Saturday night was going to be big. Andy was being interviewed by Emily about “letting the side down”. It was about to be both a whitewash and a car crash which would make it a car wash. I’m rather glad I had tickets to see a...
Read MoreAs the month of November approaches, we are well and truly into Autumn which can mean only one thing: the return of a new opera season. Despite a spirited Cav/Pag and a magnificent Aida, it was a relatively quiet summer. But,...
Read MoreOf all the iconic Italian operas, I had yet to see Verdi’s Aida. So you can imagine the excitement here at the OperaWatch office deep in the bowels of Northern Soul Towers when the tickets arrived for this production by Opera...
Read MoreAs keen readers of OperaWatch will know (thank you, Freda and Eric Thwaites), summer is traditionally a quiet period for opera here in the North. While opera companies are off sunning themselves on beaches across Europe in a...
Read MoreAt OperaWatch we always look forward to an invitation to the latest student production at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). Over the years, I’ve come to treasure the delights that the RNCM has to offer and I fight...
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