Opera North Limited

Company 01550778 Active

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Board DNA

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directors on the board

5y median 4.6y

average tenure

12.2y

longest tenure

directors past 6 years

4 vs 9 portfolio

first-time directors

also govern a charity

left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits

Arts and leisure 9Education 4Hospitality 3Finance 2Other services 2Professional services 2Property 2Tech and media 1

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Music Preserved 1 shared director

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Company details

Number	01550778
Status	Active
Type	PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated	13/03/1981
Address	HOWARD OPERA CENTRE, 8 HARRISON STREET, LEEDS, LS1 6PA
Accounts next due	31/12/2026
Accounts last made up	31/03/2025

Industry (SIC)

90010 - Performing arts

Ownership - persons with significant control (1)

Officers (75)

Canning, Laura Frances Director · appointed 2025
Freud, Anthony Peter Director · appointed 2024
Kaprekar, Aniruddha Dinanath Director · appointed 2024
Gardiner, Kaley Victoria Director · appointed 2024
Wharton, Victoria Emma Louise Director · appointed 2022
Abedin, Minhazul Director · appointed 2022
Elwell, Rachel Louisa Director · appointed 2021
Hall, Sarah Elizabeth Director · appointed 2021
Wallis, Dominic Laurence Carden Director · appointed 2021
Gatiss, Howard Charles Director · appointed 2019
Bullen, Kirsten Jean Secretary · appointed 2018
Millard, Rosemary Harriet Director · appointed 2018
Jowitt, Henrietta Director · appointed 2018
LEE, Paul Anthony Director · appointed 2014
Roberts-Cherry, Caroline Former Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2025
Hunt, Renee Former Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2023
Kellett, Liza Miranda Ryerson Former Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2019
Brentnall, Nicola Christine Former Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2020
Pryor, Jonathan David Former Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2025
Anderson, Edmund John Seward Former Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2023
Baverstock, Paul Antony Former Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2018
Warnett, John Irving Former Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2023
Wakefield, Keith Ivor Former Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2015
Maniura, Peter Dominic Former Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2023
Mantle OBE DL, Richard John, Sir Former Director · appointed 2012 · resigned 2023
Armour, Mark Henry Former Director · appointed 2012 · resigned 2021
Bowser, Wayne Former Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2013
Netherton, Derek Nigel Donald Former Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2014
Poovaya-Smith OBE, Nima, Dr Former Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2019
Bywater, John Andrew Former Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2018
Weyer, Martin Laurence Vander Former Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2018
Dillon, Paula Marie Former Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2017
Lloyd, Clive Roland Former Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2018
Arthur, Michael James Paul, Professor Former Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2013
Green, Christopher Gowland Former Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2009
Feldman, Ronald David, Mr (Councillor) Former Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2006
Duckworth, Roger Peter Terence Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2006
Mcmillan, Ronald Thomas Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2009
Gibney, Vivien Murray Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2013
Potter, Geoffrey Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2013
Blake, Judith Vivienne, Councillor Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2013
Widdows, Angela Hermione, the Hon Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2005
Bishop, Ann Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2013
Heller, John Henry Godfrey Former Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2011
Cowell, Raymond, Professor Former Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2010
Dobson, Helen Margaret Former Secretary · appointed 1999 · resigned 2018
Murray, Thomas Former Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2003
Barstow, Josephine Clare Former Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2005
Eccles of Moulton, Diana Catherine, Lady Former Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2011
Walker, Antony Kenneth Frederick, Sir Former Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
Mackinlay, Jack Lindsay Former Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2011
LEE, Paul Anthony Former Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2000
Lovell, David John Former Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 2002
Port, Lynn Former Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 2003
Neocosmos, Sally Christine Former Secretary · appointed 1995 · resigned 2003
Hemming, Penelope Julia Former Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 2004
Shindler, Geoffrey Arnold Former Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 1997
Hogan, George Martin Winton David Former Secretary · appointed 1994 · resigned 1999
Gilmore, Rosalind Edith Jean Former Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1997
Leach, Clive William Former Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 2002
Pratt, George Malcolm, Emeritus Professor Former Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 1998
Heinitz, Chris Alan, Councillor Former Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 1994
Mcdonald, Tom, Sir Former Secretary · appointed 1992 · resigned 1995
Tapp, Anthony Clement Former Director · resigned 1992
Beverley, Michael Former Director · resigned 2010
Gunnell, William John Former Director · resigned 2001
Taylor, Russell Young Willis Former Director · resigned 1993
Atha, Bernard Peter, Honorary Alderman Former Director · resigned 2004
Graham, John Alistair, Sir Former Director · resigned 2002
Worsley, George Oliver Former Director · resigned 1992
Sparling, Peter Norman Former Director · resigned 2012
Bullock, Matthew Peter Dominic, the Hon Former Director · resigned 1996
Adsetts, William Norman, Sir Former Director · resigned 1994
Lascelles, George Henry Hubert, the Right Hon.the Earl of Harewood Former Director · resigned 2006
Linacre, John Gordon Seymour, Sir Former Director · resigned 1998

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