OPERA NORTH PROJECTS ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH

Opera North Projects creates a year-round festival of music, film, performance and spoken word. From our home in Leeds, the Howard Assembly Room, to festivals, outdoor spaces and in our communities, we break down barriers and challenge artists to push their creativity.

This year we will expand our work supporting global majority music creators to make new, genre-busting music theatre, through our Resonance artist residencies and our Resonance Connect film commissions with Sky Arts. We will complete our People’s Lullabies films, and commission a new artwork that brings together science and culture through the DARE partnership with the University of Leeds. Look out too for our Light Night sound installation, and annual Solstice concert with SAA-uk, both in the Howard Assembly Room.

Watch this space: operanorth.co.uk/projects

From taking centre stage in Opera North’s legendary Ring cycle, to playing with 80s pop icons to an audience of thousands outdoors in Millennium Square in Leeds, to regular appearances in major concert series throughout the region, the Orchestra of Opera North is renowned for its adaptability and its artistry, and holds a unique place in British orchestral life.

Highlights of the 2023/24 orchestral season include:

Music Director Garry Walker conducting Dvořák’s

New World Symphony and Mahler’s First Symphony

Scottish pianist Steven Osborne returning to the Kirklees Concert Season to perform Ravel’s Piano

Concerto in G Major

Internationally acclaimed guest conductors Joanna

Carniero, Julia Jones and Andrew Grams

View our listings: operanorth.co.uk/orchestra