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From Couch to Chorus: Sing into Spring with Opera North

Wed 24 Feb to Thu 18 Mar 2021 (3 weeks)

From Couch to Chorus: Sing into Spring with Opera North

Opera North are running From Couch to Chorus: Sing into Spring for singers of all levels, from complete beginners to experienced choir-goers. If you don’t read music or know your voice type, don’t worry, you’ll be provid.....Read more

Summertime with the Chorus of Opera North

Thu 14 Jul 2022

Summertime with the Chorus of Opera North

Join members of the Chorus of Opera North as they take you on a promenade through the hottest season of the year with music ranging from Monteverdi and Fauré to Gershwin and Cole Porter, plus some songs inspired by home .....Read more

Organ Concert Online: Gordon Stewart 23 November, 1pm

Mon 23 Nov 2020

Organ Concert Online: Gordon Stewart 23 November, 1pm

Gordon Stewart's online organ concert on 23 November brings you a world premier performance. Towards the end of his life Noel Rawsthorne was writing a partita based on the chorale Ein’ feste Burg dedicated to Gordon Ste.....Read more

Organ Concert Online: Gordon Stewart 7 December, 1pm

Mon 07 Dec 2020

Organ Concert Online: Gordon Stewart 7 December, 1pm

With Christmas just round the corner Gordon Stewart plays a programme featuring music based on Christmas themes from four countries. Local composer Robert Cockroft is included with his charming Variations on a New Noël .....Read more

Highlands of Home: Arnold, Debussy, Bruch, Mendelssohn

Thu 20 Sep 2018

Highlands of Home: Arnold, Debussy, Bruch, Mendelssohn

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Garry Walker returns to Huddersfield to open the Kirklees Concert Season with a programme inspired by his homeland. Scottish landscapes have captured the imaginations o.....Read more

Wings with live score

Thu 18 Oct 2018

Wings with live score

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 We mark the centenary of both the end of World War I and the formation of the Royal Air Force with a special screening of the 1927 silent film, Wings, with Carl Davis’ 199.....Read more

The Songs of War: Will Todd and Górecki

Thu 22 Nov 2018

The Songs of War: Will Todd and Górecki

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Former Music Director of Opera North, Richard Farnes returns to the helm of the Orchestra to present the world premiere of Will Todd’s Songs of Love and Battle. Dedicated .....Read more

The Gruffalo’s Child and The Highway Rat

Thu 13 Dec 2018

The Gruffalo’s Child and The Highway Rat

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Our family event is a double-bill of Julia Donaldson creations accompanied live by René Aubry’s original orchestral scores. When the Gruffalo’s child disobeys her fathe.....Read more

Opera North Christmas Concert - Dewsbury

Thu 20 Dec 2018

Opera North Christmas Concert - Dewsbury

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Garry Walker makes his second visit to the Kirklees Concert Season to conduct the Orchestra of Opera North and the massed voices of the Chorus of Opera North, Opera Nor.....Read more

The Viennese Whirl

Sat 29 Dec 2018

The Viennese Whirl

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 See out the old year and welcome in the new with a celebratory concert from the Orchestra of Opera North, with conductor Christopher Bell guiding you through this annual f.....Read more

Music of Consequence: Wagner, Ravel and Shostakovich

Thu 24 Jan 2019

Music of Consequence: Wagner, Ravel and Shostakovich

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Few pieces demonstrate the effects of war more starkly than Ravel’s Piano Concerto in D major, written for the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm.....Read more

Russian Spirits: Lyadov, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev

Sun 24 Feb 2019

Russian Spirits: Lyadov, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 The legendary Russian nymph, Kikimora, inspired Lyadov’s tone poem for orchestra, feeding the composer’s fascination with folklore. Darkly expressive, the piece evokes .....Read more

Reflections: Lutoslawski, Strauss and Bruckner

Thu 04 Apr 2019

Reflections: Lutoslawski, Strauss and Bruckner

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Following her vibrant UK début at the Kirklees Concert Season in March 2018, Dalia Stasevska returns to conduct the Kirklees Concert Season finale, as well as making her L.....Read more

Lunchtime Concert: Bite-sized Gilbert and Sullivan

Wed 19 Sep 2018

Lunchtime Concert: Bite-sized Gilbert and Sullivan

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 A delightful romp through the risqué wit of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas. Jeremy Peaker (Chorus of Opera North and formerly D’Oyly Carte) and friends will guide you th.....Read more

Lunchtime Concert: Whistle Stop Opera

Wed 10 Oct 2018

Lunchtime Concert: Whistle Stop Opera

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2018/2019 Never tried opera before? Dip your toe in with Opera North’s brilliant pop up opera. Be entertained by a group of professional opera singers and an accordionist, who will .....Read more

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