OPERA North is welcoming the festive season in Leeds and beyond with orchestral spectaculars, intimate concerts and community performances.

The Orchestra of Opera North is providing a live accompaniment to Raymond Briggs’ animated classic The Snowman and Other Tales at Leeds Town Hall on December 18.

Opera North stalwart John Savournin completes the bill with a captivating telling of Paul Patterson’s settings of Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs.

The annual Opera North Christmas Concert at Dewsbury Town Hall on Thursday, December 15 features the orchestra together with the combined voices of Opera North’s Chorus, Youth and Children’s Choruses.

The Opera North groups will accompany the massed voices of the Inspiration community choir in God Bless Us Everyone, in Leeds Town Hall on December 17, featuring film music, calypso, gospel and traditional hymns.

The Victorian interior of the Howard Assembly Room will be full of live music before a cosy screening of the classic Christmas film It’s A Wonderful Life on December 19.

The Orchestra of Opera North is back with soprano Ellie Laugharne and mezzo soprano Heather Lowe, for their ever-popular New Year concert Viennese Whirl in Leeds Town Hall on December 31.

Visit operanorth.co.uk or call 0113 3760318 to book tickets.