This is the first of two parts. Opera North, based in the West Yorkshire city of Leeds, staged a week of performances November 30-December 7 to commemorate the end of World War I. Included were two ...

Outstanding orchestral playing can be found outside London, Manchester and Birmingham. Unlike those cities, Leeds doesn’t have a purpose-built modern concert hall suitable for large-scale concerts, ...

There were moments during young Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska’s performance with the Orchestra of Opera North when you could have sworn she’d picked up the score of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three ...

Phyllida Lloyd‘s production of Peter Grimes in 2006 was widely regarded as definitive and Opera North has wisely built on this success – and the remarkable level of teamwork achieved – by keeping ...

The conductor Carlo Rizzi said that if he could save only one opera from destruction, it would be La bohème, because it is “…the perfect opera score.” No doubt many would agree with him, and it was ...

Melanie Eskenazi is uplifted by this wonderful concert staging in the most trying of times. This month is the 250 th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and he is nobly served by this austere, finely ...

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THERE’S not much to the story of Massenet’s most-performed opera, which he based on Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Our romantic hero falls hopelessly in love with Charlotte, who is ...

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HAVING established base camp over the last four years with each of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung operas in turn, Opera North is now mounting its assault on Everest itself: the complete cycle in a ...