I've just spotted this tucked away in Andrew Clement's review of the year. I'm not sure where the information is coming from but it seems to disclose a version of what the ENO offer to London And Manchester will be:
"Uncertainty over the future of ACE’s most prominent victim, English National Opera, continued. The year ends with the company shorn of its music director, Martyn Brabbins, who resigned when plans to reduce the orchestra significantly were made public.
Since the plans for ENO’s enforced move out of London were finally announced confusion and anger have only intensified: it seems that the company’s new base in Manchester will bring only smaller-scale work to the city, and that full-scale productions will continue to be staged each year at the Coliseum in London in a four- or five-month season, more or less what it is doing at present. In addition, there is still no mention of the company touring its stagings, a move that might finally justify its “national” epithet."
Full article: Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review | Classical music | The Guardian
"Uncertainty over the future of ACE’s most prominent victim, English National Opera, continued. The year ends with the company shorn of its music director, Martyn Brabbins, who resigned when plans to reduce the orchestra significantly were made public.
Since the plans for ENO’s enforced move out of London were finally announced confusion and anger have only intensified: it seems that the company’s new base in Manchester will bring only smaller-scale work to the city, and that full-scale productions will continue to be staged each year at the Coliseum in London in a four- or five-month season, more or less what it is doing at present. In addition, there is still no mention of the company touring its stagings, a move that might finally justify its “national” epithet."
Full article: Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review | Classical music | The Guardian
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