Who hasn’t had a childhood dream of being locked in the British Museum or Natural History Museum overnight? What would happen if the exhibits came to life? Films and fiction…
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Monteverdi’s Poppea: a new production from ETO’s General Director, Robin Norton-Hale
English Touring Opera’s Autumn 2023 season opened at the Hackney Empire on Saturday 30 September 2023. This was the first season under new General Director, Robin Norton-Hale, and the opening…
English Touring Opera begin new era with Robin Norton-Hale at the helm
English Touring Opera’s General Director, Robin Norton-Hale, launches the ETO’s new era with an ambitious season that places innovation and excellence at the heart of the company’s work. Norton-Hale, who assumed leadership…
English Touring Opera’s spring tour sets out on an Italian sojourn
With the familial knots of the guest list for Charles III’s coronation still to be unravelled and the UK still stretching itself on the Brexit-rack, Il viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s…
A dark, sombre Tamerlano from English Touring Opera
The Mongol conqueror, Tamerlane (1336-1405), doesn’t have a good reputation. Also known as Timur, this son of a nomadic shepherd was a masterful military leader and tactician but is most…
Handel’s Ottone opens English Touring Opera’s 2022 Autumn Tour
In his Welcome to English Touring Opera’s 2022 Autumn Tour, James Conway reminds audiences that ‘[w]hen Handel was writing his operas in the 1720s and 30s, it was the only…
The Firebird: new digital opera, co-produced with Little Angel Theatre, coming to ETO at Home
English Touring Opera are delighted to announce a new digital opera for children, The Firebird, in a co-production with Little Angel Theatre. It will premiere on ETO at Home on Wednesday 18th May, before being released to…
English Touring Opera appoints Robin Norton-Hale as new General Director
English Touring Opera is thrilled to announce Robin Norton-Hale as their new General Director. Norton-Hale, who is a multi award-winning writer and director for theatre, opera and film, will take…
The cock crows: English Touring Opera presents Rimsky-Korsakov’s satire on incompetent autocracy
Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1907 fantasy-fable, The Golden Cockerel, brings together folklore and fact, angling Pushkin’s 1834 surreal satire on a Russian autocracy led by Nicholas I towards the Tsarist regime of Nicholas…
ETO at Home: Ferrandini’s Il pianto di Maria
English Touring Opera’s ETO at Home project has seen the company produce a series of films of operas, large scale vocal works, chamber music and song which can be viewed…