You’d normally expect to pay top dollar to be entertained by international opera stars at a premiere. But last Saturday a Northumberland audience got real value for money. Swap a box at La Scala for the stalls of Blyth’s Phoenix theatre, get the performers to wrap their powerful vocal cords around broad Geordie lyrics and …
Nine o’clock on Tuesday morning at Newcastle Civic Centre and children from across the city are trooping in for a spot of opera to get the day off to a rousing and harmonious start. It’s not every morning that a six-year-old from Fenham has a date with a singer who has performed on the operatic …
Bloke pops his head round the door of the gents’ during the interval. “Goodness,” he chortles. “There’s as many in here as on the stage.” A lot can be drawn from that observation. The opera-going demographic does lean towards the generation for whom the loo is half time ‘must’ (although there were young heads in …
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