Simon McBurney, theatre’s magus-in-chief, should always have been a good fit for Mozart’s phantasmagorical fantasy. Perhaps it was the unusual restrictions and demands of the opera house that stymied ...

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There’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, with Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a dalek-like Queen of the Night For all Mozart’s musical genius, The ...

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Experience a season of heart-stopping, entertaining and spectacular opera this spring with English National Opera. Join us at the beautiful London Coliseum, where ENO performs some of the world's most ...

Rarely has that challenge been taken up with such verve and accomplished with such success as Simon McBurney does in his production of this opera for the ENO. When I first saw this six years ago, I ...

McBurney displays so many wonderfully innovative ideas that the audience, orchestra and singers are all swept along on the energy of his vision. The orchestra, for a start, are lifted out of the usual ...

I know that McBurney’s busy, tricksy take on the mystical pantomime of Mozart’s sublime farewell to the stage did not win blanket approval first time round (not least from my colleague David Nice).

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