Tag Archives: The Lowry

Writer: Music by Franz Lehár Book/Lyrics: Victor Léon and Leo Stein  Adaptor: Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Giles Havergala Director: Giles Havergal Conductor: Martin Andre Reviewer: Dave Cunningham For their current visit to The Lowry opera North seem to have discovered relevance. A highly contemporary interpretation of Tosca is followed by a sharply up-to-date adaptation of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow by Kit ...

Composer: Giacomo Puccini with Librettist Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Director: Edward Dick Conductor: Antony Hermus Reviewer: Dave Cunningham   Opera is an art form that demands grand themes and high passion to be most effective. Well, stories do not come more melodramatic than the doomed love affair between the diva Tosca and the painter Cavaradossi. Tosca (soprano Giselle Allen) lives ...

Writer: Alan Bennett Director: Philip Franks Reviewer: Abbie Rippon ‘Why must a play be such a performance?’ argues Neil, the writer of Caliban’s Day. The cast are rehearsing for an upcoming production which explores the life of WH Auden and his collaborations with Benjamin Britten, and The Habit of Art is the play within which this play falls. Confused yet? Don’t be. ...

Reviewer: Matthew Forrest It’s hard to believe that 20 years ago, one of the nation’s favourite food writers Nigella Lawson had her first book published How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food. The food bible changed not just how we cook but how we view food as well and has been a staple of bookshelves and kitchens across the ...

Music: Pascal Dusapin Directors: Michael McCarthy & Caroline Finn Choreography: Caroline Finn Reviewer: Peter Jacobs Passion is a 2009 opera by French composer Pascal Dusapin that adds a contemporary twist to the legend of Orpheus, presented as a work for body and voice: a Dance Opera. This is a collaboration (their first) between Music Theatre Wales and London Sinfonietta, conducted by ...

Writer: Hannah Moscovitch Composer: Ben Caplan and Christian Barry Director: Christian Barry Reviewer: Lizz Clark Headlines refer to 'swarms of immigrants', the refugee crisis grinds on, and politicians euphemistically champion 'British values'. The award-winning Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is painfully relevant in Brexit Britain. Telling the story of playwright Hannah Moscovitch's grandparents, who arrived in Canada fleeing the pogroms ...

Book, Music and Lyrics – Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Director: Matt Ryan Reviewer: Kate Goerner The musical version of the famous true story of the Yorkshire Women’s Institute members who stripped off returns to The Lowry, where it enjoyed a pre-West End run two years ago. Back then it was called simply The Girls- but following its West End ...

Choreography: Jose Agudo, Rafael Amargo, Nahid Siddiqui Reviewer: Peter Jacobs There are politicians who claim that globalisation is some new damaging trend that undermines the nation-state and threatens national identity. Silk Road is a timely reminder that globalisation is as old a human civilisation: the Vikings, the Egyptians, the Romans were all globalisers. And the ancient silk and spice routes from ...