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Lightning sometimes strikes twice. English Touring Opera hit topical gold last spring when, wholly by coincidence, they found themselves touring with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian anti-war satire The Golden Cockerel. Now the company’s general director Robin Norton-Hale insists that their current tour of Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims – written in 1825 to celebrate the coronation of
Two of the world’s best-loved operas by Handel and Rossini are being recreated for a new audience.
An outstanding take on a gorgeous but sinister work. Opera review by Boyd Tonkin
In the light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, English Touring Opera's enjoyable staging of Tamerlano has a bracing topicality
Fresh musical values transcend diffuse direction as ETO takes Bach's sacred drama on the road. Classical music review by Richard Bratby