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The English National Opera (ENO) announced its 2022/23 season today with a combination of old classics, revivals, new productions, and new operas to draw both hardened aficionados and first time opera goers to the London Coliseum.
Kicking off the season is Christof Loy’s production of Puccini’s Tosca which will make its UK debut in late September. Sinéad Campbell-Wallace will play the eponymous role and Adam Smith will play her lover Cavaradossi. Following the success of HMS Pinafore, which was part of the opera company’s 2021/22 season, the ENO will stage another Gilbert & Sullivan production. This time it’s The Yeomen of the Guard, produced for the company’s history and directed by Jo Davies.
An operatic adaption of classic film It’s a Wonderful Life also receives its UK premiere over the festival period. Jake Heggie’s opera will be conducted by Nicole Paiement, with Danielle de Niese making her ENO operatic debut.
The season will include two revivals. Calixto Bieito’s Carmen will return in February. First staged at the Coliseum in 2012, it will be conducted by Kerem Hasan, who conducted last season’s revival of Così fan tutte. In addition, Phelim McDermott’s rendition of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten will be revived in March. Part of Glass’s “portrait” operas that explore the lives of important historical figures, last season saw McDermott’s revival of Satyagraha, a mesmerising meditation on the life of Gandhi and his political philosophy. Akhnaten delves into the life of the titular pharaoh who is credited with the birth of monotheism. Anthony Roth Costanzo, who performed as part of The Met Opera’s 2021/22 season, will reprise his role as Akhnaten.
Director Richard Jones continues his Ring Cycle with The Rhinegold, the first of the four of Wagner’s epic operas. The Rhinegold sets Wagner’s epic saga of gods, monsters, and magic rings in motion. Following The Handmaid’s Tale, Annilese Miskimmon directs her second production as artistic director of the ENO, Korngold’s The Dead City. It will star Allison Oakes and Rolf Romei in their debuts for the ENO.
Finally Blue, Jeanine Tesori’s contemporary opera about police brutality against African American communities, will also receive its UK premiere. The opera will be directed by Tinuke Craig, whose version of Hamlet has completed a run at the Dorfman stage at the National Theatre. She will be making her operatic directorial debut.
Tickets for the English National Opera’s 2022/23 season go on sale to the general public from 24 May.
Words by Alexander Cohen
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