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Showing posts with label Leeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leeds. Show all posts
Monday, 9 November 2026

The Song Within: Leeds Song Festival returns in April 2027 with a programme expanding the boundaries of the song recital

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Audience at Leeds Song Festival 2025 [Photo: Tom Arber] Leeds Song Festival returns in April 2027 with a week of song from 10 to 17 April un...
Monday, 15 September 2025

Huw Montague Rendall & Joseph Middleton launch the 2025/26 Leeds Song concert season with Die schöne Müllerin at Leeds Conservatoire

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On 28 September 2025 at Leeds Conservatoire, baritone Huw Montague Rendall and pianist Joseph Middleton open the 2025/26 concert season of L...
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Youth Opera, black spiders, contemporary Christmas capers, dancing Handel - Opera North's 2025/26 season

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Phyllida Lloyd's 2006 production of Peter Grimes returns to Opera North in 2026 marking the 50th anniversary of Britten's death (Ph...
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Seeking professional Global Majority musicians and composers based in the North of England and the Midlands: Opera North's Resonance residency programme 2024/25

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Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya: concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North (Photo Justin Slee) Opera North's R...
Saturday, 20 April 2024

A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024

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Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly Room Composers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook;  Leeds Lieder Festival at Le...

A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more

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Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, 1889 Lecture recital : Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies; Graham Johnson, Sarah Fox, Florian Störtz; Leed...
Thursday, 18 April 2024

Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar

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Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club Matyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill,...
Saturday, 30 March 2024

Song belongs to us all and should be available to all: artistic director, Joseph Middleton on Leeds Lieder's boldest and most colourful festival yet

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Discovering Lieder - Leeds Lieder 2023 (Photo: Ed Robinson) Leeds Lieder is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year whilst co-incidenta...
Monday, 22 January 2024

UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.

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Running from 17 August to 8 September 2024, the 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival, programmed by Northern Opera Group, offers audiences a blen...
Wednesday, 20 December 2023

On Wings of Song: Leeds Lieder celebrates 20 years of song in Leeds

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After a year which included both a potentially catastrophic funding crisis (thanks to Arts Council England) and a record number of first tim...
Monday, 15 May 2023

Steeping listeners in Indian classical music without them knowing it: sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun

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Jasdeep Singh Degun Jasdeep Singh Degun 's tour of Anomaly featuring music from his acclaimed Real World Records debut disc opens on 1...
Thursday, 23 March 2023

Touches of Sweet Harmony: Leeds Lieder's 2023 festival

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This year's Leeds Lieder Festival is the biggest ever, running from 9 to 17 June 2023 having expanded from four to nine days. Under arti...
Thursday, 16 March 2023

Frida, Maria & co: Leeds Opera Festival goes Latin American for 2023

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There is a Latin American theme to the 2023 Leeds Opera Festival. Taking place in over a dozen venues across Leeds and organised by Northern...
Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Keenly dramatic: Puccini's Tosca at Opera North with a feisty Tosca, an unexpected Cavaradossi and a remarkable Scarpia

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Puccini: Tosca - Robert Hayward - Opera North (Photo: James Glossop) Puccini: Tosca; Giselle Allen, Andrés Presno, Robert Hayward, director...
Monday, 13 February 2023

Opera North's 2023 Resonance residences, genres from jazz and R&B to ambient, and rooted in traditional music from across Africa and Asia

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Artists taking part in Opera North's Resonance residencies 2023 Opera North has announced the latest round of Resonance residences, its ...
Friday, 9 December 2022

A dislike of plastic elves and glowing Santas spewing out rainbow snowmen in every direction

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Martin Green Composer (and one-third of the innovative folk band, Lau ) Martin Green has created two new works for Opera North exploring t...
Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Orpheus at Opera North: greater than the sum of its parts

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Orpheus - Shahbaz Hussain on tabla, RN Prakash on ghatam, Mark Wagstaff on percussion, Sergio Bucheli on theorbo, Jasdeep Singh Degun on si...
Friday, 11 March 2022

DARE Art Prize: call for applications for this prize for collaboration between the arts and sciences

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Samuel Hertz performing Gunslinger , his transcription of a glacier melting, with musicians Kieran Blyth and Wilfred Amis in the Howard Asse...
Friday, 18 February 2022

Leeds Lieder 2022: Song Illuminated

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The Leeds Lieder Festival 2022 runs from Thursday 28 April to Sunday 1 May 2022; four days of song curated by artistic director Joseph Middl...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

I've just kept going: David Greed, the leader of Opera North's orchestra since its inception in 1978 is finally stepping down

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Leader of the Orchestra of Opera North David Greed performing in Huddersfield Town Hall (Photo Justin Slee) After Opera North's performa...