Event listing: The Portrait | Leeds Grand Theatre | Wed 2 Feb 2011 at 19:30

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Leeds Grand Theatre Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 6NZ, United Kingdom

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Weinberg, Mieczysław (1919-1996)

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Opera North
Paul Nilon	Tenor	Chartkov
Katherine Broderick	Soprano	Liza
Richard Burkhard	Baritone	Nikita
Peter Savidge	Baritone	Professor / Journalist / Art Dealer
Nicholas Sharratt	Tenor	Lamplighter / Noble Gentleman

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Opera North stage the UK premiere of Weinberg's The Portrait

Laura Kate Wilson, 4th February

The operas of Mieczyslaw Weinberg are being pulled out of obscurity. Until the 2010 Bregenz Festival, when director David Pountney placed the composer at the centre of the three-day event and staged an ambitious production of the The Passenger, none of his seven operas had ever been heard outside of Russia.

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