Orchestra of Opera North Concert: Triumph Over Tragedy

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2021/22

Garry Walker takes to the podium for his first Kirklees concert as Opera North’s new Music Director, with a programme steeped in nostalgia and powerful human emotion.
Britten returns to older folk melodies and traditions in ‘A Time There Was’, written in his later years when he produced some of his most beautiful music.

Guy Johnston, one of the most exciting British cellists of his generation, is our guest soloist for Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a deeply moving elegy for a lost generation written in the shadow of the First World War, while Shostakovich’s miraculous Fifth Symphony brought him back into favour with the Soviet regime, at the same time as it attacked Stalin’s crushing oppression in the most intense musical terms.

Orchestra of Opera North
Conductor: Gary Walker
Cello: Guy Johnston

Britten : ‘A Time There Was’
Elgar : Cello Concerto
Shostakovich : Symphony No. 5

BOOK THIS CONCERT HERE: www.bit.ly/Orchestral23Sept

Time: 7.30 pm
Free pre-show talk starts at 6.40pm

This concert is part of the subscription package.

HOW TO BOOK for the Kirklees Concert Season:

Kirklees Town Halls Box Office
Phone: 01484 225755
Online: www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk
In person: Holmfirth Visitor Information Centre; Huddersfield Visitor Information Centre & Dewsbury Box Office

Opera North Box Office
Phone: 0113 223 3600
email: boxoffice@operanorth.co.uk
Online: www.operanorth.co.uk
In person: Check www.operanorth.co.uk/contact-us

PRICES AND DISCOUNTS:
Tickets:
Full price: £13 - £27
Concessions: £11 - £24
Under 30's: £4
16 and under: £1

Booking fee may apply.

Subscription tickets can be booked up to 23 September 2021 through Kirklees Town Hall Box Office Tel: 01484 225 755.

BROCHURE - Our handy brochure of ‘what’s on’ can be found here:
www.bit.ly/21-22KCSBrochure

To request a large print, braille or audio copy of the brochure, please contact Opera North on 0113 223 3600.

For more information visit https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/town-halls/concert-season.aspx