Tickets are now on sale for this year's festival, which is presented by the Northern Opera Group and will see shows and interactive events performed around the city between August 5 and September 8. The theme for this year's event is crime and adventure and will feature a performance of the world's first Sherlock Holmes opera. 'Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four', a brand new opera by award-winning composer Lliam Paterson, will be performed at Leeds School of Arts. Continuing the theme of...
Vaughan Gething was elected as the new first minister of Wales on Wednesday, becoming the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. Gething was elected to lead the government by members of the Welsh parliament in Cardiff, four days after winning the contest to be leader of Wales' governing Labour Party. He secured 27 of 51 votes in the legislature, the Senedd, where Labour is the biggest party. Gething, the son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, said Wales is now "the first nation...
Vaughan Gething was elected to head the Welsh Labour party.
Here's what to watch for on MLB's opening day: THE SHO GOES ON Shohei Ohtani already made his Dodgers debut last week in South Korea, but all eyes will still be on the two-way sensation as Los Angeles hosts the St. Louis Cardinals. The $700 million star is trying to remain focused on the field []
World Series MVP Corey Seager and the defending champion Texas Rangers open at home with Nathan Eovaldi
This wasn’t how Opening Day was supposed to go. Depending on when you were projecting the Mets’ Opening Day starter, you either had optimism that Yoshinobu Yamamoto was going to be the newest Met and would take the hill on March 28th. If it was on the first day of Spring Training, you likely thought Kodai Senga would be introduced from the bullpen at Citi Field. Or, if a few weeks ago, after Yamamoto signed with Los Angeles and Senga injured his shoulder, you maybe thought that Jordan Montgomery...
Often imitated, never duplicated.
In a competition with limited alternatives, Brett Baty didn’t have to win the third-base job for the Mets this spring as much as avoid losing it.
The baseball player who is arguably the greatest of his generation hit the first home run of the 2024 season. Mike Trout took Corbin Burnes deep in Baltimore in his first at-bat of the year. Burnes threw an 88 mph slider to Trout on a 1-1 count, but he made a costly mistake by trowing a low strike to the three-time MVP. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Trout, maybe the best low-ball hitter in the game, blasted the offering 402 feet over the left-center field wall at Camden...
The park, named after Queen Elizabeth II, has opened for visitors
Baseball openers in New York and Philadelphia were postponed a day until Friday because of rainy forecasts in both cities.
The Cardinals' opening day lineup features four players age 23 or younger for the first time since 1924. First pitch for Thursday's opener in LA is set for 3:10 p.m.