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ENO Pre-Performance Talk: Madam Butterfly

May 14, 2012 15:58 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

Christopher Cook and guests explore one of Puccini's greatest works. With opera historian Sarah Lenton, featuring musical performance from soprano Meeta Raval, accompanied by Andrew Smith.

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: The Death of Klinghoffer

March 01, 2012 10:38 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

Librettist Alice Goodman joins Christopher Cook to explore The Death of Klinghoffer. With musical performance from baritone Duncan Rock, accompanied by Ian Ryan.

ENO Talks: John Adams and John Berry on The Death of Klinghoffer

February 28, 2012 18:06 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB

ENO Artistic Director speaks to composer John Adams on ENO's new production of Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer.

ENO Per-Performance Talk: Der Rosenkavalier

February 07, 2012 10:09 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB

Christopher Cook is joined by Music Director Edward Gardner to explore Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. With musical performance from Katherine Broderick and Martin Fitzpatrick.

Der Rosenkavalier - Full Synopsis

January 19, 2012 22:03 - 7 minutes - 6.76 MB

Christoper Cook reads the story of the chevalier of the rose.

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: Tosca 2011-12

January 16, 2012 08:13 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MB

Christopher Cook in conversation with Staff Director Nina Brazier and Staff Director Production Manager Nicholas Sperling with performance from Suzanne Manuell and Nicholas Ansdell-Evans.

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: Eugene Onegin

November 29, 2011 12:50 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB

Christopher Cook is joined by director Deborah Warner and designer Tom Pye. With musical performance from Jonathan Stoughton and Martin Fitzpatrick.

ENO Talks: Edward Gardner and Edward Seckerson on Eugene Onegin

November 09, 2011 16:52 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

ENO Talks: Edward Gardner and Edward Seckerson on Eugene Onegin by English National Opera

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: Castor and Pollux

November 03, 2011 11:48 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Christopher Cook explores Rameau's baroque masterpiece Castor and Pollux with Professor Graham Sadler. Featuring performance by Jassy Husk and Nicholas Ansdell-Evans.

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: The Marriage of Figaro

October 24, 2011 10:34 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB

Christopher Cook explores Mozart's comic masterpiece with director Fiona Shaw.With performance from Elizabeth Llewellyn and Sonia Ben-Santamaria. Performances at the London Coliseum until the 10th November 2011. www.eno.org

Tosca Retold

October 20, 2011 20:47 - 16 minutes - 31 MB

Featuring a script by award-winning children's author and illustrator Sally Gardner (I, Coriander).Her dramatic re-telling of the Puccini opera Tosca has been recorded by actress Emilia Fox (Silent Witness, Merlin).

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: The Passenger

September 27, 2011 10:53 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MB

Christopher Cook in conversation with Associate Director Rob Kearley, repetiteur Sonia Ben-Santamaria and Soprano Susan Young.

ENO Interview: Fiona Shaw and Edward Seckerson on The Marriage of Figaro

September 20, 2011 14:10 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Edward Seckerson talks to Director Fiona Shaw about the challenge of approaching what might be Mozart's most perfect work.

ENO Interview: David Pountney and Ed Seckerson on The Passenger

September 16, 2011 11:56 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

Edward Seckerson explores Mieczyslaw Weinberg's The Passenger with Director David Pountney

ENO Talks: Edward Seckerson with Sarah Tynan

August 10, 2011 18:04 - 24 minutes - 44.7 MB

ENO Talks: Edward Seckerson with Sarah Tynan by English National Opera

ENO Talks: Two Boys

July 05, 2011 21:58 - 39 minutes - 44.8 MB

Christopher Cook talks with Nico Muhly, 59 Productions and Gillian Moore about pulling an opera together.

ENO Interview: Two Boys

June 12, 2011 07:42 - 31 minutes - 35.5 MB

Listen to composer Nico Muhly and librettist Craig Lucas discuss their collaborative process with Edward Seckerson. This track can be downloaded.

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: A Midsummer NIght's Dream

June 03, 2011 16:54 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

Stanley Wells CBE (Shakespeare specialist), Rosie Millard (journalist and broadcaster) and Leo Hussain join Christopher Cook to discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream, with a sung extract by counter-tenor, Iestyn Davies.

ENO Interview: Brindley Sherratt and Edward Seckerson on Simon Boccanegra

May 27, 2011 16:42 - 27 minutes - 31.3 MB

Journalist Edward Seckerson talks with Brindley Sherratt as he prepares for the role of Jacopo Fiesco at ENO.

ENO Pre-Performance Talk: The Damnation Of Faust

May 23, 2011 16:08 - 35 minutes - 40.2 MB

Christopher Cook is joined by Aoife Monks (Lecturer Theatre Studies), David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director), with musical performance by Adrian Powter (cover, Mephistopheles) accompanied by Murray Hipkin (piano).