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The Board of Trustees of award-winning national opera company in the North of England, Opera North, announced the appointment of Laura Canning as its new General Director & CEO. She succeeds outgoing ...

Ran Arthur Braun and Rob Kearley’s updating is broadly contemporary but full of anachronistic details – the chorus could pass for Mad Men extras, though gazing at iPads and occasionally filming ...

The gestation of Janáček‘s first opera in 1904 caused him no end of headaches, but modern audiences needn’t fear that it’ll do the same to them. Jenůfa fuses rich, redolent music with a compelling ...

Opera North has become Classic FM's Opera Company in the UK. The company is among the largest arts organisations outside of London, staging productions every year that range from the most popular ...

LEBANON, N.H. — As the only company able to produce live summer opera in 2020 — with carefully distanced “patron pods” on the grass and Plexiglas-shielded orchestra and singers — Opera North announces ...

That approach was also used for their Turandot two years ago, and now method and team are reunited as Sir Richard Armstrong conducts Aida with Annabel Arden as director and design by Joanna Parker.

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 ...

Take advantage of the offers ahead of the company’s 2026 season as the perfect stocking filler for first-time enthusiasts. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can ...

There are several reasons, starting with the title (originally “Ruddygore”, until Victorian sensibilities objected), why Ruddigore has never been among the most popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan ...

This month marks the long-awaited return of opera to the north west as Opera North comes to The Lowry, Salford, on its first full live season and tour since the pandemic. One of the most popular ...

Opera North has confirmed it is pursuing a "leaner, more agile structure" with each of its departments under the microscope for "change". The Leeds-based organisation is undergoing an organisational ...