OPERA CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
OPERA CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Opera Concerts in Manchester
RNCM Opera Scenes
Tuesday 9 - Thursday 18 June 2026
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...
The Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss
Tuesday 9 June 2026
The finalists of the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss, from the RNCM's School of Vocal Studies and Opera, present individually selected programmes from Richard Strauss' extraordinary repertoire. The Joyce and Micha...
BBC Philharmonic - Mahler's Symphony No 2 Resurrection
Saturday 13 June 2026
Mahler's Resurrection is a colossal work of drama, beauty, and power. From its gripping opening funeral march to its earth-shaking finale, this is music on the grandest possible scale that demands to be experienced live. This is a work th...
City of Manchester Opera - Tosca
Saturday 13 - Sunday 14 June 2026
City of Manchester Opera present Puccini's Tosca. Tosca - A woman cornered by patriarchy and politics who takes control in the only way the world allows her. Originally set in Rome in June 1800, this production reflects on 1940's Italy at a...
Tenor Martin Toal's Summer Variety Concert
Thursday 2 July 2026
Back by popular demand TENOR MARTIN TOAL'S SUMMER VARIETY CONCERTINCLUDING FAVOURITE SONGS, MUSIC & DANCE FROM THE WORLD OF OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE, AND INCLUDING A ROUSING SINGALONG LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS FINALE. Following his 2024 sell-o...
Grindr The Opera!
Wednesday 5 - Saturday 29 August 2026
Grindr The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, Grindr: The Opera! is a daring, humorous look at the changing landscape of gay rela...
Michael Ball
Monday 14 September 2026
Michael Ball OBE is a Laurence Olivier award-wining, chart-topping, Platinum-selling artist who started out as an actor in West End productions such as Les Miserables in 1985, The Phantom of the Opera in 1987, and Aspects of Love, in 198...
Katherine Jenkins
Friday 2 October 2026
Cherished as one of Britain's all-time favourite singers, multi-award winning Katherine Jenkins has performed all over the world, for the Pope, for Presidents and is a favourite of the Royal Family, having been invited to sing 'God Save The...
The Hallé and Opera Rara: Offenbach's Barkouf
Sunday 4 October 2026
What happens when man's best friend becomes head-of-state? Opera Rara and the Halle team up once again to present Offenbach's opera Barkouf, where a dog rules the day. Step into the absurd political world of Offenbach's Barkouf - a riotous ...
Opera North - Rigoletto
Thursday 12 - Saturday 14 November 2026
This bold, award-winning production of Verdi's classic opera by Femi Elufowoju Jr was lauded with rave reviews and star ratings when it was first performed in 2022. It is opera at its most gripping: a thrilling tale of power, devotion...
Opera North - Eugene Onegin
Friday 13 November 2026
Opera North's co-production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classic with Irish National Opera and Opera Queensland. Tchaikovsky's most popular opera is a heart-breaking tale of love, regret and missed chances. His music is famed for its emo...
Opera North - Don Giovanni
Wednesday 3 - Friday 5 March 2027
Alessandro Talevi's eclectic production for Opera North follows the legendary womaniser, whose outward charm masks cruelty and violence, through time and space, bringing fresh insights to Mozart's darkest, craziest opera. As he seduces hi...
Opera North - The Big Opera Mystery
Thursday 4 March 2027
Aimed at Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11), this operatic extravaganza, with music played live by the Orchestra of Opera North, will give children an inspiring first encounter with opera. An expert thief is on the loose, and only you can catch them!...
Opera North - Dead Man Walking
Saturday 6 March 2027
Opera North's co-production with English National Opera and Finnish National Opera, based on the memoir by Sister Helen Prejean, of Dead Man Walking is one of the most widely acclaimed and frequently performed operas of the past 25 years. I...
Opera North - Tristan and Isolde
Sunday 9 May 2027
This is the latest in Opera North's sequence of award-winning concert stagings. Tristan und Isolde is one of the most significant works in western art. After it, music could never be the same again. It is a hymn to a love that transcends...
English National Opera - Einstein on the Beach
Tuesday 1 June 2027
Einstein on the Beach is a new experiential production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's iconic 1976 opera, created by English National Opera, Factory International, Park Avenue Armory and Improbable. It will premiere in June 2027 at...
