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Of Parisian taxis and fairy tales: The Orchestra of Opera North at Leeds Town Hall

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Reviewed at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds on 11 April 2015
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Shostakovich, Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet and string orchestra, Op.35
Ravel, Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose): Suite
Stravinsky, The Firebird: Suite
Orchestra of Opera North
Kees Bakels, Conductor
Federico Colli, Piano
John Findon triumphs in the return of Opera North’s Peter Grimes
*****
Opera North’s Susanna: how a woman stood up to her abusers
****1
To be or not to be: Hamlet returns to the Buxton Festival
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Opera North’s “fleeing” Dutchman links to plight of asylum seekers
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Opera North’s gleeful Magic Flute revived
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Similarities and differences explored in Opera North's Cav and Aleko
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