Opera North

...why a womanising, folkloric Finn makes the perfect hero for his latest, family opera A fine Finnish: scene from Swanhunter by Opera North 'We've never written down to an audience. If we write the show we want to see, usually other...

In this article: Lemminkainen, Jonathan Dove, Don Giovanni, Pinocchio, Jean Sibelius, The Enchanted Pig, and Alasdair Middleton

...to the main stage. Curiously, Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton appear to be heading the opposite way. In 2007, Opera North had an enormous success with The Adventures of Pinocchio; a three-hour spectacular with full...

In this article: Jonathan Dove, Lemminkainen, Alasdair Middleton, Jean Sibelius, Polystyrene, The Adventures of Pinocchio, and Pinocchio

...* * */Rumpelstiltskin * * * * Published: 11:37AM GMT 16 Nov 2009 Next door to the studio theatre presenting the premiere of Opera North's Swanhunter, the big auditorium was packing 'em in for High School Musical 2. Indeed, the...

In this article: Jonathan Dove, High School Musical 2, Birmingham, DVD, and Alasdair Middleton

...extreme sound opera has to offer: trained singers at the top of their voices. Alasdair and I felt it was time to do something different. Opera North invited us to write a touring chamber opera for children and families, in some way about...

In this article: Alasdair Middleton, Maltesers, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Elk, Siegfried, The Cunning Little Vixen, and Pinocchio

...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

...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

...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

...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

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

...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...

In this article: Tosca, Leeds, and Pizza