Matthew Stiff
- North East & Yorkshire
Opera North’s Cavalleria Rusticana/Aleko – Leeds Grand Theatre
Music: Pietro Mascagni/Sergei Rachmaninov Libretto: Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti/Guido Menasci/Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Conductor: Antony Hermus Director: Karolina Sofulak Both operas were written within…
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Opera North’s Tosca – Leeds Grand Theatre
Music: Giacomo Puccini Director: Edward Dick Conductor: Garry Walker A mighty percussive chord, the curtain flies up and a ragged…
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Opera North: La Traviata – Leeds Grand Theatre
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Director: Alessandra Talevi Conductor: Jonathan Webb The curtain rises on the Prelude to La Traviata, hushed strings…
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The Selfish Giant – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Composer: John Barber Librettist: Jessica Duchen Director: Emma Black This was a second encounter in three days with the remarkable…
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Eugene Onegin – Opera Holland Park, London
Composer: Tchaikovsky Director: Julia Burbach Conductor: Lada Valešová Opera Holland Park’s Eugene Onegin is an appealing production, beautifully staged, with…
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Carmen – Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre
Composer: Georges Bizet Text: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy Conductor: Garry Walker Director: Edward Dick For some reason Carmen is…
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OPERA NORTH: Fidelio – The Lowry, Salford
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven Libretto: Joseph Sonnleithner, with revisions by Stephan von Breuning and Georg Friedrich Treitschke Conductor: Paul Daniel…
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Opera North: Fidelio – Leeds Town Hall
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Conductor: Paul Daniel On a remarkable evening in Leeds Town Hall, we all came stumbling into…
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