To Die For [A Comedy]
London Coliseum, WC2N 4ES , [Venue Details]For one night only, ENO welcomes a guest production by Nederlandse Reisopera and Phion Symphony Orchestra for the UK premiere of this exceptional new comic opera, following its world premiere in The Netherlands in April 2026.
This exuberant black farce, by British-Russian composer Elena Langer, is a satire about our fixation on fame, and the shameless exploitation for profit, entertainment and voyeurism of other people’s misery.
Originally commissioned by the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, this comic opera was cancelled after the invasion of Ukraine, being deemed insufficiently patriotic.
Since Nikolai Erdman’s 1928 play The Suicide, the basis of the opera, was itself banned before its first performance, the opera has therefore helped Erdman achieve the distinction of getting banned on two separate occasions in Russia, a hundred years apart.
At the centre of the opera, set in the chaotic new Russia of the 1990s, is the unemployed and hopeless Semyon Podsekayev. He has missed out on the dodgy economic boom-times of the new country, and when his latest pathetic venture falls apart, he decides it’s time to call it a day.
But his intended suicide is immediately hijacked by a horde of bloodsuckers and crooks eager to profit from it.
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Admission
Min: £25.00
Max: £90.00
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: Nederlandse Reisopera, Phion Symphony Orchestra
Interval: Yes
Age restriction: 15+
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For one night only, ENO welcomes a guest production by Nederlandse Reisopera and Phion Symphony Orchestra for the UK premiere of this exceptional new comic opera, following its world premiere in The Netherlands in April 2026.
This exuberant black farce, by British-Russian composer Elena Langer, is a satire about our fixation on fame, and the shameless exploitation for profit, entertainment and voyeurism of other people’s misery.
Originally commissioned by the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, this comic opera was cancelled after the invasion of Ukraine, being deemed insufficiently patriotic.
Since Nikolai Erdman’s 1928 play The Suicide, the basis of the opera, was itself banned before its first performance, the opera has therefore helped Erdman achieve the distinction of getting banned on two separate occasions in Russia, a hundred years apart.
At the centre of the opera, set in the chaotic new Russia of the 1990s, is the unemployed and hopeless Semyon Podsekayev. He has missed out on the dodgy economic boom-times of the new country, and when his latest pathetic venture falls apart, he decides it’s time to call it a day.
But his intended suicide is immediately hijacked by a horde of bloodsuckers and crooks eager to profit from it.
Admission
Min: £25.00
Max: £90.00
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: Nederlandse Reisopera, Phion Symphony Orchestra
Interval: Yes
Age restriction: 15+
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