Articles relating to: Robert Hamilton
Food Review: Tast Catala, King Street, Manchester
It is Wednesday July 18, midday on a very hot day, seven hours away from the semi-final against Croatia and I’m at the press opening of the keenly awaited Tast Catala on Manchester’s King Street.
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.
Food Review: Comptoir Libanais, Spinningfields, Manchester
It’s not often you’re greeted in a restaurant with “You don’t look like a Helen”.
Review: Kiss Me Kate, Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre
This is a revival of Opera North’s magnificent production of Cole Porter’s Shakespearian parody Kiss me, Kate, staged by the company in 2015.
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: NOW – A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists, CFCCA and HOME, Manchester
There’s an old saying in China that ‘women hold up half the sky’.
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?
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
Are you an individual or an organisation based in the North of England? Why don’t you come to this year’s Northern Soul Awards? It’ll be a brilliant evening – 15th November at Manchester Cathedral. Tickets available here: https://awards.northernsoul.
The Northern Soul Poll
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