There’s something rather odd about ENO’s current season, and it’s not that it’s excessively short. As VAN has reported on previously, and others have recently noted online, there’s the strong whiff of unattributed AI involved in their work. First, it was in their website copy, which, for a time, claimed that Benjamin Britten was still alive, and that Richard and Johann Strauss were related. Now, it’s in their design department.


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Hugh Morris is a freelance writer and editor based in London.