A Little Night Music continues at Leeds Playhouse until 16 July 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What an extraordinarily generous composer Stephen Sondheim was. A little Night Music gives substantial singing roles to the young and the old, the aristocrat and the servant, the dolt and the susceptible. As the evening […]
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Leeds return for Playhouse and Opera North hit co-production of A Little Night Music
Leeds Playhouse and Opera North’s acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s evocative A Little Night Music will play an encore run in Leeds this summer. Directed by the Playhouse’s artistic director James Brining, the director of Leeds Playhouse and Opera North’s celebrated 2016 production of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, A Little Night Music […]
Bernstein Double Bill – Opera North – Grand Theatre, Leeds
Bernstein Double Bill (Trouble in Tahiti/West Side Story Symphonic Dances), presented by Opera North, continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds until 30 October 2021, before touring until 20 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ How nice of Mr Bernstein to have provided us with two such complementary pieces. Trouble in Tahiti […]
A Little Night Music – Leeds Playhouse
A Little Night Music continues at Leeds Playhouse until 17 July 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For my first visit to Leeds Playhouse in many months I knew I was in safe hands with a joint production from the venue and Opera North, the ever reliable James Brining in the director’s chair. […]
Opera North to stream Trouble in Tahiti
Opera North will stream its well-received production of Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti free of charge on 6 May 2020 at 7pm on Opera North’s YouTube channel. Originally commissioned by The Space, and recorded live at Leeds Grand Theatre in October 2017, the film which is directed by Ross MacGibbon will remain available on demand […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Grand Theatre, Leeds and Touring
Kiss Me, Kate at the Grand Theatre, Leeds. The Opera North production plays four performances at the Alighieri Theatre in Ravenna, Italy before returning to the UK to play the London Coliseum from 20-30 June 2018. The show will then head for the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from 4-7 July. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Reviewing Opera […]
Cast for Opera North’s Kiss Me, Kate return
Casting has been announced for the return of Opera North’s award-winning production of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate, which is due to open at Leeds Grand Theatre in May ahead of UK touring dates. Opera North’s production of Porter’s Golden Age musical version of the Bard’s The Taming of the Shrew, will once again […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Touring
Kiss Me, Kate continues at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff until 7 October, then plays dates in Liverpool, Llandudno, Birmingham, Oxford and Southampton. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Strictly speaking, it isn’t at all necessary to ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ to enjoy the infectiously foot-tapping music and lyrics of Cole Porter’s musical […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Grand Theatre, Leeds
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds until 31 October before touring to Theatre Royal Newcastle, The Lowry Salford Quays and Theatre Royal Nottingham. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ So, the next step in Opera North’s journey through the Golden Age of Musicals brings us to Cole Porter. There is little doubt that this is […]
