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Amid a brutal civil war, Adriana, left pregnant after an assault by a soldier, raises her son Yonas with love and hope; when he discovers the truth about his father, she must convince him that true strength lies in mercy rather than revenge. This staging, an ENO debut uniting Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon and Music Director Designate André de Ridder, features Kristina Stanek in the title role.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/adriana-mater-english-national-opera-63440/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c91342489d56dbe20443493fdace8030c482bd74f7070027d98312a415687e1f-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Breaking the Waves - English National Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "GBP 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/breaking-the-waves-english-national-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "An opera performed at the London Coliseum by the English National Opera. 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The hauntingly beautiful story explores love, faith, heartbreak and loss, set to a hypnotic score influenced by Britten and Philip Glass.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/breaking-the-waves-english-national-opera-63446/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b1f72a8e6a072ae5b7e171df0226bd6853461851040713a6265f87d3d58b709-600.webp"}, {"title": "Tosca - English National Opera", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "GBP 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/tosca-english-national-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "This is a new staging of Puccini's opera Tosca by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum. ENO Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon reimagines the timeless opera about love and tyranny in a concert hall in a European state overrun by civil war, exploring the art of resistance and love in the face of political censorship. Opera singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, are hunted by the sadistic police chief Scarpia, and over a single night Tosca is forced to fight for her love, her honour and her life. Sung in English with surtitles, the production features some of Puccini's most iconic arias, with Axelle Fanyo making her ENO debut as Tosca alongside Chaz'men Williams-Ali and Christopher Purves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tosca-english-national-opera-63441/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eee7e028c119ae6ffa596daabb2eb4be2d6dc24539b7ac924804ee936d58a092-600.webp"}, {"title": "Angel's Bone", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "from £15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/angel-bones-english-national-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera", "art"], "description": "Angel's Bone is a dark, unsettling opera about two bruised angels who fall into a couple's garden and are exploited by them. It comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek, staged by director Kip Williams for English National Opera. Mr and Mrs X.E, a couple facing financial crisis and a crumbling marriage, nurse the angels back to life before clipping their wings and exploiting them in pursuit of fame and fortune. Du Yun's score fuses genres from chamber music and cabaret to electronica and punk, while Williams's immersive staging uses projection and multiple viewing angles to make audiences question their own part in the exploitation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/angels-bone-60505/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9afbbddd50068d4881f054dc6cddc50eae5ec6bc2b09b7676c9b373415440937-1200.webp"}, {"title": "La traviata - English National Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "GBP 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/la-traviata-english-national-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "This is a staging of Verdi's opera La traviata by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum. It is Peter Konwitschny's Olivier Award nominated production, a bold, minimalist take on one of the world's most performed operas, telling the heartbreaking love story of Violetta and Alfredo, torn apart by family and duty and forced into an inevitable sacrifice. Driven by the characters' emotional truths, it is set to a score with some of Verdi's most recognisable melodies and is startlingly modern and relatable.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-traviata-english-national-opera-63445/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bb9e5204776a85b8a585e67f38dac9dd978180f9c0fcc8329e9fbd07cc6ecc3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Iphigénie en Tauride", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "Tickets from £15 (Ticket price includes all fees. All tickets subject to availability)", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/iphigenie-en-tauride-english-national-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Iphigénie en Tauride is Gluck's rarely performed opera about Iphigénie and her brother Oreste, children of a blood-soaked Greek dynasty, who are stranded apart and each fear the other is dead. Stranded on a remote island, forced to serve a terrifying ruler, Iphigénie dreams of home and of reuniting with her brother, until a mysterious stranger washes ashore with news of her family's collapse. English National Opera presents the work in a new staging by Olivier award-winning director Lyndsey Turner, with baroque specialist David Bates conducting and Christine Rice leading the cast as Iphigénie. The opera is sung in its original French libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard with English surtitles projected above the stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/iphigenie-en-tauride-60507/", "official_url": "https://www.eno.org/events/iphigenie-en-tauride/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7dd1a66cc123feb2f784ec9eb43691fa34487cdb080bfe64e50376724043e149-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Double Bill: Amelia al ballo & Trouble in Tahiti", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Arts Centre", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "£30, £15, £6", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera/comic-opera"], "description": "An evening of two short operas, Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia al ballo and Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, presented as a new double-bill production set in the 1950s. It is directed by Ashley Dean and promoted by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Both works centre on female protagonists whose desires are constrained by the marriages meant to sustain them. Amelia al ballo, in its UK premiere, follows Amelia as she outwits a suspicious husband and needy lover to attend a grand ball, while Trouble in Tahiti shows how Dinah and Sam's seemingly perfect suburban life masks deep unhappiness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/double-bill-amelia-al-ballo-trouble-in-tahiti-34803/", "official_url": "https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/double-bill-amelia-al-ballo-trouble-in-tahiti", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6c2a6f6bda85d2d885ec2708cd80f87d8285f41bd771d2b3b9c9a426592e429-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tosca", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "from £15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eno.org/events/tosca", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Tosca is an opera by Giacomo Puccini performed by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum. In Annilese Miskimmon's new production, sung in an English translation by Amanda Holden, the opera singer Floria Tosca plans a secret meeting with her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, in a concert hall in an unidentified European state overtaken by civil conflict. When the corrupt police chief Scarpia intervenes, a place of music is transformed into a site of fear and violence, and over one night Tosca is forced to fight for her love, her honour and her life. The cast includes Grammy Award winner Axelle Fanyo as Tosca, tenor Chaz'men Williams-Ali as Cavaradossi and Christopher Purves as Scarpia, conducted by Ben Glassberg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tosca-60506/", "official_url": "https://www.eno.org/events/tosca/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c971c1bc964175a88cdca87e7af34a2baaaaa42eadf53be50e01193a896d5afc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wilton's Music Hall", "address": "Graces Alley 1, E1 8JB London", "price": "£13.50 – £28.00 full price | £11.00 – £25.50 concession", "price_from": "13.50", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/booking?event-id=7173&instances-id=340148", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral", "society/migration"], "description": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True is a 75-minute evening of orchestral music, words and stories at Wilton's Music Hall, with no interval. The concert was born from a year of conversations in a community kitchen between musicians and people seeking asylum in the UK, and explores what home means, how we hold onto it and how we carry it with us when we have to leave. The programme moves across continents and centuries with music by Reena Esmail, Bushra el-Turk, Lembit Beecher, Piazzolla, Vaughan Williams and Copland, and forms part of City of London Sinfonia's wider season exploring asylum and migration in the UK. The orchestra was founded in 1971 by Richard Hickox, and the evening features Alexandra Wood, CLS Creative Director and Leader, with projection design by visual artist Majid Adin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true-40343/", "official_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c928c52d2c79db515bf1118b6cba39d2f5366d85b79017f2b3e131976c57fcd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Káťa Kabanová - Royal Ballet and Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-10T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 50", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/kata-kabanova-royal-ballet-and-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Káťa Kabanová is an opera about a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage under her mother-in-law's oppressive rule, who becomes swept into a passionate love affair consumed by longing and guilt. Richard Jones directs an intimate, stripped-back staging of Janáček's classic score, adapted by Jakub Hrůša with traditional Czech folk melodies. Corinne Winters stars as the tragic Káťa in this Olivier Award-winning production. The event's image is shown at https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/images/shows/square-poster/resized/250x250/kata-kabanova-royal-ballet-and-opera-f4e10f2a-cd3e-11f1-8917-00163e4a4bbc.jpg; tickets cost from £50.00; it takes place at the Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London, WC2E 9DD GB.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kata-kabanova-royal-ballet-and-opera-63460/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61457d83a2d193e34390a5cf2f78079d3f9fff56c68bc605faf1ca2922a5daed-600.webp"}, {"title": "Regents Opera And New Palace Opera: Strauss’ Elektra", "start": "2026-11-01T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£45 / £35 / £20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "45.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/book/?bookevent=4903", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "A concert performance of Richard Strauss' opera Elektra, a monumental tragedy and operatic masterpiece. Critically acclaimed Regents Opera and New Palace Opera are combining to present it, with Catharine Woodward in the title role and Ben Woodward conducting the NPORO Orchestra. The cast also includes Karin Lovelius as Klytaemnestra, Ella de Jongh as Chrysothemis, Ashley Mercer as Orest and Jonathan Finney as Aegisth. Sung in German with English surtitles, the music encompasses both the horrific and the heart-breaking for a gripping and memorable evening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/regents-opera-and-new-palace-opera-strauss-elektra-69558/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/regent-opera-and-new-palace-opera-strauss-elektra/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99ea28a256ea9146e64edafb2c97d4cd19440f44b04d705bdd884328eb5959a2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "To Die for [A Comedy] - English National Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "GBP 56", "price_from": "56.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/to-die-for-a-comedy-english-national-opera-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera/comic-opera", "comedy/satire"], "description": "To Die for [A Comedy] is a comic opera in two acts staged by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum. It was composed by British-Russian Elena Langer with a libretto by Arkady Zastyrets, translated into English by Maggie F. Gottlieb, and is directed by Sam Brown, Artistic Director of the Nederlandse Reisopera. Based on Nikolai Erdman's twice-banned 1928 play The Suicide, it follows unemployed Semyon Podsekayev, whose planned suicide in 1990s Russia is hijacked by crooks who make it famous and broadcast it live on television. This darkly funny black farce is a satire on our fixation on fame and the exploitation of other people's misery for profit and entertainment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/to-die-for-a-comedy-english-national-opera-63444/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cb3366d8142f9afac2a015c7d6aaf3c3e64d19d7a046c485b6215c15c3fa48c7-600.webp"}, {"title": "How To Cry In A House Full of Children", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "\"How To Cry In A House Full of Children\" is a play performed at The Space. Originally from Uruguay and brought to the UK by True Life Productions, it is a powerful and intimate portrait of a mother driven to the brink of emotional collapse. Through memory, confession and raw vulnerability, this poetic work explores the invisible labour of motherhood and the longing to be truly seen. Playwright and director Victoria Vera and performer and choreographer Carolina Piñeyro Duarte lead a creative team including UK producer Rosina Piovani.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/how-to-cry-in-a-house-full-of-children-65904/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/how-to-cry-in-a-house-full-of-children/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Samira", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Dorfman - National Theatre", "address": "National Theatre, Upper Ground, SE1 9PX Ground South Bank, London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "24.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/samira-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/politics", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Samira is a new stage play at the Dorfman theatre. British-Lebanese writer Carmen Nasr makes her National Theatre debut with this political play, directed by Emily Burns and starring May Calamawy. Inspired by true events, it follows London academics thrown into crisis when a Syrian blogger they follow vanishes in Damascus during the Arab Spring, raising questions of authenticity, political upheaval and identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samira-63511/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d59d407e34978faf095fcfb102913c3318df3f810cf9c3076690af8ad6380c7f-600.webp"}, {"title": "My Mother Tongue Wants To Disown Me (VOILA! 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The 60-minute play, recommended for ages 16+, is about the deep nostalgia we feel for home despite not being connected to it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me-voila-festival-60514/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9642c8b6cd87d3116c676b04706f3511b5e0e7bed20052247216c27cc872852-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Glorious Madness", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dorfman - National Theatre", "address": "National Theatre, Upper Ground, SE1 9PX Ground South Bank, London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/glorious-madness-tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Glorious Madness is a new British musical at the Dorfman - National Theatre. Written by Iman Qureshi and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, it tells an original, moving love story framed around the iconic, beloved songs of Grammy and Brit Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician and producer Joan Armatrading, one of Britain's most enduring and distinctive performers. It is one of eight world premieres in the National Theatre's new season, and a bold and romantic show that's sure to capture your heart.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/glorious-madness-63510/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/168fa62ddd7a549b0acc81b983380920655b8220bd7f79fb39a3c94473ebd8c9-600.webp"}, {"title": "Carmen", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "£47 - £343", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "343.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/carmen-damiano-michieletto", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Carmen is an opera at the Royal Opera House on the Main Stage, sung in French with English surtitles. Director Damiano Michieletto stages Georges Bizet's score, with libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, conducted by Sesto Quatrini. In a Spanish town, the free-spirited Carmen seduces police officer Don José, who abandons his career for her, until her attention turns to the toreador Escamillo and his jealousy threatens to erupt violently. The cast includes Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ramona Zaharia as Carmen, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as Don José.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/carmen-38317/", "official_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/carmen-damiano-michieletto", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88edf53c8a4e48ec7f6fcdcce76199acc6ac22893bf04b2f75dc888517fefc97-2000.webp"}]}