Articles relating to: opera
Opera Review: Mary’s Hand, Lancaster Priory Church
I was going to start with that old OperaWatch standby: “It’s been a quiet time here at OW offices.”
Review: Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Oh, the irony! I had to miss the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera for a night at the opera.
Review: Tosca, Opera North, The Lowry
It’s been a quiet couple of months here in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers.
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.
Win a pair of tickets to Hansel and Gretel at Manchester’s RNCM
Northern Soul has teamed up with the Royal Northern College of Music to offer five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to RNCM Opera’s latest production, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel.
Review: Cinderella, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
As I write, a real Cinderella story is being played out in the pages of the rabidly, sycophantically Royalist British press.
Opera Reviews: Albert Herring at Buxton Opera Festival, and other opera goings-on
Summer is usually a quiet time here at the OperaWatch offices.
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.
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.
OperaWatch: Spring Season
With Spring around the corner, that can only mean one thing.
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