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; ...

Opera North whetted appetites for its 40th year as the region’s major opera company with its “Carnavale,” bringing together on stage young circus artists and opera stars for the fourth year. More than ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leos Janacek’s From the House of the Dead has no coherent narrative and, in John Fulljames’ production, character definition for more than a few principals is limited, with the shaven heads and prison ...

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 ...

Opera North is about to embark upon a four-year climb to the summit of that everest of music dramas Wagner’s Ring. As they prepare the Prologue of the cycle – Das Rheingold – Edward Seckerson talks to ...

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 ...