I 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...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_425" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Mara Carlyle will perform in Life Cycle"][/caption] With just three days to go until the premiere of Life Cycle at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 13 March, here are some more of Toby Litt’s lyrics from the s...
Read the full postOpera North's Music Director, Richard Farnes A production of From the House of the Dead will always be a much-anticipated and significant event in the life of an opera company, because it has to be the most extraordinary opera by one of the most individual and dramatically...
Read the full postGary Verity, Chief Executive, Welcome to Yorkshire I think it’s fitting that our Y 11 event is to be held on the stage at the Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. We've had 12 months of ups and downs that have felt, at times, like we have been part of a drama production, bu...
Read the full postIt’s the final countdown in the last few days before the premiere of Life Cycle at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 13 March. Here are some more lyrics from Life Cycle songs, written by Toby Litt for music composed by Emily Hall, charting the course of new parenthood to birth ...
Read the full postA brand new song series, Life Cycle, charting one woman’s progress on her journey to becoming a mother, premieres next week as part of the WOW-Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre, London. The series of twenty songs about creating and nurturing life is less freq...
Read the full postA new children’s opera Cautionary Tales opens next week in the Howard Assembly Room and we interviewed sisters Lexi (age 8 ) and Izzy (age 3) to get their thoughts and expectations of the piece after being read the poem about Jim. Based on Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Ta...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_651" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Orchestra of Opera North. Photo Richard Moran"][/caption] Richard Farnes, Opera North's Music Director, talks about big scale drama ahead of the Company's first step on Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. I...
Read the full postKatherine Broderick I have been singing ever since I was a very little girl. In primary school my teacher would stand me on her desk to sing to the whole class. My Dad (who is a brill singer) taught me lots of lovely folksongs and that's why I love singing. When I was 7, m...
Read the full postBy Martin Pickard, Head of Music, Opera North A few weeks a go there was a flurry in the press about how ‘posh’ the current batch of British pop singers were. Producer Pete Waterman suggested that snobs in the recording companies were favouring privately-educated...
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