On 16 August I moved to Leeds to work on Opera North’s production of The Adventures of Pinocchio. I’ve always been a big fan of opera and I feel privileged to be given the opportunity to work with such established musicians and singers. A big part of my role is animati...

John Whitfield talks techno lullabies before the Southbank Gamelan players join Plaid on stage at the Howard Assembly Room One night in the late 1990s, I heard a track called Kortisin by a group I’d never heard of, called Plaid on the London dance-music station Kiss FM. It ...

Greentop is a circus school based in Sheffield and uses circus ‘arts’ to help educate people. We are very excited to be able to deliver a clowning and circus skills workshop at Opera North tomorrow. All art forms come with their own baggage - preconceptions about what it’s ...

It’s been nearly 3 years since I played Pinocchio, so I was slightly anxious before we started rehearsals, wondering if I could remember any of the ‘moves’, and if I would still have the energy at the end of the show to do the cartwheel!  Of course I needn’t have worried – we’...

Stage rehearsals begin today. Arriving at the theatre for the half hour call I do my usual check around the stage to make sure that all my tools are in the right places and all the doors are working smoothly. Make a mental note: the cupboard door up stage op is a bit stiff...