A groundbreaking new staging of Monteverdi's opera Orpheus is set to open at Opera North in Leeds this October, before touring northern theatres alongside Verdi's La traviata, and concerts of Gluck's ...
Ashnaa Sasikaran as Eurydice and Nicholas Watts as Orpheus with members of the Orpheus company We see the respective friends and family gathered, dressed in their best for such an occasion, and the ...
If Hell were as much fun as it is in the Opera North’s production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus and the Underworld,” we’d be making reservations. After all, Mount Olympus — home of Jupiter and the good, ...
The term ‘re-imagining’ is often a useful warning that the event in question will be either a game stab at inter-cultural blending or a cringe-worthy attempt to squeeze some unfortunate classic or ...
Opera North celebrates its 42nd year with three beloved works of musical theater, from the 19th-century ribald satirical comedy Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” to one of the icons of Romantic ...
We are only too aware that we are working with two massive musical traditions, but the first thing that struck us when we started rehearsing was that there were more similarities in our approaches to ...
Opera North celebrates its 42nd year with three beloved works of musical theater, from the 19th-century ribald satirical comedy Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” to one of the icons of Romantic ...