Breaking: ENO cancels Traviata. Gas is blamed
mainTonight’s performance of La traviata at English National Opera was cancelled an hour before curtain.
The audience was told there was risk of a gas leak.
The show, directed by ENO’s artistic director Daniel Kramer, has received the worst reviews of any mainstream opera in years.
Tout va bien, alors!
Laughing gas?
Moscow attacks again ?
Well, just like gaz, Violetta is ‘volatile’ . . . .
It’s true. There was a massive gas leak last week, and there’s is now a big hole in St Martin’s Lane.
There are two massive holes on St Martin’s Lane.
Let’s not go there.
In this extraordinary timpepiece of an interview Muti declares his lack of sympathy for the ethos of English National Opera in no uncertain terms: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rGwZIsjVQmU
On account of excellent musical education from formative years, the U.K was a world leader in Classical Music at this point in time.
That was the era in which London orchestras earned large amounts of money from recordings, which meant they needed very little funding from either donations from the rich or public subsidy to be “world class”. Weren’t we lucky.
So has the ENO made another disastrous appointment?
I wonder what the soprano ate that caused the gas problem?