Leeds
Ruddigore, Opera NorthFriday, 05 February 2010
The plot of this rarely performed Gilbert and Sullivan spoof melodrama is gloriously amusing. The male heirs of the Murgatroyd family suffer under a witch’s curse which forces them to commit a crime each day, or suffer an agonising death. Sir... Read more... |
Joanna MacGregor, Howard Assembly Room, LeedsSunday, 20 December 2009
Joanna MacGregor walks on stage purposefully, clutching a manuscript of paving-slab dimensions, promptly sits down and starts to play, smiling. The opening measures of Messiaen’s Regard du Père steal in gently, and for the next 120 minutes we are... Read more... |
Così fan tutte, Grand Theatre, LeedsSaturday, 12 September 2009The film critic Mark Kermode maintains that if a film is advertised on the side of a bus, it will inevitably be rubbish. Opera North are advertising this revival of Tim Albery’s 2004 Così fan tutte extensively on the sides of buses here in Leeds.... Read more... |
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