Creating exciting performances
The work of Opera North Projects crosses conventional boundaries, bringing classical and contemporary arts together in an eclectic year-round programme of performance, visual arts commissions, literary events and artistic development. Projects take apart the elements of opera: words, music, visual arts and theatre, and put them back together in new ways.
Opera North Projects produces small-scale touring shows, site specific performance and commissions, together with a rolling programme of artistic residencies. ‘Home’ is the beautifully restored Howard Assembly Room in Leeds, a captivating and flexible performance space whose public programme is curated by the Projects Department.
Work often has an emphasis on collaboration, with recent partners including The Royal Shakespeare Company, the Manchester International Festival, Kneehigh Theatre, The Opera Group and The Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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Current projects
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The Girl I Left Behind Me
The Girl I Left Behind Me is a supremely well-sung and coolly contemporary look at one of the most intriguing questions of musical theatre – just what is it that m...
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Bachathon
A spotlight comes on; a single performer is illuminated, lifts the bow, and begins to play. What do you do? Not normally a question you ask yourself at a classical music ...
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The Lullaby Project
Soothing, bitter or even bawdy, there's much more to the lullaby than sending a child to sleep. This online collection of lullabies old and new, is a tribute to the wonde...
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Life Cycle
Life Cycle is a moving, occasionally shocking and ultimately but not easily, uplifting set of songs about becoming a mother. Life Cycle is written by composer...
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Mein Lieber Schwan
To accompany the first year of Opera North's Ring Cycle, which opened with Das Rheingold on Saturday 18 June 2011, Opera North Projects asked filmmaker and musician ...
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She, So Beloved
She, So Beloved is a film and installation by the Quay Brothers inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes’ Commissioned by O...
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Winterreise
Opera North’s Winterreise,is performed with simple yet intense expressivity by by bass-baritone Andrew Foster Williams and pianist Christopher Gould. Carrying onl...