Northlight Arts Centre: A Life Drawing Class
We welcome another new writer to our team – Ghazal Felan – who was delighted to be asked to review Boris Cruse’s Life Drawing Class on Tuesday evening. In the world of art, drawing serves as a gateway to boundless creativity and self-expression. It’s a timeless practice that transcends language barriers, allowing individuals to communicate […]
Opera North’s Double Bill: Cavalleria Rusticana With Aleko – Reviewed
For a full operatic evening, Pietro Mascagni’s opera in one act, Cavalleria Rusticana (“Rustic Chivalry”), is so often coupled with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci that regular opera-goers refer to “Cav ‘n Pag” as inseparable twins. Refreshing, then, to see Opera North subvert the norm and stage Cavalleria Rusticana with Aleko by Rachmaninoff (surely the winning obscure answer […]
Opera North: Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at Leeds Grand Theatre – Reviewed
From its very beginnings, Cosí Fan Tutte ossia La Scuola Degli Amanti (perhaps “They’re All The Same or The School For Lovers”) has had a rough time of it from the critics. Written immediately after the social and political upheavals of 1789 in Paris, it was taken to be an Enlightenment attempt to remodel comic […]
Albert Herring: Howard Assembly Room – Various Dates From 12 January
Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera, a revival of Giles Havergal’s Opera North production from 2013, appears to be in its optimum performance space in the beautiful Howard Assembly Room attached to Leeds Grand Theatre, which provides just the right level of intimacy. Any attempt to put ‘Albert Herring’ into a grandiose theatre with a proscenium arch […]
Life of Pi at Leeds Grand Theatre: The Impossible Made Beautifully Possible
I’m ashamed to say I’m one of the few people who has not only been unable to get around to reading this book, but I’ve not even spent the two small hours needed to watch the film. It’s certainly one I’ve been meaning to get round to, but I think my belief that it was […]
