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Opera

Ebullience and majesty: Opera North’s Falstaff reviewed

7 October 2023

9:00 AM

7 October 2023

9:00 AM

Falstaff

Grand Theatre, Leeds, in rep until 25 October then touring until 18 November

Opera North has launched a ‘Green Season’, which means (among other things) that the sets and costumes for its new Falstaff are recycled. On one level, that’s nothing new: this eternally underfunded company has been performing miracles of sustainability for years now, and there’s usually at least one production each season that looks like it’s been cobbled together from the lumber room.

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