| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 11-Oct-2012 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse at the Linbury Studio Theatre |
 With its small raised platform and steeply seated audience, the Linbury Studio Theatre was an auspicious venue for the English Touring Opera’s production of Peter Maxwell Davies’ chamber opera The Lighthouse (1979). The trelliswork of metal bars encircling the stalls and the bleak lighting effects gave this performance a befittingly industrial air. Truncated by a curved wall, the stage effectively drew spectators into the claustrophobic world of this maritime signal tower as well as its wider aura of isolation.
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| 6-Oct-2012 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | English Touring Opera perform Britten's Albert Herring in London |
 “Community, exclusion, rejection and desire”, writes director Christopher Rolls about English Touring Opera’s production of Albert Herring. “Doesn’t sound like a recipe for an uproarious comedy does it?Read full review... | |
| 5-Oct-2012 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | Brilliant but flawed: English Touring Opera's The Emperor of Atlantis |
 When Emperor Überall decrees an all-pervasive war that will result in the death of his whole population, Death takes umbrage at the fact that his job is being usurped and, in the mother of all demarcation disputes, goes on strike. Death, it turns out, is something of a stickler for procedure, refusing to take away his friend the Harlequin because his name isn’t on the list yet; he and Harlequin coolly observe proceedings as soldiers are unable to kill each other, eventually forcing the Emperor to confront the nature of his regime and of war itself.
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| 9-Mar-2012 Hackney Empire | Eugene Onegin with English Touring Opera |
 Eugene Onegin is one of the greatest of all operas, both musically and dramatically: Tchaikovsky's temperament and compositional proclivities find in the libretto the perfect characters and subject matter such that his particular genius is allowed to flourish and bloom, more fully and voluptuously than he ever managed before or after in the genre of opera.
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