| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 8-Mar-2013 Hackney Empire | James Conway's updated Simon Boccanegra with ETO at Hackney Empire |
 English Touring Opera’s Verdi title for their Spring season in this composer’s (and Wagner’s) anniversary year is one of no small ambition. Premièred to only modest success in Venice in 1857, it would take Verdi another 20 or so years to return to Simon Boccanegra to try to fix the old “wobbly table” (as he and his librettist, Boito, later dubbed the 1857 version). Launched in a thoroughly revised version at La Scala, Milan in 1881, the work remained relatively unpopular with audiences for many years.Read full review... | |
| 27-Nov-2012 Royal College of Music: Britten Theatre | Monteverdi in Muscovy: The Coronation of Poppea at the RCM |
 “I apologise to those who anticipated togas, or 17th-century Venice”, writes James Conway in the programme notes to his production of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, currently running at the Royal College of Music’s Britten Theatre in London. The translation of the opera’s story of power and lust from its original Roman setting to Stalin’s Russia was what attracted me to the production in the first place.Read full review... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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