OPINION - Carnage for the ENO is what ‘levelling up’ really means
RIGHT now, London has two opera houses. (Berlin has three.) There’s the Royal Opera, the grand one, in Covent Garden, and, in the West End, you can see English National Opera a mile off, under the sparkly orb of the London Coliseum. They’re different. The Royal Opera attracts singers you’d double your overdraft to hear, with splendiferous productions, and charges accordingly. English National Opera is cheap as chips by comparison, with free tickets for under-21s and edgy productions.