Award-winning opera producer Ellen Kent makes her return to Manchester, bringing along with her two of her most popular productions – Puccini’s Tosca (27 November) and Bizet’s Carmen (28 November). Kent has been producing highly acclaimed operas for the past 24 years. The two Manchester dates form part of a sensational new season and countrywide…
It was the opera ‘they tried to ban’. Verdi’s work, based upon the play Le roi s’amue by Victor Hugo and with an Italian libretto written by Fransesco Maria Piave, caused no short amount of outrage when it originally premiered. Thankfully, it has survived to become regarded as the first of Verdi’s operatic masterpieces. Rigoletto…
Two iconic operas, Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly, have been announced for performances at Manchester’s Opera House on Saturday 21st March and Saturday 22nd March 2015. The two productions are being brought to Manchester as a part of their national tour of Britain and Ireland by award winning producer Ellen Kent, who has recently brought performances…
American composer Philip Glass’ new opera, an interpretation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, is set to be brought to Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music on 22nd October 2014 as part of its world premiere production run. The performance is being staged by Music Theatre Wales and comes fo the RNCM for one performance only….
Two of the most popular and famous operas are set to be performed at Manchester Opera House this autumn as award-winning producer Ellen Kent makes her return to Manchester with productions of La Traviata and Madama Butterfly. This follows her recent critically acclaimed British and Irish national tours of Nabucco, Aida and La Boheme. The…
Manchester Opera Project is set to showcase its first project – Mysterious 44. The Opera is based on a Mark Twain story and tells of the effect a mysterious stranger has on the lives of three boys in Eseldorf, a small village in medieval Austria, over a period of one week. Set in 1490 we…
Opera della Luna brings its unique ensemble of multi-talented singers and comedians to the Lowry Theatre next week as they celebrate their twentieth anniversary. Originally founded in 1994, Opera della Luna has decided to celebrate twenty years of singing and comedy by taking on a rather ambitious project called the Venetian Initiative – touring the UK…
