It’s about half as many as pre-crisis, but pretty good in strapped circumstances and still more new shows than Vienna or the Met.

The season, just announced, looks strong.

Met-watchers will be please to see that they are sharing a Calixto Bieito Verdi Forza.

Artist Anish Kapoor gets a crack at Tristan.

Norma comes down from the North.

Karen Kamensek, Generalmusikdirektor of Staatsoper Hannover, makes her London conducting debut. Rinat Shaham makes her ENO debut.

And much more.

Read the press summary below.

• ENO’s 2015/16 season includes six new productions and five revivals, with over 60,000 tickets available for £20 or under
• Mark Wigglesworth begins his first season as ENO Music Director, conducting four productions (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Force of Destiny, The Magic Flute and Jenůfa)
• Anish Kapoor designs a new production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, directed by Daniel Kramer with Stuart Skelton andHeidi Melton in the title roles and British bass Matthew Rose as King Mark. Outgoing Music Director, Edward Gardnerconducts
• Director Benedict Andrews returns to ENO to direct a new production of La bohème, starring Corinne Winters in the role of Mimi
• Artistic Director of Improbable, Phelim McDermott directs a new production of Philip Glass’s iconic Akhnaten
• The 2015/16 season opens with a new production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth
• Calixto Bieito returns to the London Coliseum with Verdi’s The Force of Destiny, a major new co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, New York
• Christopher Alden’s critically-acclaimed production of Norma (originally created by Opera North), premieres at ENO withMarjorie Owens taking the title role
• A world-class roster of conductors including Xian Zhang, Stephen Lord, Karen Kamensek, Sir Richard Armstrong and Edward Gardner
• Revivals of audience favourites The Barber of Seville, The Mikado, The Magic Flute, Madam Butterfly and Jenůfa
• A new artistic partnership has been formed between ENO and Streetwise Opera, as part of the Company’s commitment to widening access to our work and working closely with vulnerable adults and community groups
• 88% of singers and conductors at ENO are British, British-trained or resident

The BBC has a business story about the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, which moved its rehearsal rooms to a sink estate on the outskirts of Bremen.

Since then the school’s results have improved, its drop-out rates have fallen to less than 1% and the atmosphere in the wider neighbourhood has been “transformed”.

Read all about it here.

Sad news of the death at 77 of Richard Anthony, one of very few French singers to break into the global market.

In 1962 he scored an international hit with an American ballad, 500 Miles. ‘My mother, who is English, used to sing it to me,’ he explained.

He went on to cover other Anglo hits.

And which other balladeer dared to open a song with a snatch of Smetana’s Moldava?

Opera America is trying to level the playing field.

It has awarded $100,000 to seven women who are trying to get their operas finished and on stage

The recipients of Discovery Grants are Kitty Brazelton for The Art of Memory, Laura Karpman for Balls, Patricia Leonard (pictured) for My Dearest Friend, Jing Jing Luo for Ashima, Odaline de la Martinez for Imoinda, Kamala Sankaram for The Privacy Show, and Su Lian Tan for Lotus Lives.

Although a press release was issued a week ago, no US-based media – either general, music or blog – has reported the grants, according to Google News. What does that tell you about the state of equality in 2015?

Full details here.

Is it only the Pulitzers that make print?