LA BOHEME – LEEDS GRAND – Oct 18th 2025
One of the things Phyllida Lloyd CBE did prior to going famously all Abba-dabba-doo-Waterloo with her 1999 onstage Mamma Mia! and 2008 big screen version was to direct Opera North’s La Boheme in ...
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THE FLYING DUTCHMAN – Leeds Grand – Feb 1st 2025
Opera North’s 2025 reinterpretation of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman is a strange concoction but a fascinating one. Its analogy of homeless refugees to the Dutch seaman condemned to wander ...
Opera North’s A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT’S DREAM at LEEDS GRAND – Oct 12th 2024
Joyously brilliant! Wow! The heavenly magic of Britten’s unique music, played and sung to perfection, marries so superbly with the laugh-out-loud comedy and fun of the piece and all is delivered ...
FALSTAFF – OPERA NORTH – LEEDS GRAND THEATRE SEPT 28th 2023
Warmth, colour, breezy humour and charming loveliness ride high in Opera North’s Falstaff, in which the fine, rounded baritone – and even more rounded belly – of main man Henry Waddington give f ...