Culture Vulture’s Phil Kirby is inspired to rhyme after seeing Opera North’s children’s opera, Cautionary Tales “When it ended I could easily have watched it again, it was that good. I was gripped by Belloc’s words, and the sheer ludicrousnous of the tales of Karmic comeu...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_505" align="alignright" width="200" caption="The Howard Assembly Room. Photo credit: Tom Arber"][/caption] KETTLING EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION WIKILEAKS NO FLY ZONES LIU XIAOBO not collecting his Nobel Peace Prize Asperger’s sufferer ...
Read the full postOpera North General Director, Richard Mantle comments: 30 March 2011 Opera North’s funding announcement for the next three years from Arts Council England is a mixed picture which presents serious ...
Read the full postWe've just finished our first week of production rehearsals for From the House of the Dead by Czech composer Janacek. The first rehearsal week is always unlike any of the subsequent weeks - a cross between starting a new school and starting a new book. In fact, I always buy...
Read the full postIt is wonderful to be back in Leeds. I love working with Opera North. It is some fifteen years or so since I first started treading the boards at The Grand Theatre with the Company and I hope it will continue for many years to come. I have sung in five of Janacek’s operas over...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_477" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Unthanks in a previous performance at the Howard Assembly Room (2009). Photo credit: Brian Slater"][/caption] In a recent article in the Yorkshire Post, ahead of the The Unthanks’ sold-out appearance ov...
Read the full postOur back-to-back gigs with The Unthanks and support act Trembling Bells are fast approaching and sold out on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 March. Perfectly timed to coincide with Spring 2011’s “folk renaissance” with big wins for UK folk acts Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling at ...
Read the full postI have wandered the hallways of Opera North since the beginning of September 2010 and I have loved (and am still loving) every single minute of it. I came to Leeds from New Zealand as the first PDIPS (Pettman Dare International Performance Scholarship) scholar, without much kn...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_430" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Young reviewers Suzanne and Emilia"][/caption] Young reviewers Suzanne and Emilia, aged 7, share their thoughts on new children's opera Cautionary Tales!, which premiered last week in the Howard Assembly R...
Read the full postI was asked a few days ago if Fidelio was my first production with Opera North. Having said it wasn't and that I'd done a couple of shows with the Company over the past few years, when I actually sat down and thought about it, I realised that this opera will be my ninth! It go...
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