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05/06/2026
Vote for what YOU want us to play 👉 bit.ly/Vote-Classics
This special outdoor concert features an audience choice piece! Choose from:
🎵Also Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss
🎵'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Peer Gynt Suite - Grieg
🎵'Dance of the Knights' from Romeo and Juliet - Prokofiev
🎵Adagio for Strings - Barber
Listen 👉 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tNuqAyFYp48EhoobWPvJQ?si=Dmr4BZvARhmBdhXhbYGYuQ
Voting closes 12pm Monday
NEW pay-what-you-can concert on Sun 28 Jun at Millennium Square! bit.ly/ClassicsInTheSquare
No rules. No dress code. Just incredible music played LIVE by the city's symphony orchestra: the Orchestra of Opera North.
AND there's an audience choice piece! Vote for what you want to hear and we'll play it 👉bit.ly/Vote-Classics
Introduced here by Lourenço and Susannah from our Orchestra.
Supported by Laidlaw Opera Trust and part of Leeds 400 celebrations
💧🌹🐱🧤📦 Some of our Favorite Things... From The Sound of Music, sung by Katie Bird with Olly Rundell at the piano
Can’t wait to hear – and see this on stage – with our von Trapp children and 40-piece orchestra!
This staged production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic music at Leeds Grand Theatre rom 9 July
01/06/2026
Now open! Our Don Pasquale "lands effortlessly” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (The Stage) at Nevill Holt Festival:
"its award-winning 400-seat theatre, built into a block of stables, is an apt setting for the playful horse-trading in Donizetti’s comic opera"
www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/don-pasquale-review-opera-north-nevill-holt-festival
James Hurley's production, designed especially for the space by Elliott Squire, draws on the glamour and nostalgia of mid-1960s Italian cinema...
Our second production in this five-year partnership with Nevill Holt Festival 💪
On until Sunday 🎟️
🦌 Doe – a deer, a female deer… ready for this to be an earworm for the next couple of months 😉
Orchestra of Opera North under conductor Olly Rundell recording this iconic track for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical The Sound of Music.
On at Leeds Grand Theatre, opening 9 July with this 40-piece orchestra in the pit 🎻
Book 👉bit.ly/ONSoundOfMusic
19/05/2026
A new chapter for the Howard Assembly Room! YUZU Street Food are our new food partners 🍜
Opening times:
Wed 12:00–8:30pm
Thu 12:00–8:30pm
Fri 12:00–9:00pm
Sat 12:00–9:00pm
Sun 12:00–8:00pm
Menu and book (but you can just drop in!) 👉 www.operanorth.co.uk/howard-assembly-room/yuzu-at-the-har/
It's all part of transforming the space previously Kino into the newly re-named HAR bar, an intimate venue in the cultural heart of Leeds with fresh coffee, quality cocktails and local beers including from Kirkstall Brewery — and now, award-winning East Asian-inspired street food!
With big, bright flavours taking inspiration from Japanese, Thai, Korean, and Chinese cuisine, we are loving what Yuzu is already bringing to our unique, Grade II-listed space.
Come and see us!
18/05/2026
More scenes from last week 🤩 Great to team up with The Queens Hotel, Leeds for this special pop-up performance with Katie Bird, ahead of The Sound of Music opening at Leeds Grand Theatre in July...
(yes it was as cold as it looks 🥶)
📸: Tom Arber Photography
16/05/2026
Yesterday, our Maria Katie Bird’s voice rang out across the city centre in The Sound of Music’s iconic title track – sung live from the balcony of The Queens Hotel, Leeds 😮
See more on BBC Look North 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002wcj0/look-north-yorkshire-evening-news-15052026
…and look out for the official video of this special moment next week 🎥
📸: Tom Arber Photography
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Howard Opera Centre, 8 Harrison Street
Leeds
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Opening Hours
| Monday | 10am - 8pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 8pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 8pm |
| Friday | 10am - 8pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 8pm |