is not to appear with the company for the remainder of the 2016–2017 season. In June 2019, Opera North announced the appointments of Garry Walker as its next music director, and of Antony Hermus as its new principal guest conductor. Walker became music director effective with the 2020–2021 season. In October 2021, Opera North relocated their headquarters to the Howard Opera Centre, following an £18 million redevelopment. Characteristics of the company Repertory As well as presenting the bread-and-butter operas of the standard repertory, the company has performed a number of operas that are rarely seen in Britain. Examples include: Les mamelles de Tirésias (Poulenc) (1978) The Mines of Sulphur (Richard Rodney Bennett) (1980) A Village Romeo and Juliet (Delius) (1980) Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin) (1982) Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz) (1983) Johnny Strikes Up (Krenek) (1984, British première) Intermezzo (Richard Strauss) (1986) Daphne (Strauss) (1987, British première) La finta giardiniera (Mozart) (1989) Jérusalem (Verdi) (1990, British première) Ariane and Bluebeard (Dukas) (1990) Masquerade (Carl Nielsen) (1990, British professional première) King Priam (Michael Tippett) (1991) L'étoile (Chabrier) (1991) The Jewel Box (Mozart, arranged by Paul Griffiths) (1991) The Thieving Magpie (Rossini) (1992) Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) (1992) The Duenna (Roberto Gerhard) (1992, British première) Der ferne Klang (Schreker) (1992, British première) La Gioconda (Ponchielli) (1993) Gloriana (Britten) (1993) Il re pastore (Mozart) (1993) The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa) (1993) Oberto (Verdi) (1994, British stage première) The Reluctant King (Chabrier) (1994, British stage première) Troilus and Cressida (William Walton) (1995) Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas) (1995) Medea (Cherubini) (1996) Julietta (Martinů) (1997) Joan of Arc (Verdi) (1998) Radamisto (Handel) (2000) Genoveva (Schumann) (2000) Paradise Moscow (Shostakovich) (2001) Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninov) (2004) Love's Luggage Lost (Rossini) (2004, British stage première) Djamileh (Bizet) (2004) La vida breve (Manuel de Falla) (2004) La voix humaine (Poulenc) (2006) The Fortunes of King Croesus (Reinhard Keiser) (2007, British première) The Excursions of Mr Broucek (Janáček) (2009) The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov) (2017) Trouble in Tahiti (Leonard Bernstein) (2017) The Greek Passion (Martinů) (2019) In 2011, the company performed The Portrait by Mieczysław Weinberg and initiated an annual series of semi-staged concert performances of the four operas in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by performing Das Rheingold in Leeds Town Hall. Beached, a community opera by composer Harvey Brough with a libretto by Lee Hall co-commissioned by Opera North and the sea-side resort of Bridlington premiered on 15 July 2011. At the request of