Two rescue greyhounds from the Mersey and Cheshire Manchester Branch of The Greyhound Trust will take to the stage during Ellen Kent's production of Rigoletto at Manchester Opera House. Producer Ellen has long been a campaigner for animal welfare, and after talking to...
Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) brings Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel to the backstreets of Manchester this spring. The RNCM turns the clock back to the 1890s for this production of the Brothers Grimm tale, where a young brother and sister...
Manchester Opera Project, who are dedicated to commissioning and developing new opera, present their brand new Festival One over the next few days. Festival One is the first festival of operatic works specifically commissioned for Manchester by a Manchester...
RNCM staging first oratorio Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music is to stage an oratorio for the first time as RNCM Opera presents Handel's Theodora. Theodora is widely recognised as one of Handel's masterpieces. The story, in English, recounts the tender...
RNCM Opera to present Offenbach’s work The glitz and glamour of Paris comes to Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music in the run up to Christmas as the RNCM Opera presents Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne featuring students from the School of Vocal Studies and...
Renowned opera producer Ellen Kent returns to Manchester with her latest production, Puccini's La Boheme. La Boheme will be traditionally staged featuring beautiful sets and costumes, reflecting the Bohemian art of the period, and will include a brass band, snow...
Chilling new opera inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of greed and compulsion A chilling tale of greed and compulsion by Robert Louis Stevenson gets the operatic treatment from composer Stuart MacRae and novelist Louise Welsh. The Devil Inside, their new work,...
Carmen is the story of the bewitching gypsy girl whose tantalising beauty lures a soldier to desertion and leads to her own murder. Stunning international mezzo-soprano Zarui Vardanean who received critical acclaim for performances of Carmen in 2013 and Aida in 2014,...
As the award-winning opera producer brings tours of Bizet’s Carmen and Puccini’s Tosca to Manchester, Ellen Kent gives her thoughts on opera production, touring and working with local stage schools: YOU HAVE BEEN PRODUCING ACCLAIMED OPERAS FOR ALMOST 25 YEARS, THAT’S...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...