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Venue: Hackney Empire, London

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Address291 Mare Street,
Hackney
London
E8 1EJ
United Kingdom
Google maps51° 32' 43.732" N 0° 3' 19.531" W
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Art imitates art in ETO’s bracing new Pagliacci

Ronald Samm (Canio) © Richard Hubert Smith
Divorced from Cavalleria rusticana, English Touring Opera’s contemporary take on Leoncavallo’s masterpiece ticks all the boxes.
****1
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English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast

Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani (Nemorino) and Emyr Wyn Jones (Dulcamara) © Richard Hubert Smith
L'elisir d'amore may not immediately bring Skegness or Romney to mind, but ETO's new production works quite well there... just look out for the seagulls!
***11
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Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

Brenton Spiteri (Tebaldo) and Samantha Price (Romeo) © Richard Hubert Smith
Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.
****1
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ETO's The Snowmaiden melts the heart and gladdens the ears

Ffion Edwards (Snow Maiden) © Richard Hubert Smith
Olivia Fuchs' production of Rimsky-Korsakov's charming fable for ETO begins its tour in Hackney and is worth travelling to see. Catch this thoughtful production in a town near you.
****1
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ETO opens spring tour with an off-the-wall Manon Lescaut

Jenny Stafford (Manon) and Aiden Edwards (Lescaut) © Richard Hubert Smith
Jude Christian's indulgent reinvention of Puccini's opera does not serve English Touring Opera well as it embarks on its spring tour. 
**111
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ETO's new Il viaggio a Reims is a long journey

Il viaggio a Reims © Richard Hubert Smith
A Rossini comedy should sparkle, but this new production, starting its tour from Hackney, is decidedly lacking bubbles.
**111
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The Poisoner’s Dilemma: ETO presents a dramatic Lucrezia Borgia

Paula Sides (Lucrezia) and Aidan Edwards (Alfonso) © Richard Hubert Smith
Donizetti’s tale of one the Italian Renaissance’s objects of hate is well sung and superbly acted in ETO's new spring tour production.
****1
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A character study in singing: Handel’s Tamerlano at ETO

Rodrigo Sosa dal Pozzo (Tamerlano) and James Hall (Andronico) © Richard Hubert Smith
A fine cast breathes life into the story of the captured Ottoman Sultan Bajazet and his Mongol conqueror.
****1
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