Mel Brimfield: From This World, to That Which is to Come – at The Tetley
The exhibition is open online now, with the physical gallery set to open from 21 May. As lockdown begins to ease, the Tetley’s new exhibition From This World, to That Which Is to Come seems ideal in terms of construction and content. The Tetley has transformed the exhibition, by artist Mel Brimfield, into something that […]
Leeds Lit Fest – In Conversation With Peter James
Crime and thriller writing phenomenon, Peter James, took to the virtual stage at lunchtime on the second day of the 2021 edition of Leeds Lit Fest. This relaxed conversation between Peter and Leeds Lit Fest’s Jonathan Straight, gave the audience a unique insight into where Peter gets his inspiration for his bestselling plot-twisting page-turners. Growing […]
Opera North’s La Petite Boheme
On the face of it, the prospect of the shortest of La Bohème’s four Acts, at just a little over twenty minutes, and in animation at that, would seem of limited appeal. After all, we miss the youthful Act I, the humour and intricate slapstick of denying the landlord his rent at its centre, and […]
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 […]
