2015 – 2016 Kiss Me, Kate Cole Porter
The Barber of Seville
Gioachino Rossini
Jenufa
Leoš Janáček
Andrea Chénier
Umberto Giordano
Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
L’elisir d’amore Gaetano Donizetti
Pleasure Mark Simpson
Into the Woods Stephen Sondheim
Der Ring des Nibelungen Richard Wagner
Welcome Richard Mantle General Director
A year that begins with Cole Porter and concludes with Richard Wagner – taking in Janáček, Mozart, Sondheim and a brand new work along the way – is evidence of Opera North’s continuing ambition to offer the broadest possible range of artistic experiences to audiences of all tastes. Our six complete cycles of Wagner’s Ring in the spring and summer of 2016 mark the conclusion of Richard Farnes’ twelve-year term as Music Director of Opera North and were announced earlier in the year to considerable fanfare in the media. Richard’s contribution to the life of the Company is incalculable, and there can be no more fitting conclusion to his illustrious tenure than these performances. Whilst a complete Ring cycle is undoubtedly a unique landmark in the life of any opera company, there is much to savour before we conclude our Ring odyssey next summer. Over the past several years we have staged works by many of the classic American musical dramatists and have long wanted to add Cole Porter to this list. Porter was an eminent contributor to the Great American Songbook long before he wrote his masterpiece, Kiss Me, Kate, which is just the sort of character-driven piece to which Opera North’s core artistic ensembles of Chorus and Orchestra will do full justice. From a new production of a classic American operetta to three comic operas in revivals that can be considered classics in their own right. Our productions of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore have been enjoyed by audiences throughout the North and further afield; the latter two, in particular, demonstrating Opera North’s international reach - Così has played at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival in New York and Elisir at Spain’s Ópera de Oviedo.
It’s not all comedy, of course. In the autumn we return to the first of Janáček’s great operas, the intensely moving Jenůfa, in a major revival of an acclaimed production by Tom Cairns. Then, in the New Year, we stage a brand new production of Andrea Chénier directed by Annabel Arden, bringing Giordano’s verismo masterpiece to Opera North audiences for the first time. It’s a work ripe for reappraisal, and it will be fascinating to discover how this piece, set in a time of revolution, speaks to our own turbulent era. Two new productions in the spring highlight Opera North’s commitment to forging creative partnerships. Pleasure, a new opera by Mark Simpson and Melanie Challenger, receives its world premiere in the Howard Assembly Room in Leeds in May. This will be the fourth new work jointly commissioned and produced through a partnership between Aldeburgh Music, The Royal Opera and Opera North which nurtures opera-makers of the future. Then in June we join forces with West Yorkshire Playhouse for a major collaboration in which we will co-produce Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods in the Quarry Theatre in a new production by the Playhouse’s Artistic Director James Brining. All this adds up to what promises to be one of our most excitingly diverse seasons yet. I look forward to sharing with you the unique gift of live performance as often as possible in the year ahead.
Music
New production
Libretto
Kiss Me, Kate
Cole Porter
Sam and Bella Spewack First performance
New York, 1948
Cast includes: Lilli Vanessi Jeni Bern Fred Graham Quirijn de Lang Gunmen Joseph Shovelton /
John Savournin Conductor David Charles Abell Director Jo Davies Choreographer Will Tuckett Set and Costume Designer
Colin Richmond Lighting Designer Natasha Chivers
Lasts approximately 3 hours Sung in English A co-production with Welsh National Opera
‘Another Op’nin, Another Show’ … Opera North’s momentous 2015/16 kicks off to a sparkling start with a classic American musical comedy. Set both on and off-stage during the production of a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, the plot revolves around the tangled love lives of actor-manager Fred Graham, his leading lady (but ex-wife) Lilli Vanessi, ingénue Lois Lane and her boyfriend Bill – not to mention a couple of gangsters who somehow get caught up in the show. Studded with gems as various as ‘So in Love’, ‘Wunderbar’, ‘Always True to You in My Fashion’ and ‘Too Darn Hot’, Kiss Me, Kate is a deliciously witty confection graced by what is probably Cole Porter’s richest, most accomplished theatrical score. Opera North’s new production is conducted by David Charles Abell, who has prepared a new critical edition of the score, and directed by Jo Davies, who is responsible for a string of recent Opera North successes, including Ruddigore, Carousel and The Marriage of Figaro. There is surely no more enjoyable way to brush up your Shakespeare than with this show.
Music
Gioachino Rossini
Libretto
Cesare Sterbini First performance
Rome, 1816
Cast includes: Rosina Katie Bray Count Almaviva Nicholas Watts Figaro Gavan Ring Doctor Bartolo Eric Roberts Don Basilio Alastair Miles /
Dean Robinson Berta Victoria Sharp Conductor Stuart Stratford /
Timothy Burke Director Giles Havergal Set and Costume Designer
Russell Craig Lighting Designer Gerry Jenkinson English translation
Robert David MacDonald Lasts approximately 3 hours Sung in English
The Barber of Seville Rosina is rich, beautiful and in love with a dashing young Count. However, her elderly guardian, Doctor Bartolo, has designs on her himself, and does everything he can to put obstacles in the way of their happiness. But with the help of the sharp-witted Figaro, true love finally triumphs. Tuneful and vivacious, Rossini’s score contains one irresistibly catchy number after another, ranging from the fireworks of Figaro’s ‘Largo al factotum’ to the seductive beauty of the Count’s ‘Ecco, ridente’. Giles Havergal’s handsome period production delivers pure enjoyment with bags of style. This revival features three exceptionally engaging young singers in Nicholas Watts (Count), Katie Bray (Rosina) and Gavan Ring (Figaro). They are joined by one of the UK’s most distinguished operatic basses, Alastair Miles, as Basilio, and this classic production wouldn’t be complete without the comic genius of Eric Roberts as Bartolo. ‘The sort of event to which one could take reluctant opera-goers and stand a good chance of converting them to the habit.’ The Guardian
Music
Leoš Janáček Libretto
Leoš Janáček
Jenufa
First performance
Brno, 1904
Cast includes: Jenůfa Ylva Kihlberg Kostelnička Buryjovka
Susan Bickley Grandmother Buryjovka
Elizabeth Sikora Števa Buryja
Ed Lyon / Daniel Norman Laca Klemeň David Butt Philip Foreman Dean Robinson Karolka Daisy Brown Conductor Aleksandar Marković Director Tom Cairns Set and Costume Designer
Tom Cairns Lighting Designer Wolfgang Göbbel Choreographer Aletta Collins English translation
Otakar Kraus and Edward Downes Lasts approximately 2 hours 45 mins Sung in English with English titles
This intense story of love, jealousy and sacrifice is by turns harrowing, heart-wrenching and starkly tragic. It took Janáček ten years to complete his first great opera, and in the final year of its composition he witnessed his own daughter’s painful illness and early death. His soul-piercing score is laced with the suffering caused by this event. Tom Cairns returns to direct a production acclaimed for its beautifully simple staging and sheer emotional power. A world-class cast includes Susan Bickley (Waltraute, Götterdämmerung) as the Kostelnicka and Elizabeth Sikora (Salud’s Grandmother, La vida breve) as Grandmother Buryjkova. In the title role is the Swedish soprano Ylva Kihlberg, who gave a memorably powerful performance as Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case for the Company in 2012. ‘No performance of Jenůfa has been successful unless one leaves the theatre feeling as if one has been emotionally put through a wringer. That criterion was powerfully achieved by Opera North’s staging, produced and designed by Tom Cairns in the most imaginative and poetic manner … a triumph for all concerned. The Sunday Telegraph
Music
Umberto Giordano
Libretto
Luigi Illica First performance
Milan, 1896
Cast includes: Andrea Chénier Rafael Rojas Carlo Gérard Robert Hayward Maddalena de Coigny
Annemarie Kremer Bersi Anna Dennis Contessa di Coigny / Madelon
Fiona Kimm Roucher Phillip Rhodes L’Abate / an ‘Incroyable’
Daniel Norman Mathieu Jeremy Peaker Conductor Oliver von Dohnányi Director Annabel Arden Set and Costume Designer
Joanna Parker Lighting Designer Peter Mumford Movement Director Tim Claydon
Lasts approximately 2 hours 45 mins Sung in Italian with English titles Supported by a generous gift from Terry and Liz Bramall
New production
Andrea Chénier Based (very loosely) on the life of the French poet André Chénier (1762 – 94) and set at the time of the French Revolution and the ensuing Terror, Giordano’s stirring opera has always been warmly embraced by audiences for its open-hearted emotionalism and ardent dramatic lyricism. For many, Andrea Chénier encapsulates the very essence of Italian opera and the title role is one of the most prized in the tenor repertoire. It’s not hard to hear why when you listen to arias such as ‘Un di all’azzuro spazio’, ‘Come un bel dì di maggio’ and the closing duet for Chénier and the opera’s heroine Maddalena, whose love endures even in the face of death. In the best verismo tradition, Giordano also colours his score with tunes associated with the French Revolution, such as ‘Ça ira’ and the ‘Marseillaise’. Annabel Arden’s new production for Opera North explores the chaos of revolution and examines the role of the artist in a time of political turmoil. Her cast includes Rafael Rojas (Chénier) and Robert Hayward (Carlo Gérard), who last squared up to each other at Opera North in The Girl of the Golden West, and Annemarie Kremer (Maddalena), who gave an unforgettable performance in the title role of Norma for the Company in 2012.
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto
Lorenzo da Ponte First performance
Così fan tutte or, The School for Lovers
Fiordiligi Máire Flavin Dorabella Helen Sherman Ferrando Nicholas Watts Guglielmo Gavan Ring Despina Ellie Laugharne Don Alfonso William Dazeley Conductor Jac van Steen /
Anthony Kraus Director Tim Albery Set and Costume Designer
Tobias Hoheisel Lighting Designer David Finn
Lasts approximately 3 hours Sung in English
Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto
Felice Romani First performance
Milan, 1832
Vienna, 1790
Cast includes:
Music
It starts with a casual bet. The wily old cynic Don Alfonso wagers that the fiancées of two young men, complacent in their romantic notions of love, won’t stay faithful for a minute if put to the test. It sounds harmless enough and, anyway, the lovers are entirely sure of themselves. But cruelty is inherent in this game of love and chance.
Cast includes:
It’s difficult to think of an opera that contains more music of sheer beauty than Così fan tutte – or that has a libretto that is more unsettling. The plot is a work of supreme artifice, yet the opera charts the boundaries of real and feigned emotion, trust and deception, loyalty and desire, with unsparing accuracy and truthfulness.
Set and Costume Designer
Tim Albery, whose recent work at Opera North includes The Coronation of Poppea (2014), directs a fresh young cast in a production set firmly in the Age of Reason. ‘Tim Albery leaves me stunned at the thoughtfulness of his production, and at the completeness with which he has got his cast to realise it. ... Go to this production: there are lots of good Cosìs, but this is in a class apart.’ The Spectator
Adina Gabriela Iştoc Nemorino Jung Soo Yun Belcore Duncan Rock Dr. Dulcamara Richard Burkhard Giannetta Fflur Wyn Conductor Tobias Ringborg Director Daniel Slater
Robert Innes Hopkins Lighting Designer Simon Mills Choreographer Tim Claydon
Lasts approximately 2 hours 30 mins Sung in Italian with English titles
L’elisir d’amore The Elixir of Love
L’elisir d’amore is the ‘male Cinderella’ tale of Nemorino, ineffectual but good-hearted, and his love for the very self-assured Adina, who fancies the experienced charmer Belcore. When the quack Dr. Dulcamara comes to town touting a miraculous ‘love potion’, Nemorino thinks his prayers have been answered. But is it really the potion that makes him suddenly irresistible to all the girls in the village? Daniel Slater’s sunny 1950s-style production, complete with hot-air balloon and Vespas, is a perfect fit for Donizetti’s funny and moving comedy. The cast is headed by four singers who’ve each made a strong impression in recent Opera North productions: Gabriela Iştoc and Duncan Rock as, respectively, Mimì and Marcello in La Bohème (2014); Jung Soo Yun, Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth (2014); and Richard Burkhard in the title role of The Marriage of Figaro (2015). ‘Daniel Slater’s production ... is a Felliniesque vision of scooters, cappuccino machines and champagne fountains, set on a sun-washed hotel terrace overlooking the sea. Seeing it again is like revisiting a perfect holiday spot...’ The Guardian
Music
World Premiere
Libretto
Pleasure
Mark Simpson
Melanie Challenger First performance
Leeds, 2016
Cast includes: Val Lesley Garrett Ensemble Psappha Conductor Nicholas Kok Director Tim Albery Set and Costume Designer
Leslie Travers Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth
Lasts approximately 1 hour 15 mins Sung in English A collaboration between Aldeburgh Music, The Royal Opera, and Opera North Supported by the
Opera North Future Fund Performances: Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Thu 28 & Fri 29 April 2016 Liverpool Playhouse
Wed 4 May 2016 Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
Sat 7 May 2016 Lyric Hammersmith
Wed 11 – Sat 14 May 2016
Val works as an attendant in the toilets at Pleasure, a hedonistic gay club in the north of England. For years, Val has been both a shoulder to cry on and a confidante to the club’s clientele. She is much-loved, but viewed as an enigma. Why is she still there? Why does she never leave? When Nathan, a beautiful and unpredictable young man, arrives in Pleasure and leaves a gift for Val, it marks the beginning of an emotional and violent night. Pleasure is the fourth new chamber opera commissioned and produced as part of a threeyear partnership between Aldeburgh Music, The Royal Opera and Opera North. The music is by Mark Simpson, who was BBC Young Composer of the Year in 2006, the same year that he won BBC Young Musician of the Year as a clarinettist – a unique achievement. Lesley Garrett returns to the Company to create the role of Val in this world premiere production. New music ensemble Psappha is conducted by Nicholas Kok, and Pleasure is directed by Tim Albery and designed Leslie Travers, whose recent work together for Opera North includes Giulio Cesare (2012) and Otello (2013).
Music
Stephen Sondheim
Book by
James Lapine First performance
New York, 1987
Director James Brining
Lasts approximately 2 hours 45 mins Sung in English A co-production between Opera North and West Yorkshire Playhouse Performances: Quarry Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse
June 2016
New production
Into the Woods Be careful what you wish for … and of the lengths you’re willing to go to get it. In Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated musical, characters from several well-known fairy tales collide. And for Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and Red Riding Hood, together with a childless baker and his wife, ‘Happy Ever After’ turns out to be far from the end of the story. Sondheim’s revered wit and intelligence are everywhere evident in his dazzling music and lyrics. The show also digs deep, packing a powerful emotional punch in its exploration of themes of wish-fulfilment, growing up and the relationship of parents and children. This new production of Into the Woods is a major collaboration between Opera North and West Yorkshire Playhouse, two of Leeds’ leading arts organizations. It will be directed by James Brining, Artistic Director of West Yorkshire Playhouse, in the Quarry Theatre, with a cast drawn largely from the hugely versatile Chorus of Opera North, part of the Company’s core artistic ensemble.
Music
Richard Wagner
Libretto
Richard Wagner First performance
Das Rheingold
The Rhinegold
Bayreuth, 1876
Cast includes: Woglinde Jeni Bern Wellgunde Madeleine Shaw Flosshilde Sarah Castle Alberich Jo Pohlheim Mime Richard Roberts Wotan Michael Druiett Fricka Yvonne Howard Loge Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke Fasolt James Creswell Fafner Mats Almgren Freia Giselle Allen Erda Ceri Williams Donner Andrew Foster-Williams Froh Mark Le Brocq Conductor Richard Farnes Concert Staging and Design Concept Peter Mumford Lighting and Projection Designer
Peter Mumford Associate Director Joe Austin
Lasts approximately 2 hours 30 mins with no interval Sung in German with English titles
Music
Richard Wagner
Libretto
Richard Wagner First performance
Die Walküre
The Valkyrie
Bayreuth, 1876
The Ring begins with music that evokes the very dawn of time. From this moment we are plunged into the watery twilight beneath the river Rhine, transported to misty mountain-tops and to the depths of gloomy Nibelheim, before crossing the rainbow bridge that leads to Valhalla, fortress home of the gods. Set in a world populated by dwarfs and giants, gods and river-maidens, Wagner’s ‘preliminary evening’ to the Ring sets the whole epic cycle in motion in thrilling fashion.
Cast includes:
‘Anyone disappointed that Opera North’s performances of Wagner’s Ring ... would be given in concert, rather than a full staging, will have had their doubts dispelled by the tremendous Rheingold conducted by Richard Farnes, the Company’s Music Director … this is one of the most exciting Rheingolds of my experience …’ The Sunday Times
Conductor Richard Farnes
‘Beg, borrow, or be like Wotan and steal a ticket for this show [...] Farnes has done many fine things at Opera North, but his pacing of this 150 minute sweep of music, his care about balance, and the sumptuousness of the orchestral textures - all this constitutes a massive achievement.’ The Times
Siegmund Michael Weinius /
Mark Le Brocq Sieglinde Lee Bisset / Alwyn Mellor Hunding James Creswell Wotan Robert Hayward /
Béla Perencz Brünnhilde Kelly Cae Hogan Fricka Susan Bickley /
Yvonne Howard
Concert Staging and Design Concept Peter Mumford Lighting and Projection Designer
Peter Mumford Associate Director Joe Austin
Lasts approximately 5 hours 30 mins including two intervals Sung in German with English titles
In Die Walküre, it is human emotion that takes centre stage. The musical highlights are many: ‘Winterstürme’, Siegmund’s hymn of praise to the coming of spring and the awakening of love; the Ride of the Valkyries; the Magic Fire music. Above all, there is the great confrontation between the god Wotan and his favourite daughter, Brünnhilde – the Valkyrie of the title – who love each other deeply, yet whose relationship has been irreparably broken by her disobedience. ‘… Opera North’s performance of Die Walküre is a triumph of scarcely imaginable proportions, one of the most completely successful experiences I have ever had. … The cast, too, is uniformly strong, with Kelly Cae Hogan [Brünnhilde] … giving an account of her role of a calibre that I had given up hope of ever hearing again.’ The Spectator ‘Sustaining everything was the enlarged Orchestra of Opera North under the assured and inspired direction of Richard Farnes. He and they rightly received an ovation. The second instalment of Opera North’s Ring is a thrilling and moving experience.’ The Independent
Music
Richard Wagner
Libretto
Richard Wagner
Siegfried
First performance
Siegfried Daniel Frank Mime Richard Roberts Wanderer Béla Perencz Fafner Mats Almgren Woodbird Jeni Bern Erda Ceri Williams Brünnhilde Katherine Broderick /
Kelly Cae Hogan Conductor Richard Farnes Concert Staging and Design Concept Peter Mumford Lighting and Projection Designer
Peter Mumford Associate Director Joe Austin
Lasts approximately 5 hours 45 mins including two intervals Sung in German with English titles
Richard Wagner
Libretto
Richard Wagner First performance
Bayreuth, 1876
Cast includes:
Music
Götterdämmerung Twilight of the Gods
Bayreuth, 1876
Wagner’s unparalleled orchestral scene-painting reaches new heights in Siegfried. The youthful hero, fearless and free, forges an unbreakable sword from the shards of the weapon that belonged to his father, slays the dragon Fafner, seizes the ring from the dragon’s hoard, and braves a barrier of magic fire that encircles the sleeping maiden, Brünnhilde, whom he awakens to love. ‘I am breathless with admiration for Opera North, punching above its weight in producing a concert performance which any musical organisation in the world would be proud of. The evening’s chief hero is the conductor Richard Farnes, who, like the opera’s protagonist, seems to know no fear. Motivating his excellent orchestra, he trusts the music’s flow, paces it unerringly and never forces or grandstands the climaxes.’ The Daily Telegraph
Cast includes: First Norn Fiona Kimm Second Norn Heather Shipp /
Yvonne Howard Third Norn Lee Bisset Brünnhilde Kelly Cae Hogan /
Alwyn Mellor Siegfried Mati Turi Gunther Andrew Foster-Williams Hagen Mats Almgren Gutrune Giselle Allen Waltraute Susan Bickley /
Heather Shipp Alberich Jo Pohlheim Woglinde Jeni Bern Wellgunde Madeleine Shaw Flosshilde Sarah Castle Conductor Richard Farnes Concert Staging and Design Concept Peter Mumford Lighting and Projection Designer
Peter Mumford Associate Director Joe Austin
Lasts approximately 6 hours 30 mins including two intervals Sung in German with English titles
In the overwhelming conclusion of the Ring cycle, the all-consuming love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde is broken in bitter betrayal; the machinations of Hagen, son of Alberich, seal Siegfried’s doom; and Brünnhilde’s self-sacrifice precipitates the end of the old world order and the beginning of a new era. The musical and dramatic power of Götterdämmerung is awe-inspiring – sweeping us from Siegfried’s Rhine Journey to his Funeral March, and, finally, to Brünnhilde’s immolation and the work’s titanic orchestral climax. ‘[Alwyn Mellor] … is unquestionably in the top flight of Wagnerians anywhere.’ Opera ‘Enormous credit goes to Peter Mumford for the entire design concept and concert staging. Ineradicable images are created, evocative of Icelandic Edda and Teutonic saga.’ The Times
Performance Diary September – November 2015
January – March 2016
All performances start at 7.15pm unless otherwise stated.
All performances start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
Leeds Grand Theatre
Theatre Royal Newcastle
Leeds Grand Theatre
Theatre Royal Newcastle
Mon 21 Sep Wed 23 Sep Thu 24 Sep Fri 25 Sep Sat 3 Oct Wed 7 Oct Sat 17 Oct Wed 21 Oct Thu 22 Oct Fri 23 Oct Sat 24 Oct Mon 26 Oct Tue 27 Oct Wed 28 Oct Thu 29 Oct Fri 30 Oct Sat 31 Oct
Tue 3 Nov Wed 4 Nov Thu 5 Nov Fri 6 Nov Sat 7 Nov Sat 7 Nov
Tue 19 Jan Sat 23 Jan Tue 2 Feb Wed 3 Feb Wed 10 Feb Sat 13 Feb Wed 17 Feb Thu 18 Feb Fri 19 Feb Sat 20 Feb Wed 24 Feb Thu 25 Feb Fri 26 Feb Sat 27 Feb
Wed 2 Mar Thu 3 Mar Fri 4 Mar Sat 5 Mar
Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate The Barber of Seville The Barber of Seville Kiss Me, Kate Jenůfa The Barber of Seville Jenůfa Jenůfa The Barber of Seville Jenůfa The Barber of Seville Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate
The Barber of Seville Jenůfa The Barber of Seville Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate 2.15pm Kiss Me, Kate
The Lowry, Salford Quays Tue 10 Nov Wed 11 Nov Thu 12 Nov Fri 13 Nov Sat 14 Nov Sat 14 Nov
The Barber of Seville Jenůfa The Barber of Seville Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate 2.15pm Kiss Me, Kate
Theatre Royal Nottingham Tue 17 Nov Wed 18 Nov Thu 19 Nov Fri 20 Nov Sat 21 Nov Sat 21 Nov
The Barber of Seville Jenůfa The Barber of Seville Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate 2.15pm Kiss Me, Kate
Andrea Chénier Andrea Chénier Andrea Chénier Così fan tutte Così fan tutte Così fan tutte L’elisir d’amore Così fan tutte L’elisir d’amore Andrea Chénier Andrea Chénier L’elisir d’amore Così fan tutte L’elisir d’amore
7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
7.00pm
Così fan tutte L’elisir d’amore Così fan tutte Andrea Chénier
7.00pm 7.00pm
Theatre Royal Nottingham Tue 8 Mar Wed 9 Mar Thu 10 Mar Fri 11 Mar Sat 12 Mar
Così fan tutte Andrea Chénier L’elisir d’amore Così fan tutte Andrea Chénier
7.00pm
7.00pm
The Lowry, Salford Quays Wed 16 Mar Thu 17 Mar Fri 18 Mar Sat 19 Mar
Così fan tutte L’elisir d’amore Così fan tutte Andrea Chénier
7.00pm 7.00pm
Performance Diary
Photographs Yorkshire-based photographer Tom Arber spent a week in residence at Opera North in September 2014, during preparations for a new production of Verdi’s La traviata. Granted full backstage access for the project, his images detail the final stage rehearsals in the run up to opening night, giving a glimpse of rarely seen moments both on and off stage.
Der Ring des Nibelungen April – July 2016 Leeds Town Hall Cycle 1 Sat 23 Apr Sat 30 Apr Sat 14 May Sat 21 May
The Lowry, Salford Quays
Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
7.30pm 5.00pm 5.00pm 3.30pm
Cycle 2 Tue 24 May Das Rheingold Wed 25 May Die Walküre Fri 27 May Siegfried Sun 29 May Götterdämmerung
7.30pm 5.00pm 5.00pm 3.30pm
Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
Mon 13 Jun Tue 14 Jun Thu 16 Jun Sat 18 Jun
Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
7.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 3.30pm
Southbank Centre, London Tue 28 Jun Wed 29 Jun Fri 1 Jul Sun 3 Jul
Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
7.00pm 5.00pm 5.00pm 3.00pm
Sage Gateshead
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Mon 6 Jun Tue 7 Jun Thu 9 Jun Sat 11 Jun
The information in this brochure is published in good faith, and is correct at the time of going to print (May 2015), but changes may occasionally be necessary. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, Opera North reserves the right to change casts or performances.
7.00pm 3.00pm 3.00pm 3.00pm
Tue 5 Jul Wed 6 Jul Fri 8 Jul Sun 10 Jul
Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
7.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 3.30pm
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