Opera North
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Music
Eliza Carthy and the Restitution – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Eliza Carthy is folk music royalty. Her father, Martin, one of the more innovative players of the 1980s and 1990s,…
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Opera
Opera North: Orpheus – The Lowry, Salford
Composers: Claudio Monteverdi and Jasdeep Singh Degun Original libretto: Alessandro Striggio The myth of Orpheus is the subject of the…
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Central
Opera North: La Traviata – Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Director: Alessandro Talevi Conductor: Jonathan Webb Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata is one of his most famous and…
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Justin Adams and Mauro Durante – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
One of the things about Opera North’s programming for the Howard Assembly Room is you never know what’s coming next…
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Music
The Doric String Quartet – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Anyone who has read Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music knows the level of involvement, the homogeneity, of a string quartet.…
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Film
FILMusic: The Phantom of the Opera – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
The Phantom of the Opera is now best known as a blockbuster musical, but Gaston Leroux’s novel was first brought…
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North East & Yorkshire
Orfeo ed Euridice – Opera North at Grand Theatre, Leeds
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck Conductor: Antony Hermus As Stuart Leeks points out in the programme, the myth of Orpheus and…
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Music
Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
It may be the name, though The Darkening is simply the local term for “twilight”, but advance publicity tended to…
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