Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
How about a trip to The Tetley this Easter. OK, we can’t go in person just yet, but thanks to modern technology, we can have a private viewing of this new exhibition by Mel Brimfield. I’m not talking about a series of photographs of the items on display but a 3D interactive tour complete with…
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No, I haven’t changed my spell checker to the Italian version, I thought it appropriate to bid one of Leeds’ favourite regular events a warm welcome back. On 4th November last year I was covering a performance at Leeds Playhouse which didn’t begin until 8.00pm and so I thought that I would kill two birds…
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After Fidelio and La Petite Bohème, Opera North’s third Christmas streaming is the perennial favourite, Cinderella. This is not the big budget blockbuster with an eighty piece orchestra and a Grand Ball scene to rival that of any Hollywood extravaganza of the 1930s, no, this is the Whistle Stop version comprising three actors, a piano…
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What would Christmas be without a dose of Dickens? Probably a lot merrier! Although the theme of the novel is one of redemption, it is still a dark work and not the stuff of sleigh rides and jingle bells. This interpretation, however, has jollied it up but I fear that it has dropped down the…
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La Petite Bohème is a sort of stylised pop video but for a piece of opera. I suppose that could make it an op video. I did indeed remind me of those wonderful pre-war animations which used to be shown on The Old Grey Whistle Test to give some obscure album track a bit of…
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As we all suspected 2020 has ended in tiers! Sadly the status of Leeds has not changed which means that there will be no live performances but we can still enjoy some fine productions which are being streamed on line. Leeds Playhouse A Christmas Carol, this year’s festive offering from Leeds Playhouse, will now be…
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I feel as though Santa Claus has delivered my Christmas present a couple of weeks early. I am sure that you will be thoroughly sick of my moaning about how streaming of opera and other theatrical performances comes nowhere near the live versions, well, this one certainly does! The reason for the success of this…
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I know that I am a little late with this but I have purposely waited so as to make sure that the events I am writing about are certain (or as certain as things can be these days) to take place. I am getting quite disheartened at the amount of emails I am receiving from…
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Now that we are out of lockdown we can turn our thoughts to preparing for Christmas. Whilst Amazon and the online platforms of the major stores have provided some of the stuff we need, there is nothing like strolling round a Christmas Market and buying hand made local produce. Despite the odds, Yeadon Town Hall…
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It might not be opera as we would like to experience it, but nevertheless it was a great way to spend 40 minutes on an otherwise dull Saturday evening in lockdown. Regular readers will know that I have been less than impressed by the on-line versions of operas which have been filmed from the stage…
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