[caption id="attachment_524" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Heather Shipp (right) as Mad Margaret in Ruddigore. Photo credit: Robert Workman"][/caption] Week Four of rehearsals for Carmen. We have been enacting steamy, sweltering scenes in Acts I and II whilst trud...
Read the full postSaturday 8th January 2.30-5. 45 pm Howard Assembly Room Opera North Projects is excited to announce an afternoon symposium exploring the music and times of Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996). Weinberg was an essentially private man who kept getting in h...
Read the full postThe Cranes Are Flying Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov Saturday 8th January 2011, 7.30pm Howard Assembly Room Book tickets As a sneak preview of our first events in January, we wanted to treat you to a selection of gorgeous stills from the 1958 Palme d’Or Winner The Cranes...
Read the full postIt's Christmas so it must be Die Fledermaus. Oh no it isn't, it's The MerryWidow. Which of course is just as good and probably better. But this Merry Widow (I've done a few others) is a classy affair which has already been admired this season. Which strangely for me mak...
Read the full postI’m really looking forward to the opening of The Adventures of Pinocchio again at Leeds Grand Theatre at Christmas. It’s a great show and the perfect ‘pantopera’ to see over the Christmas period. I’m in a pretty special position as I get to see how the show comes together from...
Read the full postIn honour of the Basquiat Strings and the Skampa Quartet, both playing at the Howard Assembly Room this Autumn, here are a few of the string-based albums that have been getting an airing in our office of late. All highly recommended! Basquiat Strings Self titled Touman...
Read the full postI am delighted to find a good reason to show The Tree of Wooden Clogs on the big screen at the Howard Assembly Room. Ermanno Olmi’s astonishing film has since somewhat disappeared from public view since it won the Palme D’Or in 1978. Our 'Back to the Woods' series of events in...
Read the full postI’ve been working as Education Runner for just over 2 months now and I love it! My role is to attend as many projects and workshops as possible in the 4 months I’m here, acting as anything from Project Manager to Example Participant (which is great as I get to become a child f...
Read the full postSo - the latest offering from Opera North. I went to see the performance on Saturday 25th September and I thought it was probably the best piece of theatre I have ever seen. Obviously being a 3 hour piece I can’t go through all the details one by one so I have picked out m...
Read the full postI have always loved the violin. I think that my life really started from the moment that I first saw one in an antique shop. I learnt to play it and practised many hours till I became good enough to make a living playing Jazz tunes and English Folk music on the street and in c...
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