[caption id="attachment_269" align="alignright" width="300" caption="All About My Mother"][/caption] As Kindertotenlieder opens in the Howard Assembly Room today, a beautiful installation by artist Mariele Neudecker on composer Gustav Mahler’s “Songs on the Death of Ch...
Read the full postIt’s a busy time for all of us on The Portrait at the moment. Much of the hard work and preparation is over and we’re now in the throes of stage and orchestra rehearsals in the run-up to opening night next week. It’s always rather exciting (and sometimes tense as well!) when ...
Read the full postI first saw Carmen in London about eighteen years ago, it was probably one of the first operas I’d seen and as a result it was another ten years before I was dragged kicking and screaming to sit through another. It was dull, I didn’t believe a word of it and it was neither eng...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_256" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Juan Martin at the Howard Assembly Room. Photo credit: Karen McBride"][/caption] The 15th January 2011 is a very memorable day for me. I work as the Studio Technician for the Howard Assembly Room. On this d...
Read the full postAs an operatic voice radiates from the toilets into the office, it’s hard not to smile and think to myself where else would that happen? I am half way through my student placement in the Opera North press office and I have been converted from opera virgin to opera addict. When...
Read the full postAs a director, you get used to standing up in front of a room full of people to persuade them of your ideas, but the nerves leading up to the first outing of those ideas never disappear. Wednesday afternoon. I’m nervous. I tend to make bad jokes when I’m nervous, but I’m re...
Read the full postStrauss, Mahler, Schubert... what is it about the subject of Childhood that draws such a depth and range of emotions from the very greatest composers and musicians? What is it about Childhood that gets so deeply into our imaginations? Is it the feeling that Children are ...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_552" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mieczysław Weinberg"][/caption] Director David Pountney discusses Mieczyslaw Weinberg. I have been living with Weinberg’s music for the last 3 years, an increasingly exciting experience! It all...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_541" align="alignleft" width="212" caption="Dan Potra's costume design for 'The Journalist'"][/caption] Richard Burkhard is writing a fortnightly blog as he prepares for roles in Opera North's productions of The Portrait and The Merry ...
Read the full post[caption id="attachment_234" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Left to Right: Javier Cámara as Benigno Martin & Dario Grandinetti as Marco Zuluaga."][/caption] Talk to Her is the story of two men whose lives intersect - through a series of coincidences and chance e...
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