English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO), located at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane is the national opera company of England, and one of two opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. It is famous for a hugely theatrical style of opera presentation, for attracting talented lesser-known singers, often in modern productions, and for singing in English. Ticket prices are relatively low for large-scale opera. ENO mounted sixteen productions in its 2005-06 season with a paid attendance for the year of 216,236. In 1898 Lilian Baylis presented a series of opera concerts at the Old Vic theatre. Some ten years later she established a theatre company there, initially performing 'cut-down' versions of Shakespeare's plays. She added a small group of dancers to the company, Sadler's Wells Theatre opened, and the Vic-Wells Opera Company was formed. The dancers later separated from Vic-Wells and became the Royal Ballet. The company toured while the theatre was closed... full article at wikipedia