Opera North today announces a year of cultural encounters and myths retold, in eight productions for its 2022-23 season. The season begins in September 2022 with a revival of Alessandro Talevi's well ...

Audiences will be treated to unforgettable music from across the saga, including the Main Title, Princess Leia's Theme, The Imperial March, Yoda's Theme, Throne Room, Across the Stars, and more.

I find it exciting to treat iconic works like this because the performances offer a new way to experience classic opera. When you get rid of the proscenium arch, you feel very close to the singers; ...

Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto is a fun concerto to watch – ignore the soloist, and you notice percussionists doing entertaining things with tambourines The more languorous passages in the second ...

Opera North announces a brave new Autumn season as general director Richard Mantle and music director Richard Farnes lay out their ambitions for the coming year and beyond. Farnes speaks of his pride ...

‘The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved tale, has become nearly ubiquitous, selling some 140 million copies worldwide. The surreal fable is not only irresistible, it is deeply probing.

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 ...

Opera North is about to embark upon a four-year climb to the summit of that everest of music dramas Wagner’s Ring. As they prepare the Prologue of the cycle – Das Rheingold – Edward Seckerson talks to ...