Which ENO 2019/20 autumn production should you see?

</p> <section> <h2>Which ENO 2019/20 autumn production should you see?</h2> <p> </p> <p>Find out which of our five autumn productions should you see this year…</p> </section> <section> <h2>You should see…Gluck’s <em>Orpheus and Eurydice</em></h2> <p> </p> <p>Willing to go to any lengths to be reunited with his one true love, the gods agree to let the grief-stricken Orpheus rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld. But there’s a catch. To be together again, Orpheus can’t look back at Eurydice, or she will be lost to him forever.</p> <p> </p> <p>See Gluck’s <em>Orpheus and Eurydice</em> at the London Coliseum from 1 Oct – 19 Nov 2019. Find out more at <a href="www.eno.org/eurydice" target="_blank">eno.org/eurydice</a></p> </section> <section> <h3>You should see…Offenbach’s <em>Orpheus in the Underworld</em></h3> <p> </p> <p>Eurydice is fooled into taking Pluto, ruler of the Underworld, as her lover after her new marriage to Orpheus is broken through tragedy.</p> <p>Orpheus must try to win his wife back to him. To achieve the impossible he needs the help of the glamorous, conceited but rather bored gods…</p> <p> </p> <p>See Offenbach’s <em>Orpheus in the Underworld</em> at the London Coliseum from 5 Oct – 28 Nov 2019. Find out more at <a href="www.eno.org/underworld" target="_blank">eno.org/underworld</a></p> </section> <section> <h3>You should see…Birtwistle’s <em>The Mask of Orpheus</em></h3> <p> </p> <p>Harrison Birtwistle’s iconic masterpiece retells the Orpheus myth in a non-linear narrative, as the opera’s leading characters appear in three distinct guises.</p> <p> </p> <p><em>The Mask of Orpheus</em> is scored for massive orchestral forces, which builds into a three dimensional picture that leads us from inconsolable grief to acceptance and transformation.</p> <p> </p> <p>See Birtwistle’s <em>The Mask of Orpheus</em> at the London Coliseum from 18 Oct – 13 Nov 2019. Find out more at <a href="www.eno.org/mask" target="_blank">eno.org/mask</a></p> </section> <section> <h3>You should see…Glass’s <em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);">Orphée</em></h3> <p> </p> <p>Based on Jean Cocteau’s 1950 film, Glass’s opera is a parable about the dangers of self-obsession.</p> <p> </p> <p>Though married to Eurydice, Orphée falls in love with an enigmatic Princess. He then moves between the worlds of the living and the dead becoming obsessed with immortality.</p> <p> </p> <p>You can see Glass’s <em>Orphée</em> at the London Coliseum from 15 Nov – 29 Nov 2019. Find out more <a href="www.eno.org/orphee" target="_blank">eno.org/orphee</a></p> </section> <section> <h3>You should see…Gilbert and Sullivan’s <em>The Mikado</em></h3> <p> </p> <p>Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum but she’s betrothed to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner. When the Mikado orders a beheading, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko try to come to an arrangement that doesn’t involve anyone losing their head!</p> <p> </p> <p>You can see Gilbert and Sullivan’s <em>The Mikado</em> at the London Coliseum from 28 Oct – 30 Nov 2019. Find out more at <a href="www.eno.org/mikado" target="_blank">eno.org/mikado</a></p> </section> <section> <h2>How many times have you been to the opera?</h2> </section> <section> <h3>When you go to the opera you want to…</h3> </section> <section> <h3>The most important thing about an opera is…</h3> </section> <section> <h3>Who will you be bringing along with you?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>At 11pm on a Saturday night, we can find you…</h3> </section> <p> </p> <p>

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