Name: Film Music: From Mahler to Williams
Start: 2025-06-01T16:00:00
Location: Huddersfield Town Hall

Opera North is set to captivate audiences with a diverse range of performances in their upcoming season. From the timeless opera 'The Magic Flute' to the thrilling narrative of 'The Flying Dutchman,' each event promises to deliver unique experiences. Music lovers can also anticipate the debut of 'Simon Boccanegra,' a riveting Verdi opera, alongside varied musical performances, including classic symphonies and innovative jazz. This season highlights Opera North's dedication to offering something for everyone, ensuring an engaging and inclusive experience for all attendees.

Opera North's Diverse Season: A Journey Through Music and Drama

Opera North is set to enchant audiences with a series of compelling performances across the UK. Embark on a journey through the rich tapestry of Verdi's 'Simon Boccanegra', Prokofiev's 'Classical Symphony', and an exhilarating showcase of film music featuring iconic pieces from Mahler to Williams. With a roster of talented performers and a schedule that includes prestigious venues, Opera North invites you to experience the magic of opera and symphony like never before.

Opera North Unveils A Captivating Series of Musical Masterpieces

Opera North's 2025 season is set to be a thrilling journey through time and space, bringing audiences a taste of dramatic Italian opera, innovative Russian symphonies, and iconic film scores. From Verdi's 'Simon Boccanegra' to the orchestral genius of Prokofiev and the evocative film scores of Mahler and Williams, this season promises to captivate and enchant music lovers across the UK. With performances in prestigious venues, this is an unmissable lineup for both seasoned opera enthusiasts and new audiences alike.

Opera North: A Spectacular Showcase of Verdi, Prokofiev, and Cinematic Scores

Garry Walker

Opera North

An audio-visual journey through 16 years of incredible dance music and club culture. From the early days of acid house to huge rave anthems, 90s house and garage classics and the soaring sounds of the 00s superclub.

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The Grand Theatre & Opera House Leeds

Tatyana, a young woman living in the depths of the Russian countryside, falls hopelessly in love with Eugene Onegin, a dashing, cynical man of the world. Thinking her naïve, he casually rejects her. When, many years later, they meet again, Tatyana is married to another man and the toast of fashionable St Petersburg society. Too late Onegin realises that he loves Tatyana, with devastating consequences for them both.

Tchaikovsky adapted Pushkin’s great verse novel for the stage and set it to music that displays his gift for unforgettable melody – particularly in Tatyana’s famous ‘Letter Scene’ – and his genius for dance in the rural revels and the Petersburg ball scenes. The result is a deeply affecting portrait of love, regret and missed chances.

Eugene Onegin

Leeds Grand Theatre

Beth Orton has spent more than three decades establishing herself as a distinctive voice in British music. Her career is marked by a series of records that shift between musical styles – from the folktronica of her 1996 debut Trailer Park and the classic rock influences of Comfort of Strangers, to the self-produced Weather Alive in 2022.

Beth Orton

Breabach, one of Scotland’s most unique contemporary folk groups, combine Highland and Island Gaelic roots with modern influences. Their sound blends double bagpipes, whistle, fiddle, step‑dance and vocals with driving double‑bass and guitar, creating energetic, genre‑bending performances.

Brudenell Presents: Breabach

Rigoletto exists on the margins of a world owned by the privileged few – and is despised by them for his difference. Twisted inside by the life he has been forced to lead, the only thing he lives for is his daughter, Gilda, of whom he is obsessively protective. When a combination of bitterness and bravura gets the better of him, the consequences for his most precious possession are fatal.

This bold, award-winning production by leading UK theatre artist Femi Elufowoju Jr is opera at its most gripping: a thrilling tale of power, love and revenge that includes one of opera’s most famous aria, ‘La donna è mobile’.

Rigoletto

Jasmine Myra’s music is built on a sense of atmosphere – a lush, instrumental storytelling that balances the delicate with the powerful. Based for many years in Leeds before moving to London, Myra has developed a distinctive voice within the UK jazz scene, drawing on a wide range of influences from the emotive scores of film soundtracks to the textures of contemporary folk and the natural world.

Jasmine Myra

Eddi Reader delivers emotionally rich, intimate performances that evolve with each show. Known for Fairground Attraction’s chart-topping Perfect she has built a solo career that weaves Scottish folk roots with pop, soul, jazz and contemporary singer‑songwriter styles.

Eddi Reader

Aladdinsane, The Sound & Vision of Bowie is a UK‑based tribute act that recreates David Bowie’s music and stage persona. Frontman Paul Henderson performs as Bowie, delivering vocal and physical impressions that many audience members describe as strikingly accurate.

Aladdinsane

The Slow Show invites you to a very special concert in 2026. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album White Water, they will present their timeless songs in a new light – more touching, more intense, and closer than ever before. Their blend of melancholic indie, orchestral expansiveness, and Rob Goodwin‘s unmistakable voice unfolds with an emotional power that gets under your skin. Anyone who loves music that begins quietly and works its way deep into the heart shouldn’t miss this evening – a rare concert experience full of longing, beauty, and atmosphere.

The Slow Show

Jasper Høiby’s 3Elements trio performs music from their third album, Conversations of Hope. As a founding member of the group Phronesis – a band that spent years redefining the modern piano trio, Høiby continues to centre his work around collective momentum and structured risk.

Jasper Høiby’s 3Elements

Cara Dillon is a Northern Irish folk singer renowned for her clear, expressive voice and deep connection to traditional music. Since her debut solo album in 2001, which won two BBC Folk Awards, she has released eight further albums that blend classic folk songs with original material.

Cara Dillon

May the Force be with the Orchestra of Opera North as it embarks on a journey through space, time, and the realms of witchcraft.

Film Music: From Mahler to Williams

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