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Opera North's Swanhunter Jonathan Dove interview...other people want to see it too.' Jonathan Dove, one of Britain's most prolific opera composers, is talking about his newest work, just premiered by Opera North in Leeds and soon to set off on tour. Swanhunter has been written in... In this article: Opera North, Lemminkainen, Jonathan Dove, Don Giovanni, Pinocchio, Jean Sibelius, The Enchanted Pig, and Alasdair Middleton |
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Wikipedia | October 11, 2009
Meredith Oakes
...play The Editing Process in 1994 at the Royal Court is a major focus of Lesser's book. Oakes also worked as dramaturg on opera productions by Tim Coleman in Dublin and Belfast, and with Tim Hopkins on Forest Murmurs for Opera North in Leeds.
In this article: Meredith Oakes, Wendy Lesser, Stephen Daldry, London, Royal Court Theatre, The Tempest, Fatima Gallaire, Gerald Barry, Odon von Horvath, and Thomas Bernhard
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BBC News | July 11, 2009
No Prima Donna
...have gained the title "popera." However, there is not a hint of pop music in his new work Prima Donna, which is performed by the Leeds based Opera North and is showing at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. The two hour long piece was...
In this article: Rufus Wainwright, Orchestration, Prima Donna, Opera North, Suicide, Norma Desmond, Bastille Day, and Monkey Journey To The West
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Oliver von Dohnanyi
...abroad have included visits to the Salzburg Festival, the ENO (where he has conducted Falstaff and Mefistofele), Opera North in Leeds (Carmen, The Bartered Bride, La Gioconda, Hamlet), the Teatro S Carlo in Naples and opera houses in...
In this article: Oliver von Dohnanyi, The Bartered Bride, Bratislava, Salzburg Festival, Don Giovanni, Naples, Mefistofele, and Faust
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Guardian Unlimited | January 06, 2009
Opera North's gothic space odyssey
...minstrel and magic shows. In the 1970s, it served as a porn cinema. Now Leeds' Victorian assembly rooms have been reinvented once again - as a new space for Opera North. Next week sees the formal opening of the Howard Assembly Room, the...
In this article: Opera North, David Sawer, Paradise Lost, Richard Jones, Alasdair Middleton, Jonathan Dove, and Armando Iannucci
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Daily Mail | November 21, 2008
One in five wives needs a nip or a tuck (say their husbands)
A spokesman for Opera North, the company putting on the production in Leeds, said: 'Plastic surgery is so much more on people's radars and the survey shows a lot of men do actually see it as a viable option to spruce up their wives. The...
In this article: Plastic surgery, Surgery, Liposuction, Breast enlargement, Botox, and Opera North
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Times Online | May 10, 2009
Scottish Opera and Opera North collaborate
...casting by any standards. Opera North's season announcement is timely because there have been distinct rumblings among its loyal Leeds-based patrons about the insubstantiality of the 08/09 programme, with reports of many empty seats...
In this article: Opera North, Scottish Opera, Don Carlos, David McVicar, Richard Farnes, Glasgow, and Don Giovanni
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Opera North to take on Puccini's Tosca
...of Puccini's Tosca, produced by Opera North, is debuted. Slip down a Leeds side street, nip through a heavy door and in a few moments you're in a hangar-sized rehearsal space. There are paintings of the Blessed Virgin on the walls, slices...
In this article: Tosca, Opera North, and Pizza
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Leeds (pronunciation) is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds. The county borough of Leeds was awarded city status in 1893, but in 1974 this status was transferred to the larger new metropolitan borough named "City of Leeds". Thus Leeds, although commonly referred to as a "city", does not have this legal status unless the wider area is being discussed.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the recorded history of Leeds can be traced to the 5th century when the Kingdom of Elmet was covered by the forest of "Loidis", the origin of the name Leeds. During the Industrial Revolution, Leeds developed into a major industrial centre for the production and trade of wool, before emerging as a centre for commerce and higher education, being the location of the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds Trinity and All Saints. Today the city is one of the largest financial and legal centres outside London.
According to the 2001 UK census, the population of the Leeds urban area was 443,247, whereas the wider City of Leeds metropolitan district has a population of 761,100 (mid-2007 estimate) and is one of the eight largest English cities outside London that form the English Core Cities Group. It is at the centre of the West Yorkshire metropolitan county with a population of over 2.1 million.
- Name:
- Leeds
- Region:
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Location Country:
- England
- Latitude:
- 53.7998
- Longitude:
- -1.5482
- Postcode District:
- LS1, LS2, LS3-LS29
- UK Parliament Constituency:
- Elmet, Leeds Central,
- Post Town:
- LEEDS
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