Opera North
Company and Band
The homecoming...director of everything but. There were new plays at the Royal Court Theatre; Shakespeare at the National Theatre; Benjamin Britten for Opera North. In 1998 she was directing Verdi at the Royal Opera House when she was introduced to ABBA's... In this article: Mamma Mia!, William Shakespeare, BBC Television, London, Benjamin Britten, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, and ABBA |
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Times Online | October 12, 2009
The Adventures of Mr Broucek at Leeds Grand Theatre
...Cech's two satirical novels about a Prague landlord's bizarre journeys. What emerged has never quite caught on: this new production by Opera North (co-produced by Scottish Opera) is the UK's first outside London. You'll understand more...
In this article: Leos Janacek, Prague, Leeds Grand Theatre, and Svatopluk Cech
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
Opera North (U.S.A.)
...season of two fully staged operas. Opera North productions are staged at the Lebanon Opera House. Opera North is a member of OPERA America. Opera North was founded as the Light Opera of Norwich in 1981 as an offshoot of the Parish...
In this article: Iolanthe
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | September 29, 2009
Werther at Opera North Leeds review
Werther at Opera North, Leeds, review Massenet's Werther, performed by Opera North, benefits from two terrific performances. Rating: * * * * Powerful: Alice Coote as Charlotte and Paul Nilon as Werther Photo: CLIVE BARDA MAM'ZELLE...
In this article: Werther, Jules Massenet, Charlotte, Heimat, Tristan und Isolde, and Richard Farnes
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Alice Coote: in love with human voices
...triumphs - the role of Charlotte in Massenet's tragedy Werther, which she performs for the first time in a new production at Opera North, opening on September 26. In lesser throats, this opera can be a maudlin sob story about a...
In this article: Carmen, Christa Ludwig, Breast cancer, Orfeo ed Euridice, La clemenza di Tito, and Ariodante
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Daily Express | September 05, 2009
Autumn of devilishly good offerings
...do evil. The Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, of crossover opera and pop fame, gives two concerts, in London and Birmingham, this month. Opera North s new production of Janacek s bizarre The Adventures Of Mr Broucek, in its first UK staging...
In this article: Tristan und Isolde, Le Grand Macabre, Bryn Terfel, Rupert Goold, La Fura dels Baus, Carmen, Welsh National Opera, Tosca, and Turandot
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Opera North/Aida at the Bregenz Festival, Austria
Navigation - link to other main sections from here If some of Opera North's own subscribers fretted over the company's recent run of light operetta, the Bregenz Festival's glitzy audience (sequins de rigueur for the 11am shows) has no...
In this article: David Sawer, Of Thee I Sing, and George Gershwin
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Prima Donna at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
All involved - the director, Daniel Kramer, the designer, Antony McDonald, the conductor, Pierre-Andre Valade, and the orchestra of Opera North - seem to have been infected by Wainwright's hesitancy and lack of purpose. If the score...
In this article: Prima Donna and Rufus Wainwright
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Scottish Opera and Opera North collaborate
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Scottish Opera and Opera North collaborate Audiences in Glasgow, Leeds and touring circuits will see same staging of Janacek comedy while David McVicar revives Mozart Our two...
In this article: Scottish Opera, Don Carlos, David McVicar, Leeds, Richard Farnes, Glasgow, and Don Giovanni
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Opera North to take on Puccini's Tosca
...herself. " It is, in other words, an opera. And today, there is less than a week before this version 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...
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Opera North unveils its new venue the Howard Assembly Room at the Grand Theatre in Leeds
Opera North unveils its new venue - the Howard Assembly Room - at the Grand Theatre in Leeds Opera North's Dominic Gray has developed an exhilerating programme of opera for the new venue at the Leeds Grand Theatre; the Howard Assembly...
In this article: Leeds, Grand Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Jonathan Dove
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Opera North is a British opera company. Based in Leeds, England the Company's home theatre is the Leeds Grand Theatre, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays and the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. It also visits Sadler's Wells Theatre, London and, less regularly, the Bradford Alhambra, the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, and other venues. The Company's orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, regularly performs and records in its own right. Operas are performed either in English or in the original language of the libretto, in the latter case usually with subtitles.
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