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...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to Brian Eno’s “In Dark Trees” while writing my column....
...A work such as Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd stands with one foot in each camp. True to that tradition, Tesori has drawn on musical roots that are many and varied....
...Hampstead Theatre, which has put out a statement about its determination to stay afloat as a producing house supporting adventurous new work despite a 100 per cent funding cut, is currently showing Stephen...
...From his home in the windy far-south of Sweden, Stephen Gill is explaining what he got up to in lockdown....
...and Stephen Fry, pointed out how restrictive English laws are when it comes to rights of way....
...Yotam, Nigella, Fergus, Jancis . . . but then, Brian Eno, Keira Knightley, Mark Ronson . . . Watching “the Rotters” from the outside was remarkable....
...Whether its heroine is sewing military parachutes (as in Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1943 Carmen Jones) or selling her body (Sally Potter’s unloved 2007 production for ENO), the unforgettable melodies and the...
...With ENO’s orchestra making its first appearance in the Grange Park pit this summer as part of a new collaboration, conductor Gianluca Marcianò brought genuine Verdian sweep to an interpretation equally...
...‘Sunset Boulevard’, London Coliseum, April 1-May 7. eno.org Photographs: Camera Press; Rex Features; Alamy...
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...roundaboutsofbritain.com Photograph: Stephen Burke...
...More important, David Charles Abell conducts an expert musical performance, justifying the ENO Orchestra’s place in the spotlight. Not quite a great evening, but it is a close shave. eno.org...
...wig to guide the ENO orchestra, reduced to seven spirited players....
...Sarah Hemming eno.org, 020 7845 9300, March 30-April 12 … Sweeney Todd, Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue, London . . ....
...Allan Clayton’s Cassio is another of his first-rate assignments for ENO. Pamela Helen Stephen’s Emilia, dressed like a stray from an Agatha Christie mystery, is likewise a telling portrayal....
...In his day Michael Chance was an effective Orpheus – remember him in ENO’s “nude” production with Leslie Garrett?...
...Buy: Entertainment One (ENO) Despite rising nearly eightfold over the past five years, Entertainment One’s shares still trade at an attractive price, writes Theron Mohamed....
...written by James Harpur and starring a youthful Stephen Fry, which brought the story of the Oresteia into a contemporary college setting....
...‘Wozzeck’ is at the Coliseum, London, from May 11 to 25 www.eno.org...
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...Pamela Helen Stephen is less interesting in the recitative, but her warm singing blossoms in lyrical passages. They both look emotionally drained by the end....
...‘A Disappearing Number’, Novello Theatre, London, September 10-25; www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk ‘A Dog’s Heart’, ENO, London, November 20-December 4; www.eno.org ‘Shun-kin’, Barbican, London, November 4...
...At that time Terfel was still worrying whether he was “doing things right”; a phase he had surely shaken off by the time he suggested to the Lyric Opera in Chicago the “dark operetta” of Stephen Sondheim...
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...Brian Eno, the musician and producer, has also devised a performance of 12 stories with an original soundtrack, performed last year at the Sydney Opera House in Australia and at this year’s Brighton Festival...
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