Editing Opera North (section)

===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:
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* ''[[Les mamelles de Tirésias]]''  ([[Francis Poulenc|Poulenc]]) (1978)
* ''[[The Mines of Sulphur]]''  ([[Richard Rodney Bennett]]) (1980)
* ''[[A Village Romeo and Juliet]]''  ([[Frederick Delius|Delius]]) (1980)
* ''[[Prince Igor]]'' ([[Alexander Borodin]]) (1982)
* ''[[Béatrice et Bénédict|Beatrice and Benedict]]'' ([[Berlioz]]) (1983)
* ''[[Jonny spielt auf|Johnny Strikes Up]]''  ([[Ernst Krenek|Krenek]]) (1984, British première)
* ''[[Intermezzo (opera)|Intermezzo]]''  ([[Richard Strauss]]) (1986)
* ''[[Daphne (opera)|Daphne]]''  (Strauss) (1987, British première)
* ''[[La finta giardiniera]]'' ([[Mozart]]) (1989)
* ''[[Jérusalem]]'' ([[Verdi]]) (1990, British première)
* ''[[Ariane et Barbe-bleue|Ariane and Bluebeard]]''  ([[Paul Dukas|Dukas]]) (1990)
* ''[[Masquerade (Nielsen)|Masquerade]]''  ([[Carl Nielsen]]) (1990, British professional première)
* ''[[King Priam]]''  ([[Michael Tippett]]) (1991)
* ''[[L'étoile (opera)|L'étoile]]'' ([[Chabrier]]) (1991)
* ''[[The Jewel Box]]'' (Mozart, arranged by [[Paul Griffiths (writer)|Paul Griffiths]]) (1991)
* ''[[La gazza ladra|The Thieving Magpie]]'' ([[Rossini]]) (1992)
* ''[[Iolanta]]'' ([[Tchaikovsky]]) (1992)
* ''The Duenna'' ([[Roberto Gerhard]]) (1992, British première)
* ''[[Der ferne Klang]]'' ([[Schreker]]) (1992, British première)
* ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]'' ([[Ponchielli]]) (1993)
* ''[[Gloriana]]'' ([[Britten]]) (1993)
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* ''[[Il re pastore]]'' (Mozart) (1993)
* ''[[Il matrimonio segreto|The Secret Marriage]]'' ([[Domenico Cimarosa|Cimarosa]]) (1993)
* ''[[Oberto (opera)|Oberto]]'' (Verdi) (1994, British stage première)
* ''[[Le roi malgré lui|The Reluctant King]]'' (Chabrier) (1994, British stage première)
* ''[[Troilus and Cressida (opera)|Troilus and Cressida]]''  ([[William Walton]]) (1995)
* ''[[Hamlet (opera)|Hamlet]]'' ([[Ambroise Thomas]]) (1995)
* ''[[Médée (Cherubini)|Medea]]'' ([[Luigi Cherubini|Cherubini]]) (1996)
* ''[[Julietta]]'' ([[Martinů]]) (1997)
* ''[[Giovanna d'Arco|Joan of Arc]]'' (Verdi) (1998)
* ''[[Radamisto (Handel)|Radamisto]]'' ([[Handel]]) (2000)
* ''[[Genoveva]]'' ([[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]) (2000)
* ''[[Moscow, Cheryomushki|Paradise Moscow]]''  ([[Shostakovich]]) (2001)
* ''[[Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff)|Francesca da Rimini]]''  ([[Rachmaninov]]) (2004)
* ''[[L'occasione fa il ladro|Love's Luggage Lost]]'' (Rossini) (2004, British stage première)
* ''[[Djamileh]]'' ([[Bizet]]) (2004)
* ''[[La vida breve (opera)|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]]'' ([[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]) (2009)
* ''[[The Snow Maiden]]'' ([[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Rimsky-Korsakov]]) (2017)
* ''[[Trouble in Tahiti]]'' ([[Leonard Bernstein]]) (2017)
* ''[[The Greek Passion]]'' ([[Martinů]]) (2019)
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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 [[Richard Wagner|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 (playwright)|Lee Hall]] co-commissioned by Opera North and the sea-side resort of [[Bridlington]] premiered on 15 July 2011.

At the request of the Bridlington primary school whose 300 children performed in the opera, the company asked for the removal of an explicit reference to a gay character's sexuality from one of the scenes. Hall initially refused, and the opera was withdrawn.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/04/opera-beached-pulled-school-protests | title=Opera pulled after school protests over gay character | work=The Guardian | author=Mark Brown | date=3 July 2011 | access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref> However, following negotiations the matter was resolved when the character's contentious line "Of course I'm queer" was changed to "Of course I'm gay".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14064060  | title=Homophobia row opera to go ahead |work=BBC News| date=7 July 2011 | access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref>