Please select a show from the drop-down menu: The Bartered Bride Betrothal in a Monastery Cenerentola The Cunning Little Vixen Don Pasquale The Elixir of Love Falstaff Fortunio La Gazza Ladra A Midsummer Night's Dream Manon Manon Lescaut Pénèlope Peter Grimes Samson Wozzeck

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'The producer Daniel Slater, experienced in the theatre but less so in music, has scored a bull’s-eye with his first major production ... It all adds up to a little masterpiece of ensemble acting and direction ... The show zips along, joyfully, liberatingly. Pure heaven.'
Times, September 1998

'Here is Opera North scoring a big hit and making it all look so easy.'
Financial Times, September 1998

'Daniel Slater’s new production will be hard to beat.'
Independent, September 1998

'Daniel Slater’s entirely-to-the-point production makes for one of the most enjoyable new shows I’ve seen for a long time.'
Independent on Sunday, September 1998

'Daniel Slater’s lively and inventive new production ... If you want to introduce someone to the delights of opera, this is the one to take them to.'
Observer, September 1998

'Here is a production with plenty to say and something for everyone. It will surely return again and again.'
Opera, December 1998

'Glyndebourne’s effort certainly ranks higher than the horribly false show put on by the Royal Opera, but the bet taken out last autumn that Opera North’s witty and humane production would sweep the board was a stake well placed.'
Financial Times, July 1999

'Daniel Slater’s groundbreaking production ... In fact, it’s one of the most vivaciously animated productions in years.'
Guardian, January 2004

'When it was staged five years ago this production, by Daniel Slater, was my favourite among the deluges of Brides with which we were then inundated ... by far the most convincing argument for opera in English that I have encountered for a very long time.'
Spectator, January 2004