Summerfest 2024 marks Opera North's 42nd season and a decade's investment in its journey to create a national park for the arts with the National Park Service at Blow-Me-Down Farm. Returning ...

Laura Canning, General Director, Opera North, says, “This year, we’re championing the next generation of talent as we welcome our Youth Company to the main stage to open the season in Leeds. We’ll be ...

BOOST, the charity supporting students at Duchess Community High School (DCHS) in Alnwick, is delighted to kick off 2026 with ...

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 ...

‘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.

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, ...

At the centre of what turns out eventually to be a very successful performance are several newcomers to Opera North. Gianluca Marciano conducts with spirit and some subtlety, with pace and attack, but ...

Opera North has got it right. At this time of acute uncertainty for the UK’s opera companies, it welcomes its audiences both old and new with confidence. The company has struck a fine balance between ...