Some years back I spent a weekend at a farm outside Lisbon. It was run by Maria, a widow in her 60s, with the strength of a bull and the wit of a fox. She told me about her yearly holiday to Spain with her pals. Knowing the...
Read MoreI’ve always thought the entrance to Australasia to be both imposing and secretive. If you’ve not noticed it, it’s the glass triangle in front of Armani in Manchester’s Spinningfields. A glass portal to an underground...
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...
Read MoreI was going to start with that old OperaWatch standby: “It’s been a quiet time here at OW offices.” However, since those drunks from Hamiltonic moved in down the corridor at Northern Soul Towers, it’s been anything but. As...
Read MoreAbout a third way of the way through Opera North’s Spring season we moved away from the 18th Century absurdism of late Mozart to the early days of the 20th Century, and three works made in the shadow of the First World War. As...
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