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💪 Making Opera Vital
📍 Based in Leeds, touring the North and beyond
🎟 Discounted/free tickets for Under 30s
Public booking for our 2025-26 opera season now open at all venues — explore titles, performance dates, casting... and our brand new artwork for each show 🤩 Tell us what you think!

Book 👉 bit.ly/ON2526
June 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for #ONBoccanegra: "a superbly high-voltage concert staging" from @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/.../simon-bo....

Joining us? Tell us what YOU thought of Simon Boccanegra...

📸 James Glossop
April 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We open Simon Boccanegra tonight as part of @bradford2025.co.uk

👀 Here's a sneak peek...

Toi Toi Toi to our incredible cast, Chorus and Orchestra, everyone behind the scenes and all involved.
April 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Join the critically-acclaimed powerhouse that is the Chorus of Opera North!

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/ON-Jobs
April 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This June, Don Alfonso will be playing mind games with young lovers in the Leicestershire countryside — we're bringing Mozart's Così fan tutte (with two casts!) to Nevill Holt Festival.

Explore 👉 nevillholtfestival.com/events/cosi-...

Here's Siân Griffiths (Dorabella) © Craig Sugden Photography
April 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"We want to ensure everyone has a chance to experience the magic of #opera" — an intro to our newly-announced 2025–26 season from General Director Laura Canning.

Explore 👉 bit.ly/ON_2526
March 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
👋 Hello 2025–26! Explore 👉 bit.ly/ON_2526

An opera season with brand new productions, returning audience favourites, our next collaboration with @phoenixleeds.bsky.social and more...
March 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
⏰ Midday tomorrow: our 2025-26 opera season will be announced! Any guesses what's coming up? #ON2526
March 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Audiences (including 700 school children!) loving 'The Magic Flute' Lite at The Lowry this morning. Our favourite sound 🥹

This shorter version packs all the drama of Mozart's opera into less than two hours — perfect for schools, families and more 👉 bit.ly/MagicFluteLite
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📺 See Opera North and English National Opera on BBC Travel Show, who followed soprano Isabelle Peters and our 'Sing ON: Take to the Stage' participant Claire Throssell on an incredibly moving journey 👉 bbc.in/4ikayWh

"For two hours I'm transformed into something else, you get swept away" 🥹
March 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🎻 Two exciting opportunities in the #Orchestra of Opera North 👉 bit.ly/ON-Jobs

Section Principal Double Bass
First Violin No. 2 (Co-Leader)

Spread the word!
March 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
When you you meet a 'bird-catcher' 🐦🤔

Here's the "mellifluous baritone" (@theguardian.com) of Emyr Wyn Jones as Papageno.

We've got 2x packed out #ONMagicFlute performances in Newcastle this week, and can't wait to hear what everyone thinks...
March 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Opera North is on Bluesky 🎉 We're new here, so do say hello and help hook us up with all things #opera!

And to those we used to chat to on a *certain other platform* (ahem) and haven't seen for a while:
March 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM