Coliseum

Treat yourself this Christmas to Puccini’s operatic masterpiece.

Fiona Shaw’s surprising and entertaining Marriage of Figaro looks a bit Upstairs, Downstairs but musically delivers the goods.

Blockbuster ballet shows plus barely there emerging works

Does Nico Muhly’s new opera describe murder or ‘death by internet’?

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Verdi’s underrated opera.

Film director Terry Gilliam reveals an aptitude for Mephistophelean opera.

A world class staging of one of the greatest operas ever written.

Mike Figgis makes his operatic directorial debut with Donizetti’s seldom performed opera about the notorious Renaissance family.

Everything about English National Opera’s spring/summer season feels shiny and fresh. Six of its eight productions are new, although that is no reason to discount the two revivals. 

It’s not often that the star of an opera is a dog, but it was the appeal of such an unlikely hero that encouraged Simon McBurney, the highly regarded director of Complicite, to make his operatic debut.