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Dateline: 26th February, 2009
Ellen Kent Changes Direction The end of the summer will see the end of Ellen Kent's national tours of opera and ballet from Eastern European countries. The biggest supplier of opera (for seventeen years) and ballet (for ten) in the UK and Ireland, she has decided to and take her next big step in life to coincide with her 60th birthday in April. She is going to carry on exploring her passion for producing arena productions, something she has always wanted to do and feels this is the time to do it. In 2008 she launched her new company, Ellen Kent & Amphitheatre Productions, at Leeds Castle in Kent, with an arena production of Carmen to an audience of 6000. After that success, she has decided to rest her opera and ballet titles and move on to large scale, exciting arena projects both in Britain and abroad. Since 1983 Ellen Kent has achieved huge success with her theatre productions and launched into opera in 1993. She was awarded twelve separate BSIS (Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme) awards from 1987- 1996, a large sponsorship grant for the tour of the Romanian National Opera in 1996, won awards in two consecutive years from SFX (now Live Nation) for breaking all opera box office records in the history of the Manchester Opera House, and was one of the first businesses to gain a grant from the National Lottery. Her first opera was Nabucco staged to an audience of 7000 at Rochester Castle. Personally she has been nominated twice as European Women of the Year, been awarded a medal from the President of Moldova for 'The best contribution to the arts in Moldova' and received the Medal of Honour and Golden Fortune awards from the President of Ukraine.
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