Jonathan Miller, Tom Morris, Rufus Norris, et al. to Set for English National Opera’s 2011-2012 Season

Rufus Norris’s production of Damon Albarn’s new opera Doctor Dee will be part of the 2011-2012 season at English National Opera (ENO), beginning performances on June 25, 2012 at the London Coliseum. As previously reported, the opera will premiere at the Manchester International Festival, running July 1-9.

The piece centers on Doctor John Dee, an astrologer, alchemist, mathematician and spy who served as inspiration for both Marlowe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Prospero.

The ENO season will also include the London premiere of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Tom Morris. It will open at the London Coliseum on February 25. The piece centers on the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking, which was a flashpoint in the Middle East conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Among the new productions in the company’s schedule are Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, to be directed by Fiona Shaw; Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, to be directed by Deborah Warner, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman, to be directed by Richard Jones, and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, to be directed by Jonathan Kent.

The ENO will also persent new productions of Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten and Castor and Pollux by Rameau, and revivals of Jonathan Miller’s The Elixir of Love, Anthony Minghella’s Madam Butterfly, David McVicar’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Catherine Malfitano’s Tosca, as well as the contemporary operas Caligula by Detlev Glanert and Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm.

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