Paul Daniel, who has been mujsic director of the English National Opera for eight years, is quitting. The troubled company has just come through a rocky 18 months. “Mr Daniel has been unhappy at ENO since the mid-2002 resignation of Nicholas Payne, its general director. ‘It’s been hard to square what’s happened over the past 18 months. I’ve been emotionally caught up in this. The change has been pretty distressing.”