Manchester’s RNCM set to open 50th anniversary celebrations with Die Fledermaus
Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music is opening its 50th anniversary year of celebrations with performances of Johann Strauss II’s opera Die Fledermaus.
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Two rescue greyhounds to feature in Rigoletto at Manchester Opera House
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...
RNCM Opera bringing Hansel and Gretel to Manchester
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...
Previewed: Festival One – three days of operas
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 to present Handel’s Theodora
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...
Previewed: La Vie Parisienne at the Royal Northern College of Music
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...
Previewed: La Boheme at Manchester Opera House
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...
Previewed: The Devil Inside at the RNCM
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,...
Previewed: Bizet’s Carmen at Manchester Opera House
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,...
In Interview: Opera Producer Ellen Kent
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...
Previewed: Tosca at Manchester Opera House
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....
In Review: Rigoletto at the Manchester Opera House
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...
Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly Coming to Manchester Opera House
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...
New Opera by Philip Glass Set for RNCM
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...
Madama Butterfly and La Traviata Set for Manchester Opera House
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...