Patrick Lange is Opera North’s Music Director designate

Opera North announces Two Key Leadership Appointments

Patrick Lange

Patrick Lange appointed Music Director designate
Merran McRae appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees

Opera North announces two significant appointments as it continues to ensure opera remains a vital part of the cultural offering in Leeds and further afield. For more information click here.

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An excellent concert as the Clandeboye Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Clandeboye Festival 2026 [1] – Various: Michael McHale (piano), Ellen Jansson (piano), William Curran (clarinet), Sinéad O’Halloran (cello), Killian White (cello), Mairéad Hickey (violin). Clandeboye Estate, County Down, Northern Ireland, 24.8.2026. (RB)

Killian White (cello), Mairead Hickey (violin) and Michael McHale (piano) © Norah O’Leary

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Currentzis, Grigorian and Tetelman overcome Carrizo’s choreographic oddities in Salzburg’s Carmen

AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2026 [1] – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Utopia Choir (chorus master: Vitaly Polonsky), Salzburg Bach Choir (chorus master: Michael Schneider), Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor (chorus masters: Wolfgang Götz, Regina Sgier), Utopia Orchestra / Teodor Currentzis (conductor). Filmed (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, on 8.8.2026 and streamed on STAGE+ on 9.8.2026. (JPr)

Eurudike De Beul (Don José’s Mother), Jonathan Tetelman (Don José) and Kristina Mkhitaryan (Micaëla) © SF/Thomas Aurin

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Rienzi marches up Bayreuth’s Green Hill: political corruption and a hidden family secret blights lives

GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [3] – Wagner, Rienzi: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra od the Bayreuth Festival / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor). Livestreamed on STAGE+ (directed by Michael Beyer) from the Bayreuth Fespielehaus, 26.7.2026. (JPr)

Rienzi first scene © BF/Enrico Nawrath

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Clay Hilley’s singing and acting was the highlight of Pappano’s excellent Tristan und Isolde with his LSO

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, London Symphony Chorus (director: Mariana Rosas), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 12.7.2026. (JPr)

Gyula Orendt as Kurwenal and Clay Hilley as Tristan (1 July performance) © Mark Allan

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