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Giacomo Puccini

Puccini’s melodrama of lust and love, of cruelty and self-sacrifice, of freedom and repression, portrays human relationships at their best and at their worst with uncompromising force.

Tosca, a star singer, is the lover of Cavaradossi, an artist. Scarpia, the corrupt Chief of Police and agen [...]

Franz Lehár

A glittering cast and superb creative team are brought together for this production of Lehár’s greatest hit, in which Parisian sensuality meets Viennese sophistication.

The question of who the young, beautiful and stupendously wealthy widow Hanna Glawari will take as her second husband is a matter o [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Magic Flute is a story about the trials of life: growing up, finding your way in the world and learning to love. Adventure jostles with fantasy, comedy with drama, and Mozart sets it all to a score full of miraculous music. Popular songs are mixed with stirring choruses, arias [...]

Leoš Janáček

Janáček took his inspiration for Katya Kabanova from several sources: a Russian play, The Storm; his admiration for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly; and above all, his own unrequited love for a married woman.

Katya is a woman with a gentle soul and a [...]

For the first time, Opera North collaborates with Leeds-based, internationally-renowned Phoenix Dance Theatre. Together they present present Stravinsky’s groundbreaking ballet The Rite of Spring, along with Puccini’s Gianni Schicci in a double bill offering two very different reflections on the decline of the old order and th [...]

Giuseppe Verdi

Commissioned to create a grand opera to inaugurate the new opera house in Cairo, Verdi responded by creating a historical fantasy of Egypt on a tragic theme. Yet for all its scenes of spectacle, such as the famous triumphal march, at the heart of Aida is a web of intimate personal relations [...]