As 'The Indian Queen' opens, can Peter Sellars save the ENO?
These are grim times at English National Opera. Earlier this month the company, which occupies the London Coliseum, the capital's largest theatre, was placed in "special measures" by Arts Council England: it has two years to shape up or face the funding axe. Its chairman, Martyn Rose, and executive director, Henriette Götz, had resigned within two weeks of each other, while the artistic director, John Berry, holds on despite a barrage of criticism; vision, finance and politics both internal and external seem much at odds.