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OperaWatch: What’s on in Winter
As I look out of the window of the OperaWatch offices, housed on the 43rd floor of Northern Soul Towers, I can see snow-covered lands as far as the Lakes.
Read the full story..Review: The Barber of Seville, Jenůfa, Kiss Me, Kate, Salford
Kiss Me, Kate opens with Another Op’nin’, Another Show, a hymn to hoofers and thespians everywhere.
Read the full story..Book Review: Opera North by Kara McKechnie
As you may or may not have noticed, it’s been a bit of a quiet summer on the old opera front.
Read the full story..Opera North, Mozart and a dime store Elvis
With a spring in my step, I set out for the opera and a spot of entente cordiale.
Read the full story..What’s on in Spring – Operawatch
In the manner of TV’s Springwatch I have decided to call my occasional opera preview Operawatch.
Read the full story..Review: The Bartered Bride and La traviata by Opera North
It’s a busy old time in the Hamilton household at the moment what with the build-up to the imminent birthday celebrations of your esteemed Opera Correspondent. The preparations for the state banquet, the VIP guest list and buying the frame for her Majesty’s telegram have all eaten away at time itself.
Read the full story..Preview: Opera North at The Lowry, Autumn Season 2014
As you may or may not know I have been given a battlefield promotion from Opera Critic to Opera Correspondent for my outstanding service to the understanding of opera in the North.
Read the full story..Götterdämmerung, Opera North
On a really sunny day and with the quarter finals of the World Cup looming, I set off to the darkness of The Lowry in Salford for a six and a half hour performance of the last of the Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung.
Read the full story..La Bohème
Despite being an institutionalised bourgeois of many years standing, in my heart of hearts I am a bohemian.
Read the full story..The Girl of the Golden West
A few years ago, when I still had a fist full of dollars, I visited a small mining town between Santa Fe and Albuquerque called Madrid. It was a one-horse town with a single road running through it.
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