English National Opera invites artists to draw the curtains
English National Opera’s recent history has been nothing if not colourful – a trend that seems set to continue, though in a more literal sense, with the inauguration of its new Jonathan Miller Safety Curtain scheme. To celebrate its long-term association with the leading director, the company is going to reveal a new safety curtain designed by a prominent artist at the start of each season. Kicking things off before the first night of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice recently was the above Chagall-like design by Luke Edward Hall, complete with a left-handed violinist. It certainly got people talking.