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Revision as of 22:27, 16 March 2008
- This is about the British organisation; for the unrelated American one, see Opera North (U.S.).
Opera North is a British opera company. It is based at the Grand Theatre in Leeds, England, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford, the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, the Bradford Alhambra, and the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield. The company's orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, regularly performs and records in its own right. Operas are usually, but not always, performed in English.
Opera North was founded in 1977, and its first performance (of Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah) was given on 15 November, 1978. It started life as an offshoot of English National Opera, and was known until 1981 as English National Opera North. It had the specific intention of delivering high-quality opera to the northern areas of the country which, up to that point, had no regular opera company. With the name change to Opera North, the official ties with English National Opera ceased to exist.
The founding Music Director of Opera North was David Lloyd-Jones (1977-1990). He was succeeded by Paul Daniel (1990-1997), Steven Sloane (1999-2002) and Richard Farnes (2004- ). Elgar Howarth was designated Principal Guest Conductor of the company between 1985 and 1988, and held the temporary post of Music Advisor during the, as it were, interregnum between Daniel and Sloane.
Awards
- Winner of the TMA Theatre Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera 2007 (for Peter Grimes, directed by Phyllida Lloyd),[1] and in 2004
- Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Opera & Music Theatre 2007 (for Peter Grimes)[2] and in 2005
- Winner of the South Bank Show Award for Opera 2007 (for Peter Grimes)[3] and 2005 (for its Eight Little Greats season of one-act operas)[4]
- Winner of the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for Opera 2004
- Winner of the Audiences Yorkshire Award for Best Overall Marketing and Audience Development Campaign 2004