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Opera Review: The Marriage of Figaro, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
I’m always amazed by the success of the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).
Opera Review: The Wind, Erland Cooper and the Chorus of Opera North, RNCM, Manchester
Eschewing my usual Friday night supping gin with pals at Manchester’s HOME, I strolled down Oxford Road to the Royal Northern College of Music for an evening of culture and wine.
Opera Review: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss / The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti, Royal Northern College of Music
It was a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon as The Blonde and I walked down Oxford Road towards the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) to attend its reopening to the public.
Opera Review: The Prodigal Son by Claude Debussy, Opera on Location, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
As regular readers of this column will know, it has been a quiet year or so here at the OperaWatch offices, which are situated deep inside Northern Soul Towers.
Online Opera Review: Fidelio by Beethoven, Opera North
This week sees a landmark in my long walk on this weird and mostly wonderful world, although weird has the upper hand at the moment.
Online Opera Review: Nineteen Ways of Looking, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art and Chinese Arts Now
As we hurtle towards 2021, I realise that it’s been eight months since I last saw a live opera and who knows when I will see one again.
OperaWatch: Lockdown Edition
It’s been a quiet old time here at OperaWatch HQ. The furniture is dust-covered, the trainee opera critics have all been furloughed and I sit here like Miss Havisham dripping in cobwebs and waiting for news, any news.
Opera Review: The Marriage of Figaro and The Turn of the Screw, Opera North, The Lowry
For OperaWatch, it’s a welcome return to The Lowry for Opera North’s 2020 spring season.
Preview: OperaWatch, Winter 2020
On the eve of the EU referendum in 2016, Richard Mantle, the general director of Opera North, warned of the detrimental effect a no vote would have on the “enormous talent pool which is Europe”.
Win tickets to see RNCM Opera’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Win tickets to see RNCM Opera’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.
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