Georgie Burgess reviews Opera North’s production of Katya Kabanova, on at the Leeds Grand on select dates until the 27th of February. Here I was, back again to see my second opera and it was […]
Haunting and Heartwarming: Opera North’s Silent Night at Leeds Town Hall
The Christmas truce of 1914 has to be one of the most remarkable events in the history of mankind; we’re talking about a story in which thousands of valorous men left their trenches to unite […]
Not Such Quiet Girls: A Contemporary Opera
Opera North’s Not Such Quiet Girls is a contemporary story of the first world war and a contemporary stance on opera. It completely subverted my expectation of the art form, of the singing in a […]
Tosca: An Opera for Right Now
Georgie Burgess reviews Opera North’s production of Tosca, an opera written by Giacomo Puccini that first premiered in 1900. Too many people assume the Opera is not for them. I believe Tosca will prove them […]
Glad I Crashed The Wedding: OperaSoc’s Marriage of Figaro
LUU Opera Society’s performance of The Marriage of Figaro is a vibrant source of laughter, lechery and love. OperaSoc’s Marriage of Figaro is a refreshingly styled and hilariously adapted take on Mozart’s masterpiece. Cramming witty remarks and […]
Demystifying Going to the Opera
‘Realistically, tickets with only be unaffordable if you refuse to see a ballet anywhere else but London’s Royal Opera House’. Fake news!! This well-intentioned sentiment is from ‘Dance like nobody’s watching? – Why students should […]
Preview: Opera Soc's The Magic Flute
From 10th – 13th February 2016, performance society Opera Soc will be performing a brand new adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. However, this will be no ordinary re-telling of the classic opera as director […]
Review: Opera North –The Barber of Seville (Gioachino Rossini)
It’s a fact well known that truly timeless productions rarely persist in the modern age, yet Giles Havergal’s staging of The Barber of Seville with the Opera North does just that. Approaching the thirtieth anniversary […]
Jethro Tull, The Rock Opera Preview
Jethro Tull, the seventeenth-century British agriculturalist often credited with the invention of the horse-drawn seed drill, was such an inspiration to a 1970s British progressive rock band that they named themselves after him. Ian Anderson, […]
Theatre | La Boheme Launch – A night on the town
Image: Opera North Last week Opera North held the launch event for their new Under 30’s membership scheme at the Leeds Grand Theatre with a performance of Puccini’s famous opera La Bohème, aiming to inspire […]
Theatre | La Boheme – This 1950's set production has it all
Image: Opera North La Bohème Opera North 29th April – 17th May Leeds Grand Theatre Puccini’s La Bohème is perhaps one of the best known opera: an heartbreaking tale of young love and loss set […]
Opera|Girl of the Golden West – The very first spaghetti western
Image: Opera North Critic Sir Christopher Frayling said that ‘…it was Giacomo Puccini who wrote the first Spaghetti Western worthy of the name…’ and it’s a proper old fashioned western of saloon brawls, poker games […]