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Preview: Jack Foley
ENGLISH National Opera is presenting an exciting line-up during
its new season, from May 2005 until the end of the year.
Here, IndieLondon picks out the best of what's on offer, while
providing the opportunity to buy tickets to each performance.
Jephtha
Critically-lauded British director Katie Mitchell makes her ENO
debut with a deeply moving realisation of Handel's last oratorio.
In this magnificent staging of the composer's masterpiece, personal,
political and theological themes merge convincingly in a universal
drama of gripping immediacy.
Jephtha is the warrior who makes a pact with God; in return for
a victorious return fom war, he promises to sacrifice the first
person he sees. Fate decrees that he must murder his daughter
Iphis, leaving Jephtha to struggle with the desperate consequences
of his bargain. Passionate performances are given by some of the
country's most applauded artists, including Mark Padmore and Susan
Bickley. Conductor Nicholas Kraemer is another powerful presence
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