This week the ENO announced their new 2012/2013 season, a tremendously diverse and challenging programme of pieces. Operas range from Handel’s ‘Julius Caesar’ to an exciting new composition by Philip Glass called ‘The Perfect American’. press gathered in the upper rooms at the Colliseum to sip tea and hear about the upcoming operatic productions.

Here is the list in full so you can start picking out your favourites to go and see. With internationally renowned talent on stage and a team of unrivalled experts behind the scenes, there is much to look forward to.

The Magic Flute, Mozart, opens 13 September 2012
Julietta, Martinů, opens 17 September 2012
Julius Caesar, Handel, opens 1 October 2012
Don Giovanni, Mozart, opens 17 October 2012
The Pilgrim’s Progress, Vaughan Williams, opens 5 November 2012
Carmen, Bizet, opens 21 November 2012
The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, opens 1 December 2012
La traviata, Verdi, opens 2 February 2013
Medea, Charpentier, opens 15 February 2013
The Barber of Seville, Rossini, opens 25 February 2013
Sunken Garden, Van der Aa, opens 12 April 2013
La bohème, Puccini, opens 29 April 2013
Wozzeck, Berg, opens 11 May 2013
The Perfect American, Glass, opens 1 June 2013
Death in Venice, Britten, opens 14 June 2013

More information here.