Covent Garden & Strand

14 March 2010

Leicester Square Theatre WC2H 7BX[map]

Comedian Dieudonne with his newest stage show 'Sandrine'. It deals with the theme of marital violence. Patrick has become a wounded animal, unable to accept the break-up with Sandrine. He drifts into a hellish downward spiral of hatred and violence, leading to a lawsuit which is the subject of this comedy. The issues touched on, while sensitive, are more social than political on this occasion.

4 December 2009

Heaven Nightclub WC2N 6NG[map]

Dub bass collides with dance beats, live guitar and bubbling electronics.

11 August 2010 to 15 August 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

The English National Ballet performs 'Cinderella'.

12 February 2010 to 23 March 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Donizetti's The Elixir of Love is still the most popular operatic 'rom com' of all. Jonathan Miller's staging affectionately relocates the action from 19th century rural Italy to small-town '50s America. One of today's highest-flying young lyric tenors, John Tessier made a sensational ENO debut in the 2008 revival of Rossini's The Barber of Seville; he now returns as Nemorino, the lovesick young mechanic who believes that a travelling salesman (played by comic maestro Andrew Shore) really can cure his broken heart.

18 June 2010 to 9 July 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Mozart's first mature masterpiece took a stock mythological plot and transformed it into a life-and-death drama of real characters confronted by the personal and political consequences of choices made in a time of war. Following her 2009 adaptation of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas which sold-out at the Young Vic, and is also set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, Katie Mitchell brings her unique directorial style to bear on what is now widely seen as Mozart's most deeply felt piece. Full of virtuosic yet often intimately lyrical vocal writing, grand public processions and stirring choruses, Idomeneo is conducted by ENO's Olivier Award-winning Music Director, Edward Gardner.

15 March 2010 to 27 March 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

David Alden follows his double Olivier Award-winning production of Janáček's Jenůfa with a new staging of the Czech composer's later lyrical masterpiece, Katya Kabanova. A claustrophobically intense yet heart-rending study of sexual morality within a close-knit community, it was inspired by Janáček's erotic obsession with a younger married woman. Stunning singing actress Patricia Racette makes her ENO debut as the passionate soul trapped in a loveless marriage, with Stuart Skelton (a sensational Peter Grimes in another Alden staging in 2009) as the stranger who offers her a brief hope of happiness. Janáček's most lyrically emotional score is conducted by Mark Wigglesworth with an outstanding cast also featuring Susan Bickley, Clive Bayley, John Graham-Hall, Anna Grevelius and Alfie Boe.

4 February 2010 to 26 February 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

The most dramatic of all Donizetti's operas - loosely based on Sir Walter Scott's darkly brooding tragedy - returns to ENO in a revival of award-winning director David Alden's electrifying production from 2008. Dazzling soprano Anna Christy stars as the childlike bride, tricked into a politically advantageous marriage by her abusive older brother, with bel canto tenor Barry Banks as the Byronic outcast with whom she falls desperately, madly, murderously, in love. Antony Walker, Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera and the first recipient of the Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Award, makes his Company debut in one of the most richly lyrical, yet psychologically acute operas in the entire Italian romantic repertoire.

1 June 2010 to 8 July 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

A thrilling tale of friendship tested by love, set on an exotic isle in an eastern sea, Bizet's early masterpiece is a gem of 19th-century French opera, full of fabulous tunes, colourful orchestration and evocative choruses.

18 May 2010 to 10 July 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Among the great dramatic sopranos of our time, Catherine Malfitano made an unforgettable ENO debut in 2006 as the tortured Kostelnicka in David Alden's Olivier Award-winning production of Jenufa. Famed as one of the foremost Toscas of recent decades, she now returns to direct Puccini's ever popular opera with rising star Amanda Echalaz - already heralded as 'the leading Tosca of her generation' (The Independent) - making her ENO debut in the role that Ms Malfitano once made her own. With one Tosca on stage and another behind the scenes, a radical new design approach and the proven Puccinian passion of Edward Gardner, ENO's Olivier Award-winning Music Director, in the pit, this new production promises to be a thrilling new take on Puccini's most powerfully theatrical opera.

27 November 2009 to 11 December 2009

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

A performance of 'Messiah' featuring top tenor John Mark Ainsley, and the incomparable ENO chorus. To mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, ENO says 'Hallelujah' to Handel by welcoming his greatest and most popular oratorio on to the London Coliseum stage.

2 December 2009 to 2 January 2010

New Players Theatre WC2N 6NG[map]

12 September 2009 to 14 March 2010

National Portrait Gallery WC2H 0HE[map]

John Gibbons's work is closely associated with large, abstract, floor-based sculpture in welded steel. This display focuses on Gibbons's unconventional engagement with portraiture, bringing together five sculptures that evoke particular individuals.

28 November 2009

St Giles-in-the-Fields Church  WC2H 8LG[map]

A concert featuring Johnny Parry Trio and Chamber orchestra.

4 December 2009 to 5 December 2009

Leicester Square Theatre WC2H 7BX[map]

Comedians Adam Bloom, Simon Evans, Mick Sargeant and Jo Jo Smith try out and fine tune new material.

27 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Leicester Square Theatre WC2H 7BX[map]

Comedians Brendon Burns, Andrew Lawrence, Henning Wehn and Tiernan Doueb try out and fine tune new material.

18 December 2009

Leicester Square Theatre WC2H 7BX[map]

Comedians Milton Jones and Danny Mcgouchlin try out and fine tune new material.

19 December 2009

Leicester Square Theatre WC2H 7BX[map]

Comedians Milton Jones, Jarred Christmas and Danny Mcgouchlin try out and fine tune new material.

11 December 2009

Leicester Square Theatre WC2H 7BX[map]

Comics Pete Firman, Matt Kirshen and Josie Long share the stage in a mixed bill of laughter.

25 November 2009

St Giles-in-the-Fields Church  WC2H 8LG[map]

Folk, pop and rock band who have received widespread critical acclaim. Formed by Nick Hemming, formerly of early 1990s indie band She Talks To Angels, which included actor Paddy Considine, film director Shane Meadows and bassist Richard Eaton.

8 January 2010 to 10 April 2010

Garrick Theatre WC2H 0HH[map]