What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Singers from Opera North visited BITMOs GATE centre in Belle Isle today (23 October 2017) to perform their Whistelstop guide to opera. The half hour show cleverly stitched together songs (arias) from a range of operas to form a simple story of a couple falling in love, out of love
Music lessons at Windmill Primary School were given an international flavour on Friday (13 October 2017) as pupils are joined by two of the Master Trainers from the British Council’s music education initiative, World Voice. Around eighty children in Years 3-5 pupils from Windmill Primary School and Low Road Primary School came
Belle Isle TMO Be entertained by a group of proper opera singers and an accordionist, who will make you laugh – maybe even cry – in half an hour packed with comedy, deceit, love and tragedy! BITMOs GATE at 12.30pm on Monday 23 October 2017. Be treated to scenes and
Pupils from a primary school in Hunslet are preparing to sing on some of the finest stages in the country as they get ready to join Opera North for its forthcoming performances of Puccini’s Turandot. The 8 to 10-year-olds are from Low Road Primary School, which is part of the
With the start of the new school year, over 1,000 pupils each week will now be benefiting from Opera North’s award-winning In Harmony community residency as the Company introduces the project into a third primary school in South Leeds. In Harmony was created with the aim of enriching lives, improving
A week-long festival of performance and music-making took place recently, as over 650 children from the Windmill and Low Road Music Federation celebrated the successful completion of Low Road Primary School’s first In Harmony year with Opera North. From concerts and a ceilidh in a ‘Big Top’ in the school
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Beeston, where the Asha Neighbourhood Project is preparing to mark their 30th anniversary next year. They’ve been out planting daffodil bulbs in resident’s gardens on Stratford
Last Wednesday (9 July 2014) pupils from Windmill Primary School in Belle Isle took part in a concert at Leeds Town Hall with the orchestra and chorus of Opera North and the City of Leeds Youth Orchestra. This was the second Town Hall concert that the school has held
Opera North’s flagship music education project, In Harmony Opera North, has won the award for ‘Best Classical Music Education Initiative’ at the Music Teacher Awards, sponsored by Classic FM. In Harmony Opera North launched in January 2013 and is the only In Harmony programme that is delivered by an
A South Leeds music project is up for a national award and they need your vote. In Harmony Opera North has been shortlisted for the Best Classical Music Initiative in the national Music Teacher Awards sponsored by Classic FM. In Harmony Opera North launched in January 2013 and is