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The Magic Flute review – Opera North inject colour into Mozart’s black-and-white world

Expert casting and striking design bring out the opera’s sense of fun, helped by the magnetism of the two female leads

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My Fair Lady review – an abso-bloomin’-lutely loverly musical

Opera North brings shimmering music to this gorgeous and crisply choreographed co-production, which preserves Shaw’s critique of the British class system

The Guardian - UK

My Fair Lady review – comedy and chemistry light up Opera North’s musical-theatre triumph

Katie Bird is an irresistible Eliza Doolittle in this inspired show, which takes its interrogation of social mobility seriously but with a sparkling lightness of touch

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The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko; Bath BachFest review – passion and penitence

Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani

The Guardian - UK

Cavalleria Rusticana/Aleko review – an electrifying double-bill from Opera North

Setting Mascagni’s one-act opera amid the unease of 70s communist Poland, and moving Rachmaninoff’s to a colourful 90s surfing commune, the company does them both delectable justice

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Albert Herring review – Opera North’s glorious glimpse of village politics

Britten’s comedy about an unworldly young man’s fall from grace is slickly staged and delightfully played, with every singer making their mark

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci; OAE/ Suzuki: Christmas Oratorio; The Sixteen: Messiah – review

Hot-blooded double bill Cav and Pag hits home in a fine Royal Opera revival, while the OAE and the Sixteen thrill in seasonal Bach and Handel. Plus, the human cost of ENO’s move to Manchester

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‘This could be really interesting’: Manchester and English National Opera may yet suit each other

London’s loss will be Manchester’s gain as the opera company announces it is to create a base in the thriving cultural centre

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera announces Greater Manchester will be its new home

The company, which had a shortlist of five cities, had been told funding was dependent on leaving London

The Guardian - UK

It’s not just opera – all performing arts need better support for touring productions

Letters: Jodi Myers on the gaps left by the demise of the Arts Council Touring department. Plus Nicholas Reckert and Jane Harvey on modern opera

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: La rondine; La traviata review – rapture and raw power

Puccini’s flighty swallow soars in James Hurley’s gorgeous new production for Opera North. And Nicole Chevalier is devastating as the doomed Violetta in ENO’s impassioned revival of no-frills Verdi

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La Rondine review – Opera North’s stylish Puccini is opulent and tender

Set in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoons

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The week in classical: Falstaff; Hatfield House chamber music festival – review

Verdi’s late masterpiece ends on a riotous and sustainable high at Opera North. At the childhood home of Elizabeth I, a family affair and a memorable premiere

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Lesley Sharp’s cultural highlights

The actor on her love of dance, the reality TV series Below Deck and what helps her to write

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The week in classical: Requiem; Jerusalem Quartet review – another five-star fusion from Opera North

Sorrowful Mozart meets unstoppable Neo Muyanga in an inspired double bill from Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre. Plus, the sounds of Yiddish cabaret…

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Requiem review – Mozart meets stomping South African movement

A double bill from Phoenix Dance Theatre and Opera North contrasts Mozart’s wretched souls with Neo Muyanga’s After Party – two very different ways of dealing with death

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The week in classical: The Pearl Fishers; Takács Quartet – review

Opera North’s latest concert staging goes big on pearls, with commitment to match. And the peerless Takács give a masterclass in delayed gratification

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Victoria Leeds welcomes new opening as it kicks off spring season

There's an exciting new immersive experience which has also been launched by the Victoria Leeds team

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Kino, Leeds: ‘Expect dramatic bursts of harissa and tahini’ – restaurant review

The brasserie at Opera North features a rotating cast of pop-up stars, and Levantine-inspired MorMor is a fine example. By Jay Rayner

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Music superstars to play huge outdoor Leeds city centre shows this summer

There's some great events coming to Millennium Square in Leeds this summer

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi needs to summon his Jedi skills or face electoral oblivion

Rishi Sunak is a huge Star Wars fan and it’s been said that he looks to the films for inspiration, both personally and politically. The power of The Force in Star Wars can be seen as a metaphor for faith that resonates and inspires from within. Our Prime Minister does…

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The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023

Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour

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Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2022

Excellence and perilous funding went hand in hand, Salome sizzled, a piano great led the way, and India and Italy became musical neighbours

The Guardian - UK

A fight at the opera: could forcing ENO up north work out?

The ultimatum to English National Opera was attacked as ‘cultural vandalism’, but raised some hopes nearer Manchester

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England no longer values the profound, weird art of opera – and that leaves us all poorer

Cutting funding to ENO will do nothing for ‘levelling up’, but it will do deep, unnecessary damage to our shared cultural life, says Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

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