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The Band Plays On

Chris Bush

Opera North new activities for young musicians

15 April 2021

Opera North’s £18m redevelopment project, the Howard Opera Centre, will offer over 300 places for young musicians and Opera North Youth Orchestra launched.

Opera North returns from lockdown

10 April 2021

A tour of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio will be the first large-scale production for over a year as Leeds-based Opera North builds towards a fuller programme of public events.

New dates as Grease revs up for 2021 tour

8 April 2021

Producers of a new tour of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical Grease have rescheduled its 2021 dates which will start at Leicester’s Curve in July.

Jenna Russell to appear in Piaf in Nottingham

30 March 2021

Nottingham Playhouse has confirmed that Pam Gems’s Piaf featuring Jenna Russell in the lead role will be staged in summer 2021—12 months after its original date.

Armitage and Bryars on words and music in podcast

19 March 2021

The latest podcast episode from Opera North and the University of Leeds brings together Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Gavin Bryars.

Opera North's new broadcast and digital projects

19 March 2021

Opera North's new projects will include a co-production with Leeds Playhouse of Testament’s Orpheus in the Record Shop, broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer as part of #BBCLightsUp.