Simon Boccanegra; Rigoletto/ Tristan und Isolde – review

ENO, Coliseum, London; Grange Park Opera, HampshireIs English National Opera trying to do too much? Some desperate ticket offers on current productions suggest life is not easy. Four ambitious new shows in rapid succession might be considered sane in happier economic times or in a different month: January, maybe. Yet to pick the final weeks of the season, when the opera glut is at its peak across the land, when exams are keeping many – parents, teachers, students – at home and when, for one ...

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