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Public booking for our 2025-26 opera season now open at all venues — explore titles, performance dates, casting... and our brand new artwork for each show 🤩 Tell us what you think!

Book 👉 bit.ly/ON2526

Pass the Spoon | Opera North Served up by composer David Fennessy, artist David Shrigley and director Nicholas Bone, Pass the Spoon is a darkly comic feast of words (spoken and sung), music and puppetry, made with decidedly adult...

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www.operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/pas...

Simon Boccanegra review — riveting Verdi to stir the soul Bradford, this year’s UK City of Culture, hosted the first night of a superbly high-voltage concert staging by Opera North

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I doubt whether anything will stir the soul, shiver the spine and raise the roof like this concert staging of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra" @thetimes.com

Next stops tomorrow at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall and Friday at @theglasshouseicm.bsky.social

The reason for being in Bradford was to see the @operanorth.co.uk production of Simon Boccanegra. Well, it was absolutely magnificent and I believe they are taking it on tour now, so if you get the opportunity I’d urge you to go.

Fantastic performance of Simon Boccanegra by @operanorth.co.uk in Bradford, one of the best things I've seen them do in 40 or so years. Coming to Newcastle,Hull, Liverpool, Nottingham and London,if you get the chance to see it.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for #ONBoccanegra: "a superbly high-voltage concert staging" from @thetimes.com

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Joining us? Tell us what YOU thought of Simon Boccanegra...

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We open Simon Boccanegra tonight as part of @bradford2025.co.uk

👀 Here's a sneak peek...

Toi Toi Toi to our incredible cast, Chorus and Orchestra, everyone behind the scenes and all involved.

Join the critically-acclaimed powerhouse that is the Chorus of Opera North!

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/ON-Jobs

This June, Don Alfonso will be playing mind games with young lovers in the Leicestershire countryside — we're bringing Mozart's Così fan tutte (with two casts!) to Nevill Holt Festival.

Explore 👉 nevillholtfestival.com/events/cosi-...

Here's Siân Griffiths (Dorabella) © Craig Sugden Photography

A night at the Opera!

Full Orchestra

Accessibility and Social Media forward!

Discounts and Goodies to temp you to try it on!

🎭🗣️🎶 Went to see our first opera together last weekend! 😀

@operanorth.co.uk The Magic Flute was great! They go all in to be accessible & inclusive; BSL on stage with performers, audio described, subtitled, and in English!

Plus discounts+treats to Try It On!
#onMagicFlute #OperaNorth #HullNewTheatre

Call for Applications: Female and Non-Binary Conductor Traineeship We're seeking emerging female and non-binary conductors based in the UK for our annual intensive ten-week training scheme aimed at addressing the gender imbalance within classical music.

📢 Applications are now open for next year's Female and Non-Binary #Conductor Traineeship. Spread the word!

This intensive annual 10-week scheme was launched in recognition of the fact that talented female and non-binary conductors are less likely to find a way into the industry. Find out more 👇

Flying Dutchman curtain call.

Theatre Royal, Nottingham.

#ONDutchman: a thoughtful, provocative production that gains in depth & complexity as the story gathers momentum. Powerhouse lead performances from Robert Hayward & Layla Claire. @operanorth.co.uk

Laura Canning interview: ‘I wanted to fight the fight at a time when opera feels like it’s under attack’ Laura Canning’s opera career of more than 25 years has taken her from Cardiff to Houston, Texas, and on to rural Buckinghamshire. Now general director of Opera North, she tells George Hall why she wan...

"I’m trying to create as many different entry points as I can for people to experience what we do" — our General Director Laura Canning talks to @thestage.co.uk:

"We want to ensure everyone has a chance to experience the magic of #opera" — an intro to our newly-announced 2025–26 season from General Director Laura Canning.

Explore 👉 bit.ly/ON_2526

Hi Ruth! The website is up to date. There was a cast change between the Season Guide going to print, and the announcement today...

The Secret of the Black Spider Judith Weir Susanna George Frideric Handel La bohème Giacomo Puccini Pass the Spoon David Fennessy The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten

👋 Hello 2025–26! Explore 👉 bit.ly/ON_2526

An opera season with brand new productions, returning audience favourites, our next collaboration with @phoenixleeds.bsky.social and more...

A theatre with a red and gold auditorium full of people

⏰ Midday tomorrow: our 2025-26 opera season will be announced! Any guesses what's coming up? #ON2526

Thrilling, dramatic and inspirational take on The Flying Dutchman by Annabel Arden and @operanorth.co.uk @thelowry.com last night. Awesome Senta by Layla Claire.

Thanks @operanorth.co.uk for a fantastic #FlyingDutchman at @thelowry.com Senta's ballad in particular was wonderful, and the migrant influence very poignant.

Just got tickets for this 🤘
Really can't wait 😎
@monkeyboy1337.bsky.social

The Music of Star Wars | Opera North This Star Wars Day, journey with the Orchestra of Opera North to a galaxy far, far away.

📢 Just announced: this #StarWarsDay (May the 4th), hear the *70-piece* Orchestra of Opera North play highlights from John Williams' iconic film scores in concert on the stage at Leeds Grand Theatre.

Book 👉 bit.ly/ONStarWars

Audiences (including 700 school children!) loving 'The Magic Flute' Lite at The Lowry this morning. Our favourite sound 🥹

This shorter version packs all the drama of Mozart's opera into less than two hours — perfect for schools, families and more 👉 bit.ly/MagicFluteLite

📺 See Opera North and English National Opera on BBC Travel Show, who followed soprano Isabelle Peters and our 'Sing ON: Take to the Stage' participant Claire Throssell on an incredibly moving journey 👉 bbc.in/4ikayWh

"For two hours I'm transformed into something else, you get swept away" 🥹

🎻 Two exciting opportunities in the #Orchestra of Opera North 👉 bit.ly/ON-Jobs

Section Principal Double Bass
First Violin No. 2 (Co-Leader)

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Watched Die Fliegende Höllander at Newcastle with @operanorth.co.uk . great singing great orchestra. Time flew by

On the way home after a terrifically well sung and played Flying Dutchman from @operanorth.co.uk The orchestra was world class.

When you you meet a 'bird-catcher' 🐦🤔

Here's the "mellifluous baritone" (@theguardian.com) of Emyr Wyn Jones as Papageno.

We've got 2x packed out #ONMagicFlute performances in Newcastle this week, and can't wait to hear what everyone thinks...

Opera North is on Bluesky 🎉 We're new here, so do say hello and help hook us up with all things #opera!

And to those we used to chat to on a *certain other platform* (ahem) and haven't seen for a while:

Thank you Ruth 👋 You are exactly right 🤭 – we’ll be announcing in a couple of weeks time!