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Leeds Summer Solstice Festival - Midsummer's Night Music

For the first time since 1999, we are opening the doors of the Purana Gurudwara to invite you in for a mid-summer music dream.

This beautiful, history laden space will host the 13th Summer Solstice Festival dedicated to classical music traditions synonymous with Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Taking you on a spectacular music experience are talented torchbearers of the classical music tradition from the UK, India, and Australia.

Opera North: The Flying Dutchman

Step into the storm

Legend has it The Flying Dutchman is doomed to sail the ocean for all eternity. Only true and committed love can bring freedom. Once every seven years, the ship’s captain may set foot on land in search of it. Consumed by the sad tale, Senta is determined to be the woman to save the Dutchman. Will their chance meeting finally bring salvation, or tragedy?

Discover the legend for yourself in this new production by Annabel Arden, designed by Joanna Parker, with some of Wagner’s most bracing music to propel you through the storm.

Opera North: Love Life

In 1948 – the year of Love Life’s Broadway premiere – husband and wife Sam and Susan Cooper try to recall a time when their marriage was happy.

They reckon it was in 1790… The show then follows the ups and downs of the Coopers’ family life through 150 turbulent years of American history – during which they do not age – to paint the portrait of a marriage and of a nation.

Opera North: Ruddigore

Step into the mayhem

Bad baronet Sir Despard Murgatroyd has inherited a centuries-old curse – he must commit a crime a day or die in agony. That is, until the timid Robin Oakapple is revealed as his long-lost brother and the true inheritor of the curse. Blossoming romance will be dashed, and a chorus of ghosts will reappear when Robin’s feeble crimes don’t cut it with his ancestors. In this topsy-turvy world, is there a way to break the curse?

Opera North: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Step into the magic

An operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream traces a tangled web of relationships hurtling towards catastrophe. In the woods, meet the feuding Fairy King and Queen, and in Athens, meet a confused quadrangle of lovers. As these characters’ stories intertwine, one thing is inevitable… magic, mischief and mayhem are sure to follow.

Opera North: The Magic Flute

Step into the adventure

In one of the greatest operas ever written, the dashing prince Tamino is on a quest to find love and happiness. With the bird-catcher Papageno at his side and armed with a magic flute, he must battle trials, tribulations and an evil sorcerer to rescue the imprisoned Pamina. Yet just when success seems within reach, the Queen of the Night has a final surprise in store…

Jason Rebello

Celebrated British jazz pianist Jason Rebello was labelled a veteran by critics at 19 and over the next decade won most of the major jazz music awards.

Rebello toured for numerous years and appears on several recordings with Jeff Beck and Sting. Technique, diversity and adaptability have enabled Jason to work with artists across the musical spectrum such as Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pee Wee Ellis, Joss Stone, Madeline Peyroux, Manu 
Katche and recently Charlene Soraia.

Rose McLachlan

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonata no 18 in D Major, K576
Leoš Janáček - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905
Nitzan Vardi - Nocturne: As They Come & Go, from "22 Nocturnes for Chopin"
Caroline Wright - Nocturne: Reflections, from "22 Nocturnes for Chopin"
Zoe Rahman - Nocturne for Chopin, from "22 Nocturnes for Chopin"
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, op 41

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