Opera North
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The ruinous cost of a leap northwards...not to mention the GBP1milion-a-week in running costs, or the ruinous effect that the residency would have on other companies such as Opera North. I hope that Panter and Squire drop this lunatic scheme. They have better things to spend... In this article: New Theatre, Opera North, Oxford, and London |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 20, 2009
Opera North's Swanhunter Jonathan Dove interview
...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
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Guardian Unlimited | November 16, 2009
Swanhunter Opera review
...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
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 16, 2009
Swanhunter Leeds/Rumpelstiltskin Birmingham
...* * */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
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Guardian Unlimited | November 12, 2009
How to write family-friendly opera
...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
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The Australian | October 16, 2009
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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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | September 25, 2009
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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Times Online | May 10, 2009
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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Times of London | February 06, 2009
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 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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