Composer/librettist: Isabella Gellis Director/designer: Jack Furness Musical Director: Finnegan Downie Dear We are all used to operas with unlikely stories,…
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Writer/Director: Jonathan Ainscough Conductor: Jack Ridley Opera North ticks all the boxes in this full-house children’s matinee at the Grand…
Guitarist Tom Ollendorff’s rise has been meteoric: two years ago he brought out his first CD, now he visits Leeds…
Original Director: Phyllida Lloyd Revival Director: James Hurley What is it about a story of love and loss and struggling…
Composer: George Frideric Handel Conductor: Johanna Soller Director: Olivia Fuchs Handel wrote Susanna as an oratorio, with no stage action. Opera North,…
Composer: Judith Weir Conductor: Nicholas Shaw Director: Rosie Kat Opera North is attacking on all fronts at the moment. Not…
Composer: Richard Wagner Librettist: Richard Wagner Director: Annabel Arden Conductor: Garry Walker Reviewer: Richard Hall Wagner’s grand opera is based…
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Emanuel Schikander with English translation by Jeremy Sams Director: James Brining With a score…