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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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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”.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..Review: The Greek Passion by Bohuslav Martinü, Opera North, The Lowry, Salford
Saturday night was going to be big.
Read the full story..Review: The Intelligence Park, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
There is an old joke that goes like this.
Read the full story..Review: Aida, Opera North, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Of all the iconic Italian operas, I had yet to see Verdi’s Aida.
Read the full story..Opera Review: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, City of Manchester Opera, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
For some reason, May 23 stuck in my mind. It was an important day, but I couldn’t remember why. At my age, this happens with frightening regularity.
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