If you’re a contemporary dance fan, see it. If not, wait for the other operas coming up in an autumn ENO schedule devoted to the Orphic legend and hope they’ll be better.

Her Eurydice, Sarah Tynan, is wonderfully poignant and plaintive. Soraya Mafi’s singing, as Love, is as bright and pure as crystal. But really, this is Coote’s show, supported by understated orche

This Orpheus And Eurydice is the first of four Orpheus-themed operas running at the Coliseum this autumn, in which English National Opera is taking formidable artistic and financial risks.

Overall the standards of singing, playing and dancing are high, but the production as a whole amounts to less than the sum of its parts. No-one can doubt the strength of the dancing, which reveals bot

Dancers aside, this has a remarkably small cast for an opera with only Sarah Tynan as Eurydice and Soraya Mafi as Love (Gluck's version of Cupid) having significant roles alongside Alice Coote which th