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Congratulations to Garry Walker who was recently appointed Music Director designate of Opera North, and will take up the post of Music Director from August 2020. Once he is in post, he will conduct two opera productions and several symphonic concerts during each season, and will become embedded in the life of the company at all levels and across the...

Following his critically acclaimed world premiere of Sawer’s The Skating Rink for Garsington Opera, Garry Walker returns to the opera podium next month to conduct a double bill for Opera North in which the worlds of opera and dance collide: with Christopher Alden’s production of Puccini’s comic opera Gianni Schicchi paired with Stravinsky’s iconic ballet, The Rite of Spring. Now in his second...