NORTHERN OPERA GROUP’S CINDERELLA
And one for the pre-teens … Firstly, a word about a composer, now largely forgotten, who may merit a chapter to herself in an adequate tome of music’s history. Pauline Viardot lived a long life. She was six in the year that Beethoven died, yet lived until just five weeks shy of the sensational première […]
Opera North’s Cinderella
With theatres most definitely closed by decree and Christmas all but cancelled, here is forty minutes of family fun, for a fiver, to be enjoyed at any time during our isolated festivities. Ready the children, with a brief explanation of what cinders once were, fashion a wand with which to help the magic along, and […]
