🎻 Orchestra of Opera North rehearse Beethoven Symphony No. 1 ahead of tomorrow's Final Gala Concert Ryedale Festival (director Katie Stillman - Violinist) 👏👏👏

🤝 "No, let nothing separate us!" Celebrating #InternationalFriendshipDay with the friendship duet from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers — a friendship which (*spoiler*) doesn't end all too well... With Nico Darmanin, Quirijn de Lang and our Orchestra under Matthew Kofi Waldren

📢 We’re seeking applications from music creators of a Global Majority background working in any genre for our next #ONResonance residency. Are you interested in testing an exciting new possibility, telling a story through music, and more? Apply 👇 operanorth.co.uk/news/open-call…

Our friends Opera North warmly welcome applications for their 2024-25 Resonance residency programme, offering support for the development of new performance ideas. Applications are open until 12 August: operanorth.co.uk/news/open-call…

It's #YorkshireDay 💪 We're proud to be born and bred in Yorkshire, and to be part of the cultural fabric of Leeds and beyond: 🎟 20,000 tickets sold to this past opera season Leeds Grand Theatre 💃🏾 Smash hit collaborations with Phoenix Dance Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and more 🎶 15

#ONResonance is our residency programme for music creators from Global Majority backgrounds in the north of England 🙌 Applications for 2024-25 now open 👉 bit.ly/Resonance2025 Enabled by PRS Foundation's Talent Development Network

Our Box Office is closed for in-person bookings today. Our phone lines remain open. 📞 0113 223 3600

🏆 Prize draw! For just £5, you could win exclusive access to The Magic Flute rehearsals on stage Leeds Grand Theatre + a backstage tour, and chance to meet cast members. Enter by 6 Sep 👉 uk.givergy.com/opera-north/?c…

Proud of our Youth Company, who performed their moving 'Songs of Alchemy' Yorkshire Sculpture Park this past weekend. The piece was created in just a week (😮), after the young people's visit to Bharti Kher's powerful exhibition ‘Alchemies’. 📸: Justin Slee

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👏 "I've never seen it done in such a way before!" Audiences react to our Magic Flute back in 2019. It returns — opening Leeds Grand Theatre — next month, and rehearsals begin this week 👉 bit.ly/ONMagicFlute

✍️ Fascinating facsimilie of Mozart's autograph score to The Magic Flute, showing deletions (and fantastic ink splodge!) Explore the opera 👉 bit.ly/ONMagicFlute

I feel the need... the need for a blockbuster film with live soundtrack from the Orchestra of Opera North! 📽🎻 Hear smash hit Top Gun: Maverick as you've never heard it before Leeds Grand Theatre on 28 Oct 👉 bit.ly/ONTopGun

Wagner's Götterdämmerung premiered #OnThisDay in 1876 as part of the first full Ring cycle 🔥 Here's the whole 4+ hours condensed into just 60 seconds, from our Richard Farnes Conductor Cam! Watch #ONRing 👉 youtu.be/JWhRThHJGoE

🍰 'Hic!' This #BankHolidayWeekend, follow Albert on a rum-laced adventure. #ONHerring, filmed Howard Assembly Room earlier this year, is available to stream in full, for free via OperaVision 👉 youtu.be/kPe6bQJYmsE

🎻 We're recruiting for two positions in the Orchestra of Opera North 1st Violins: Co-Leader (No.2) and Associate Leader (No.3). Apply 👉 bit.ly/ON_Jobs

Our Green Season from last Autumn is up for the Sustainability Award The Opera Awards 🎉 Congrats to all involved! Winners announced on 2 Oct. See all #OperaAwards2024 nominees 👉 operaawards.org/archive/2024/

#ONMagicFlute is just around the corner! Pasquale Orchard (Papagena), Emyr Wyn Jones (Papageno) and Msimelelo Mbali (Sarastro) introduce the opera's plot... Book 👉 bit.ly/MagicFlute2425 Leeds Grand Theatre The Lowry TRCH Newcastle Theatre Royal Hull New Theatre

😁#FromCouchToChorus, our award-winning online singing sessions, are BACK! Since 2020, over 4,000 people from all over the world have taken part. Sessions are 5–26 November with a finale event where you'll sing along live with the Chorus of Opera North. operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/from-…