(Photo Credit: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian) Bradford Opera Festival will present a new production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” this November. The work, adapted by poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan, will head to Wilton’s Music Hall in London from Nov. 23 – 25, 2026. The production relocates Mozart’s comic masterpiece to 1970s Bradford, blending Yorkshire dialect with a score {…}
The Bradford Opera Festival will present the world premiere of “The Last Machine Breaker: An Opera on Luddites, AI & Revolution.” The opera by composer Ben Crick and librettist Kamal Kaan, commissioned by the Festival and funded by the Arts Council, explores the parallels between the Industrial Revolution of 1812 and the modern-day AI revolution in the context of two intertwining {…}
Bradford Opera Festival is set to premiere a new adaptation of Rossini’s most famous opera on Nov. 23, 2023. The showcase of “The Barber of Seville” will present the opera classic in Yorkshire dialect as adapted by Ian McMillan. The event will feature the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and Bradford Festival Choral Society with Alex Chisholm directing and Ben Crick conducting. {…}