, their Pirates. I was lucky to see the legendary, truly inspired Patience, and the jaw dropping Ida, and of course the gorgeous Mikado.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 27, 2022 19:43:09 GMT
Any mention of who is playing Jack Point in Yeomen - please let it not be a him off t'telly casting. I'm hoping for Simon Butteriss. Failing that then at least a proper singer. If they cast some celebrity "name" then I won't be going. |
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 20:22:42 GMT
And Jo Davies did a brilliant, well thought out Ruddigore for opera North.
Yep, Jack Point - a great character - will he expire at the end I wonder.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 27, 2022 20:22:56 GMT
Butteriss is too old now. Not as old Suart admittedly.
Point should be older than Elsie but not by a generation. The same applies to Shadbolt and Phoebe. They must be of a similar sort of age.
I struggled to find out exactly how old Simon Butteriss is... But I did track down that he played The Winslow Boy in the West End in 1971. So my guess is that he is now early 60s. Which is too old for Point amongst the rest of that cast.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 27, 2022 21:57:34 GMT
I saw him do the role in semi-staged concerts in 2012 & 2017 and didn't think he seemed too old for the role even in the latter performance. I was sitting front row stalls both years so it wasn't just distance lending enchantment/credibility. So unless he's visibly aged a lot in the last 5 years, I'd be happy with him in the role for ENO, where he'd also have the aid of wigs, make-up & the distance of the Coli's orchestra pit!
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 22:00:36 GMT
and on the back of the sky arts/ENO Anyone can sing series, my video recorder whirred into action for the ENO Pinafore tonight. I missed tha it was screening, but oh what joy, lost of fun business, movement, great design and the opening o Act two, a supplementary piee but very in keeping, made me giddy with pleasure - four times on the go. I think that was the performance the 'anyone Can sing' singers did their bit and i was hoping that section would be included, but it looked as if it would have gone past the two hour mark. But a rather gorgeous evening - thank you ENO and Sky arts. (all this and sewing bee - certainly brightened up a fraught day)
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 27, 2022 22:38:38 GMT
I saw him do the role in semi-staged concerts in 2012 & 2017 and didn't think he seemed too old for the role even in the latter performance. I was sitting front row stalls both years so it wasn't just distance lending enchantment/credibility. So unless he's visibly aged a lot in the last 5 years, I'd be happy with him in the role for ENO, where he'd also have the aid of wigs, make-up & the distance of the Coli's orchestra pit! He is a great interpreter of the patter roles. He knows them inside out and fully respects the traditions. But I don't think they will have cast him. There would have been no reason not to announce someone like him alongside the season launch. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 28, 2022 13:24:54 GMT
But I don't think they will have cast him. There would have been no reason not to announce someone like him alongside the season launch. That's what makes me fear that they may cast some "celebrity".
I couldn't watch HMS Pinafore last night but hope to catch up on it at some point.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 28, 2022 16:39:01 GMT
What's the name of the singer who did all the patter roles with D'oyly Carte years ago?
I had a whole series of LP's of the G&S operas and he was on them all.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 28, 2022 17:30:55 GMT
Depends which era...
Martyn Green
John Reed
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Post by crabtree on Apr 28, 2022 19:15:38 GMT
Pinafore is repeated on saturday at noon on sky Arts, and on sunday. Look hard as it is under the 'anyone can sing' series title.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 28, 2022 21:48:33 GMT
Depends which era... Martyn Green John Reed [br John Reed. Thanks |
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