The Coliseum (English National Opera)
The London Coliseum was designed by Frank Matcham for Sir Oswald Stoll with the ambition of being the largest and finest ‘People’s palace of entertainment’ of the age. The building opened to the public in 1904, with a variety act. With 2,359 seats it is the largest theatre in London. It underwent extensive renovations between 2000 and 2004 when an original staircase planned by Frank Matcham was finally put in to his specifications.The theatre changed its name from the London Coliseum to the Coliseum Theatre between 1931 and 1968.
Some the productions put on at the venue include: 'Tosca', 'The Pearl Fishers', 'Idomeneo' and ' Swan Lake' .
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Wozzeck tells the story of a simple soldier, troubled by visions, who murders his unfaithful partner and dies, leaving behind an orphaned child. Berg’s early 20th-century masterpiece comes to ENO for the first time in 25 years.
Puccini’s La Bohème is one of the most popular and captivating operas of all-time. With its emotionally charged story of Mimi and Rodolfo’s fleeting love affair and some of the great Italian composer’s most ravishingly beautiful music, it never fails to move and enchant.
Nacho Duato, the Artistic Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet company, will present his full-length ballet Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness. On 5th and 6th April the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s guest prima ballerina Polina Semionova will appear in this ballet for the first time.
Olivier and Evening Standard award winning dancer, director and choreographer Peter Schaufuss presents the UK Premiere of his acclaimed ballet Midnight Express, an original production based on Billy Hayes’s bestselling 1977 book.
Following the controversial and widely debated Tchaikovsky Triple Bill, Midnight Express is set to dazzle admirers of Peter Schaufuss’s unconventional style but also inspire anyone who identifies with the themes of Billy Hayes’s book.
Midnight Express is performed to a specially conceived and mastered sound track.
