Editing Opera North (section)

===World premieres===
Opera North has given world premières of the following operas: ''Rebecca'' by [[Wilfred Josephs]] (1983), ''Caritas'' by [[Robert Saxton]] (1991), ''Baa, Baa, Black Sheep'' by [[Michael Berkeley]] (1993), ''Playing Away'' by [[Benedict Mason]] (1994), ''The Nightingale's to Blame'' by [[Simon Holt]] (1998), [[Jonathan Dove]]'s ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' (2007) and ''Swanhunter'' (2009), and ''Skin Deep'' by [[David Sawer]] and [[Armando Iannucci]] (2009). In July 2009, Opera North premièred ''[[Prima Donna (opera)|Prima Donna]]'', a new opera by [[Rufus Wainwright]], at the [[Manchester International Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=22 February 2009|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/09/rufuswainwright.folk|title=From pop to opera: petrified Rufus Wainwright embraces 'the dark religion'|author=Higgins, Charlotte|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=9 October 2008}}</ref>