ENO 2019/20

[Lizbie1]

To keep us occupied while we await the ROH announcement, here’s the ENO one: https://www.eno.org/whats-on/eno-2019-20-season-launch/

 

Features Wayne MacGregor directing/choreographing Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice.

[RuthE]

The highlight for me will be the new Rusalka - primarily because I know loads of people in it, which should perk up my social life next Spring.  But I have known about it for a long time.

 

I wonder if the four-opera Orpheus season will prove a little tiresome by the end? But having said that, I have never seen a professional production of the Offenbach.  Wonder if I can bring myself to brave the Philip Glass.

 

Natalya Romaniw in Butterfly, and Elizabeth Llewellyn in Luisa Miller are also mouthwatering prospects for me.

[Lizbie1]

Call me conservative but with a limited budget I’ll be skipping the Birtwistle and Glass (I find his operas stupefyingly dull) in favour of the Gluck and Offenbach. I wonder whether they considered the Monteverdi?

 

Other than that, I’ll almost certainly be at Luisa Miller and possibly the Rusalka.

[RuthE]

I'll look forward to the Birtwistle, actually.  I THINK I've seen it before, in a concert at the Royal Festival Hall.  I have seen the Glass before when the ROH did it in the Linbury with a Young Artists cast about 15 years ago, and I remember not hating it... also I know somebody in it so I probably SHOULD go.

 

I've seen two productions of the Monteverdi at ENO since I started attending in the mid-90s.  They haven't done the Gluck since 2001 (the date is emblazoned on my memory as I had a ticket for opening night on September 11th and I remember realizing beforehand that I needed to call my mother and check that she had heard from my uncle!)

[Lizbie1]

8 minutes ago, RuthE said:

I'll look forward to the Birtwistle, actually. 

 

It takes all sorts

[Lynette H]

For Orpheus in the Underworld, the choreographer is given as Ella Murfitt. Do they in fact mean Etta Murfitt (as in Matthew Bourne's New Adventures) ?  I noted the designer was Les Brotherston, so it seemed likely.   I can't seem to find an Ella Murfitt choreographer......

[RuthE]

Probably.  I spotted a number of singers' names misspelled on the season launch page.

[alison]

That's poor - and possibly downright embarrassing.