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 ...

Rescued! Love Life is the musical that got away. This 1948 collaboration between Kurt Weill, the German composer exiled on Broadway, and Alan Jay Lerner, the future librettist of My Fair Lady, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

No opera is more familiar to the world than “Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s masterpiece about a doomed love triangle. The characters and their foibles are so real and its tunes so memorable that it is one ...

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 ...

David Greed, leader of the Orchestra of Opera North since 1978, is the longest-serving orchestra leader in Europe. As he leads his final production before retirement, he talks to David Denton. David ...

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 ...