OperaWatch: Spring Season
With Spring around the corner, that can only mean one thing. Och, it can mean many things to millions of people, but here at Northern Soul Towers it signals OperaWatch’s favourite time of year. Fresh from...
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Michelangelo Drawing Blood, RNCM, Manchester
Of all the arts, contemporary dance is perhaps the most abstract and least understood. The way to think of it is not so much the telling of a story, but as an emotional response to something – a person or a painting, for example...
Read MoreOperaWatch: What’s on in Winter
As I look out of the window of the OperaWatch offices, housed on the 43rd floor of Northern Soul Towers, I can see snow-covered lands as far as the Lakes. Winter has finally arrived and with it an exiting new opera season. There...
Read MoreOpera Reviews: Four shows, seven bodies
It’s been quite an opera season in the old Northern Powerhouse. We’ve seen a troika of triumphs from Opera North followed by a new streaming venture at Manchester’s HOME and a great production of Kurt Weill, not to mention...
Read MoreWonderland & Other Adventures: Julie Hesmondhalgh
I’m sitting in the Royal Northern College of Music, a leading international conservatoire a mile south of Manchester city centre. Next to me is Julie Hesmondhalgh. We’re perched at the edge of the RNCM’s...
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