Review: Opera North: La Bohème at LOWRY is 'a wonderful adaption of the classic to suit modern audiences'

La Bohème – The Lowry

Phyllida Lord’s classic production, designed by Anthony Ward, is one of the longest running at Opera North having been in their repertoire since 1993. James Hurley’s current revival is big on the comedy but sadly fails to hit the high notes that this staple of the operatic calendar deserves. With the action transposed to late 1950’s Paris, we meet four struggling bohemians living in a garret: a poet, Rodolfo (Anthony Ciaramitaro); a painter, Mar…

review: Lost Atom at The Lowry

Rating: 3 out of 5. Frantic Assembly explore how memory taints and transfigures love in 30th anniversary production Imagine if the memories of your last relationship, good, bad, and somewhere complicated in between, were crammed into hundreds of drawers in a huge, charcoal filing cabinet. Imagine climbing on these drawers, dancing over them, rummaging through them with your ex partner and, as you reminisce, finding that perhaps your memories are…

Review: Opera North: La Bohème at LOWRY is 'a wonderful adaption of the classic to suit modern audiences'

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