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Review: Tosca, Opera North, The Lowry
It’s been a quiet couple of months here in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers.
Read the full story..Review: Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, Opera North, City Varieties, Leeds
Off to Leeds again for a night of musical entertainment courtesy of Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the City Varieties Music Hall, carried across the moors in a timely manner by TransPennine Express.
Read the full story..Review: Kiss Me Kate, Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre
This is a revival of Opera North’s magnificent production of Cole Porter’s Shakespearian parody Kiss me, Kate, staged by the company in 2015.
Read the full story..Review: Madama Butterfly and Un Ballo In Mascera, Opera North, The Lowry, Salford
A red carpet was introduced at The Lowry for Opera North’s revival of Madama Butterfly by Puccini.
Read the full story..A Week at the Opera: ‘Little Greats’, Opera North at The Lowry, Salford
Okay, three nights does not a week make – but why spoil a Marx Brothers’ pun for the sake of numerical accuracy?
Read the full story..Opera Review: Turandot, Opera North, Leeds Town Hall
Turandot by Puccini has long been my favourite opera. There is something about the scale of its ambition, the dark tragedy at the heart of what is essentially a love story, and the sheer power of the music that rips my heart out every time I hear it.
Read the full story..Opera Reviews: ‘Oxpit’ and keeping opera European
When Theresa May signed Article 50 and triggered the start of Brexit, I was reminded of the statement by Richard Mantle, general director of Opera North, on the eve of the referendum in which he spoke of the “enormous talent pool which is Europe” and his fear that isolationism would diminish that pool available to British opera.
Read the full story..Review: Opera North Autumn Season, The Lowry, Salford
Robert Hamilton, Northern Soul’s Opera Correspondent, enjoys an outstanding Opera North Autumn season featuring Der Rosenkavalier, Billy Budd, Il tabarro and Suor Angelica at The Lowry in Salford.
Read the full story..Review: Die Walkure at The Lowry and Wether at HOME, Manchester
As you can imagine, there’s been a right old ding-dong here in the offices of OperaWatch at Northern Soul Towers.
Read the full story..Review: Andrea Chénier, Turandot, La traviata
It was a cold Winter evening when I set off across the Pennines, armed only with a couple of G&Ts.
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