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Dateline: 4th June, 2004
New Programming at ENO English National Opera announces the new Sky & Artsworld 2005 Season January to June and updates autumn 2004. The range of productions in this period demonstrates the strength of the ENO ensemble and ethos. Embracing the great works of the operatic canon, re-interpreting cornerstones of the repertory, supplementing the lighter repertory with a new operetta, evolving ENO's new tradition of staging the most dramatic oratorios and choral works, and broadening the repertory by introducing gems of music theatre to the Coliseum stage, the Season fulfils the Company's aim to offer diversity of the highest quality opera and music theatre. ENO Music Director Paul Daniel and director Phyllida Lloyd continue their provocative interpretation of Wagner's Ring with Siegfried in autumn '04 and Twilight of the Gods in Spring '05. As previously announced, a new Gilbert and Sullivan operetta joins ENO's repertory, with Elijah Moshinsky returning to mount The Pirates of Penzance. ENO honours Sir Michael Tippett and welcomes director Jonathan Kent to ENO for the first time to stage the oratorio A Child of Our Time just days after the composer's 100th birthday. Continuing the Company's innovative stagings of oratorios and choral works begun with Bach's St John Passion in April 2000, Katie Mitchell makes her ENO directing début with Handel's Jephtha, a co-production with Welsh National Opera. Mozart's late work La Clememza di Tito comes to ENO for the first time in a new production by DavidMcVicar, which re-unites him with former ENO Company Principal Sarah Connolly as Sesto. Bernstein's great symphonic musical score On the Town, libretto by Comden and Green, is brought to exuberant life in a new production by director Jude Kelly and Stephen Mear, an exciting first for ENO's orchestra and chorus, alongside a cast of specialist musical artists; the first time this show has ever been performed on the stage of the London Coliseum. ENO's Olivier award-winning production of Berlioz's The Trojans launches autumn 2004, staged complete by Richard Jones in one evening as the composer intended. ENO Calendar of First Nights : 24 September 2004 – 25 June 2005
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