ENO Opera Season 2011-2012
See a performance by one of the UK's finest opera companies in a season packed with dazzling productions.
If you'd like to experience opera at its finest, why don't you explore the tantalising list of productions in store at ENO's 2011-2012 season? Imaginative stage directors and the world's greatest performers combine to bring world-class opera to the heart of London. The ENO's belief that opera should be for everyone is also reflected in a range of tickets that will suit most budgets.
Tickets are currently available to buy for the following productions...
The Marriage of Figaro
5 Oct 2011 - 10 Nov 2011
Widely regarded as the greatest comic opera ever written, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro whisks us through the whirlwind events of ‘one crazy day’ (to borrow Beaumarchais’s title for his original play) as Figaro, the Count’s valet, attempts to wed his beloved Susanna, the Countess’s maid, before their philandering master can bed her first.
The Marriage of Figaro opens at the London Coliseum on 5 October 2011 for 10 performances – Oct 5, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26 & Nov 3, 5, 10 at 7pm & Oct 29 at 6pm
To book tickets call 0871 911 0200 or head to the ENO's website.
Eugine Onegin
12 Nov 11 - 3 Dec 11
A deliciously intimate yet devastatingly poignant depiction of unbridled passions and unrequited love, Tchaikovsky’s lyrical masterpiece returns to ENO in a new staging that reunites director Deborah Warner and Music Director Edward Gardner for the first time since their acclaimed collaboration on Britten’s Death in Venice in May 2007.
Eugine Onegin opens at the London Coliseum on 12 November 2011 for 8 performances – Nov 12, 15, 18, 23, 25, 29, at 7pm | Dec 3 at 6pm & Nov 20 at 3pm
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Tosca
26 Nov 11 - Sun 29 Jan 12
A fast-moving story of torture and murder, Puccini’s Tosca is a tense thriller set in Rome at the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Italy. Directed by celebrated American soprano Catherine Malfitano – herself one of the leading Toscas of recent decades.
Tosca opens at the London Coliseum on 26 November 2011 for 8 performances – Nov 26, 28, 30 & Dec 2 & Jan 17, 21, 24 at 7.30pm & Jan 29 at 3pm
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Der Rosenkavalier
28 Jan 12 - 27 Feb 12
A bittersweet blend of young love and mid-life melancholy, Richard Strauss’ charming Viennese comedy returns to the London Coliseum in David McVicar’s delightfully detailed staging, first seen in 2008.
Der Rosenkavalier opens at the London Coliseum on 28 January 2012 for 7 performances – Jan 28 & Feb 1, 17, 24, 27, at 6.30pm & Feb 4, 11 at 5.30pm
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The Death of Klinghoffer
25 Feb 12 - 9 Mar 12
Following highly successful productions of John Adams’s Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, ENO presents the London stage premiere of the American composer’s controversial ‘docu-opera’ about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants.
The Death of Klinghoffer opens at the London Coliseum on 25 February 2012 for 7 performances – Feb 25, 28 & Mar 1, 5, 7, 9 at 7.30pm & Mar 3 at 6.30pm
To book tickets call 0871 911 0200 or head to the ENO's website.
