This is My Bed: English Touring Opera
An opera about bedtimes, bears and dreams. And a bed with a mind of its own! There’s one thing about your bed. It’s your very own bed. Except somebody else…
A welcome return: Monteverdi’s Ulysses’ Homecoming, English Touring Opera
Saffron Hall, East Anglia’s brightest new star venue on the classical music horizon, is moving with confidence into direct competition with Snape Maltings. Their first fully staged opera, English Touring Opera’s…
Kill or be killed: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, ETO
English Touring Opera gives Gluck’s reformist masterpiece a suitably blood-spattered outing in a production which keeps the opera in touch with its classical roots. Gluck’s reform agenda stands out proudly: his…
Something old, something new: Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei, English Touring Opera
Pia de’ Tolomei premiered in Venice in February 1837 and, unbelievably, reached London in March 2016 – last week – a mere 179 years later. With laudable courage, English Touring…
Truly, madly, but not quite deeply enough: Massenet’s Werther from English Touring Opera
Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther pitted religion against Romanticism in a battle royal for the soul of young Germany, which Romanticism won: Werther became a cult hero, even a fashion…
Simple and emotive: English Touring Opera’s La bohème at Hackney Empire
Puccini’s great crowd-pleaser La bohème is more than familiar to audiences all over the world, but this tale of poverty-stricken love and death remains a compelling watch, whether you are…
Strong and stylish: Handel’s Ottone by English Touring Opera
Ottone was a great success for Handel in his lifetime, and the ravishing beauty of its music and exciting, dynamic plot shows us why. The consistently high production values of…
Just Look Back in Anger: Tippett’s King Priam
English Touring Opera take Tippett’s powerful pacifist retelling of Homer’s Iliad on tour in a strong, beautifully designed production, directed by James Conway, which will leave hearts and minds in turmoil. In…
Mummy always knows best: Handel’s Agrippina, by English Touring Opera
This joyous production by English Touring Opera makes the most of the music, the characters, and the alternately hilarious and unsettling plot of Handel’s early masterpiece. Agrippina is an opera of…