Christoph Wilibad Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice – Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre
Just when one might have thought it safe for Hades to return to business as usual, here comes another operatic Orpheus wandering its depths in search of his missing wife. Unlike Opera North’s previous venture, the fascinating and rather wonderful collaboration with South Asian Arts, where the exoticisms of Monteverdi and Indian classical music blossomed […]
Opera North – Monteverdi’s Orpheus Reviewed (at Leeds Grand Theatre This Week)
A scholastic consensus identifies the first exotic entertainment combining song, dance and instruments that, today, we might classify as Opera, to the Florence of the Medicis in 1598. From whatever tentative, embryonic beginnings, the musical world had not long to wait, therefore, for the genre’s first assured masterpiece in Monteverdi’s setting of the Orpheus legend […]
Leeds Haydn Players at West Park United Reformed Church
Leeds’ vibrant amateur orchestral scene starts its Autumn Season each year at the beginning of September, at the end of the long school holiday. Weekly rehearsals normally result in a Christmastide concert, so it’s particularly enterprising of Leeds Haydn Players to bring off a concert by the second week in October. As the ensemble’s name […]
Opera North: Wagner’s Parsifal – at Leeds Grand Theatre 4th, 7th and 10 June
An extraordinary production followed by a tour to Manchester, Nottingham, Gateshead and London from 12 to 26 June. Doubtless, the world would need fewer critics if it could ascertain what performers themselves truthfully think of their merits on stage. A frank self-assessment and evaluation of those with whom they work, a knowledgeable judgment of insiders […]
In Conversation With Brindley Sherratt
“A Wagner singer is a happy singer.” John Tomlinson Brindley Sherratt Sings Gurnemanz, Veteran Knight of the Grail, in Opera North’s upcoming production of Wagner’s Parsifal. Grand Theatre Leeds 1, 4, 7 and 10 June. He shared some of his time with Tom Tollett. As the principal bass in an opera, for once you are […]
