Rupert Christiansen finds ENO's production of Caligula crashingly obvious and unedifying. full story ![]()

Rupert Christiansen enjoys a modern realisation of Berg's Wozzeck.
telegraph.co.uk (12 days ago)

The ENO's production of Rossini's most popular comedy is illuminated by two star performances, says Rupert Christiansen.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 28 days ago)

David McVicar's theatrical production of Medea is surprisingly fun, says Rupert Christiansen.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)

For reasons that are difficult to understand, opera managements in this country have been inordinately slow to stage the masterpieces of the French Baroque repertoire. ENO took the plunge — a mere three decades after Rameau had been rediscovered by William Christie, John Eliot Gardiner and others — with Rameau’s Castor and Pollux in 2011.
standard.co.uk (3 months and 5 days ago)

The show has to go on, but some shows just go on and on and on. Although Jonathan Miller’s staging of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville can’t yet rival The Mousetrap, it has been part of English National Opera’s repertoire for 25 years. All opera companies, ENO more than most, need their go-to productions to boost the box office but might it not be time to put this Barber to...
standard.co.uk (2 months and 28 days ago)
Rupert Christiansen finds ENO's Sunken Garden at the Barbican hard to endure.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 9 days ago)
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has taken another apparent potshot at his predecessor, comparing him with tyrannical Roman Emperor Caligula in an increasingly heated internal dispute over the direction of peace talks with Marxist rebels.
nytimes.com (14 days ago)
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has taken another apparent potshot at his predecessor, comparing him with tyrannical Roman Emperor Caligula in an increasingly heated internal dispute over the direction of peace talks with Marxist rebels.
reuters.com (14 days ago)

Brian Eno famously found the inspiration to craft his 1975 ambient masterpiece, Discreet Music, while bedridden, recovering from injuries sustained after getting hit by a taxi. Now, in a so-fitting-it's-weird twist, English doctors are instructing patients to heal themselves with Brian Eno's restorative music...
spin.com (1 month and 5 days ago)

Wozzeck has not been seen at ENO for 25 years but Carrie Cracknell’s powerful new production of Berg’s masterpiece is a reminder of how well this house can do gritty realism. Tom Scutt’s ingenious split-level set design establishes the location as a saloon bar for modern-day military personnel, with separate rooms above, where more domestic scenes unfold. Wozzeck’s...
standard.co.uk (11 days ago)
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