Articles relating to: RNCM
Review: Ute Lemper, Rendezvous with Marlene, RNCM, Manchester
It was 1987 in Paris and young cabaret performer Ute Lemper was opening as Sally Bowles in the stage musical Cabaret.
Read the full story..Opera Review: Dialogues des Carmelites, RNCM, Manchester
As tradition would have it, here at the OperaWatch office our Christmas celebrations start when the tickets for the Royal Northern College of Music’s December production arrive.
Read the full story..Review: Neil Tennant in conversation with Andrew McMillan, Manchester Literature Festival, RNCM
For Neil Tennant, it’s been a pop life. From writing pop into his personality, to writing his personality inextricably into pop, music has been at the heart of his biography.
Read the full story..Win tickets to Protest Music inspired by Peterloo 2019 at RNCM
Win tickets to RNCM and Manchester Histories present Protest Music inspired by Peterloo 2019.
Read the full story..Review: An Evening with Graham Norton, Manchester Literature Festival
“I forgot you wrote it.” This was the feedback Graham Norton received from his mum which let him know he was onto a winner with this novel writing lark.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..Review: Simon Schama, Manchester Literature Festival
Simon Schama is the kind of historian I want to be when I grow up.
Read the full story..Review: How To Be Champion – An Evening with Sarah Millican, Manchester Literature Festival
“I don’t care if people don’t find me funny. I know I’m funny because it’s the job I do.”
Read the full story..“When I look back at my records, I see it as like making movies or building houses.” Northern Soul talks to country music legend, Marty Stuart
“I guess you could say that my mom set the standard at kind of an unattainable place,” says Marty Stuart, one of the undisputed heroes of modern country music.
Read the full story..Review: Arundhati Roy, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
As an undergraduate at Manchester Metropolitan University (many moons ago) I opted for the intriguingly titled Modern Gothic module. It was here that I stumbled across 1997 Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, the story of twins Rahel and Estha growing up in the politically turbulent state of Kerala in the 1960s.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
- “The need for us is still there.” Junior Akinola, Chair of the Board of Trustees at Manchester’s Contact Theatre
- Brute Strength: Why Our Northern Concrete is Worth Keeping
- Writing a novel in 2021? Tips and guidance from a successful 2020 debut author
- “We’re a resource for the whole of the North of England.” Kenn Taylor, Lead Cultural Producer North at The British Library North
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