Summerfest 2024 marks Opera North's 42nd season and a decade's investment in its journey to create a national park for the arts with the National Park Service at Blow-Me-Down Farm. Returning ...

Laura Canning, General Director, Opera North, says, “This year, we’re championing the next generation of talent as we welcome our Youth Company to the main stage to open the season in Leeds. We’ll be ...

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Puccini’s “La Bohème” is one of the biggest “blockbusters” in opera, but that’s not the only reason that Opera North chose it as the anchor of its Summerfest 2021, being presented July 16-Aug. 1 at ...

Miguel de Cervantes created “Don Quixote,” the original “Man of La Mancha” in 1605 — 420 years ago — yet tilting at windmills seems more important than ever. “I saw ‘Man of La Mancha’ at my high ...

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, ...

Opera North celebrates its 42nd year with three beloved works of musical theater, from the 19th-century ribald satirical comedy Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” to one of the icons of Romantic ...

Practical considerations, namely an orchestra pit too small to accommodate Wagnerian forces, have led Opera North to mount their Ring Cycle as a semi-staged production in Leeds’s spectacular Victorian ...

Not all the directorial decisions work equally well, but we’ll get to one of those later. Bizet’s score has been trimmed slightly and we don’t get all the dialogue, but the cuts mean that the evening ...