With Puccini's devastating take on passion and power, Janáček's bittersweet exploration of the cycle of life, and Strauss' playful look at what happens when tragedy and comedy collide on and off stage ...

After a Christmas-time celebration with further performances of The Adventures of Pinocchio and The Merry Widow, the Winter Season proper begins at Opera North on January 17th. American director ...

The gestation of Janáček‘s first opera in 1904 caused him no end of headaches, but modern audiences needn’t fear that it’ll do the same to them. Jenůfa fuses rich, redolent music with a compelling ...

If Hell were as much fun as it is in the Opera North’s production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus and the Underworld,” we’d be making reservations. After all, Mount Olympus — home of Jupiter and the good, ...

Opera North celebrates its 42nd year with three beloved works of musical theater, from the 19th-century ribald satirical comedy Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” to one of the icons of Romantic ...

‘The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved tale, has become nearly ubiquitous, selling some 140 million copies worldwide. The surreal fable is not only irresistible, it is deeply probing.

Now Opera North have revived it for their audiences, and it’s lost none of its inspirational magic. That comes both from Pountney’s English translation of the text and from the wonderful set and ...

It could be today. The boss wants to sleep with the bride before the wedding. His wife’s not too happy about it, so she and the bride-to-be connive to teach the boss a lesson. And the bridegroom sort ...

When the opera was first made from Murger’s mid-century novel, the 1830s of the original setting would have seemed a world you could imagine your parents might have lived in. And in this production ...

Welcome to Alcina’s island paradise. All men who set foot there fall under her spell, but soon discover it’s all an illusion: Alcina is an enchantress whose island is nothing but a barren wasteland, ...