Opera North Announces 2010/11 Programme

Opera North is to launch its first full season of the new decade with a repertoire consisting entirely of new productions. This is with the notable exception of Jonathan Dove’s hugely successful The Adventures of Pinocchio which returns by popular demand to get things off to a spectacular start. The broad range of works has been brought together to offer appeal to audiences of all ages and tastes.

Joining The Adventures of Pinocchio on the autumn tour and in a special Christmas season at Leeds Grand Theatre, is Lehár’s The Merry Widow and with a brand new radical working of Carmen opening in early 2011, there are three popular, but highly contrasting works to anchor the season.

Britten’s Turn of the Screw after Henry James, Janáèek’s From the House of the Dead after Dostoevsky and notably, The Portrait by the exceptional, but little known, Weinberg, inspired by one of Gogol’s Petersburg Tales comprise a folio of Operas based on works by major literary figures. Beethoven’s Fidelio is introduced to complement From the House of the Dead and Carmen to constitute a ‘Freedom’ themed season.

Opera North will round the season off with a new beginning – the Company’s first complete Ring cycle, which will commences with Das Rheingold in concert in the summer of 2011. The rest of the tetralogy will roll out over the next three years.

Full details of the repertoire, casting and creative teams will be announced in May.