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| Elena Urioste, Gary Walker & Orchestra of Opera North at Huddersfield City Corridor |
The Kirklees Live performance Season is a year-round programme of live shows offered by Opera North and Kirklees Council in Huddersfield and Dewsbury City Halls. This 12 months the Orchestra of Opera North is presenting seven live shows as a part of a season working from September 2025 to June 2026, together with one live performance from the Opera North Youth Orchestra. There are additionally seven chamber live shows showcasing and curated by musicians from the Orchestra of Opera North, and a sequence of lunchtime organ recitals on the Father Willis Organ in Huddersfield City Corridor.
Orchestra live shows start in Huddersfield City Corridor on 25 September 2025 with Gary Walker conducting Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Elena Urioste. In December, Chloe Rooke conducts music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Walton’s Viola Concerto with soloist Dana Zemtsov and music by Elgar and Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen.
In January 2026, the Father Willis organ in Huddersfield City Corridor will get to hitch in with Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3 with organist David Pipe and conductor Sora Elisabeth Lee, plus music by Ravel, Chabrier and Augusta Holmes. In February, Karel Deseure conducts music by Mozart, Stravinsky and Beethoven, then in March, Oliver Rundell conducts the Opera North Youth Orchestra in picks from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. [The Youth Orchestra is also performing on 14 December 2025 in St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield]
April sees Gary Walker conducting Thomas Ades, Rachmaninov and Brahms, and the season concludes in June with Katie Stilman directing Vivaldi’s The 4 Seasons from the violin.
Full particulars from the Opera North web site.
