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…
The Last Days of Troy, written by Simon Armitage, whom most people will know for his award winning poetry, takes Homer’s classic poem, The Iliad and fuses it with Virgil’s Aeneid, to create a truly dramatic depiction of the story of the final days of the Trojan War. Making her first appearance for the Royal…
Last night, we had the pleasure of watching one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, brought to the Royal Exchange Theatre by Maria Aberg, who is making her Royal Exchange directing debut. Originally set in 16th century Messina, Italy, a somewhat modernised production brought the play into a twentieth century, post-war setting as…
The tagline for Evolution of Dance was ‘As soon as man was able to walk, he was looking for ways to dance’. In truth I’ve been looking for ways to dance for a long time. The jazz lessons I took can account for that and proved two things to me – firstly that dancing on more than…
