Opera North today announces a year of cultural encounters and myths retold, in eight productions for its 2022-23 season. The season begins in September 2022 with a revival of Alessandro Talevi's well ...

Audiences will be treated to unforgettable music from across the saga, including the Main Title, Princess Leia's Theme, The Imperial March, Yoda's Theme, Throne Room, Across the Stars, and more.

I find it exciting to treat iconic works like this because the performances offer a new way to experience classic opera. When you get rid of the proscenium arch, you feel very close to the singers; ...

If Hell were as much fun as it is in the Opera North’s production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus and the Underworld,” we’d be making reservations. After all, Mount Olympus — home of Jupiter and the good, ...

Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto is a fun concerto to watch – ignore the soloist, and you notice percussionists doing entertaining things with tambourines The more languorous passages in the second ...

The gestation of Janáček‘s first opera in 1904 caused him no end of headaches, but modern audiences needn’t fear that it’ll do the same to them. Jenůfa fuses rich, redolent music with a compelling ...

Take advantage of the offers ahead of the company’s 2026 season as the perfect stocking filler for first-time enthusiasts. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can ...

Opera North announces a brave new Autumn season as general director Richard Mantle and music director Richard Farnes lay out their ambitions for the coming year and beyond. Farnes speaks of his pride ...

No opera is more familiar to the world than “Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s masterpiece about a doomed love triangle. The characters and their foibles are so real and its tunes so memorable that it is one ...

LEBANON, N.H. — As the only company able to produce live summer opera in 2020 — with carefully distanced “patron pods” on the grass and Plexiglas-shielded orchestra and singers — Opera North announces ...