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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.
Opera Review: The Daughter of the Regiment, Buxton Opera House
This is Northern Soul’s second visit to the prestigious Buxton International Festival in what I hope will become an annual trip.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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.
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.
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