Programme
Lesser Free Trade Hall, Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1962

Martha, a romantic comedy opera, is performed by the Northern School of Music. One of the Guardian reviews mentions it is "one of the oddities of operatic history. It has been slain by shafts of ridicule a hundred and one times." No pressure then chaps. However the performance itself was only let down by the small space of the venue, "its defects were largely those of the hall, which is acoustically unsympathetic under the best conditions, but is almost hostile when a large orchestra, struggling gamely with Flotow’s sometimes heavy scoring, is occupying space normally available to the audience."

Ref: NSM/20

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.