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Thinking with Opera

Explore the thrilling world of opera and its component parts in our series of podcasts, produced as part of the DARE partnership between Opera North and the University of Leeds.

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Thinking with Opera 07: Paul Mason and Frank Finlay on Parsifal

Thinking with Opera 07: Paul Mason and Frank Finlay on Parsifal

“What is the tension between this ugly ideology, the beauty of the music, and the agony of the man producing it?”The fin... Read more

23 Jun 2022

46mins

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Thinking with Opera 06: Parsifal with Alex Ross and Dr. Áine Sheil

Thinking with Opera 06: Parsifal with Alex Ross and Dr. Áine Sheil

In the second of three episodes focusing on Wagner's epic final opera, New Yorker critic and author of Wagnerism and The... Read more

22 Jun 2022

50mins

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Thinking with Opera 04: Simon Armitage and Gavin Bryars on Words and Music

Thinking with Opera 04: Simon Armitage and Gavin Bryars on Words and Music

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Gavin Bryars in expansive conversation about their respective art forms, and w... Read more

10 Mar 2021

1hr 10mins

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Thinking with Opera 03: Thomas Adès and Operas of Confinement

Thinking with Opera 03: Thomas Adès and Operas of Confinement

How do music, plot, staging, action, dance and performance combine to produce meaning for an opera audience?Taking a clo... Read more

13 Jan 2021

50mins

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Thinking with Opera 02: Carnivalesque

Thinking with Opera 02: Carnivalesque

From Monteverdi to Monty Python, cross-dressing, gross-out humour and a preoccupation with the grotesque seems to offer ... Read more

29 Jul 2020

1hr 3mins

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Thinking with Opera 01: Performing Violence

Thinking with Opera 01: Performing Violence

“In cinema you are a spectator; in opera you are present. I’m fascinated by the notion that we witness in opera: we have... Read more

16 Jul 2020

1hr 1min

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