For one of the best-known and most frequently staged of Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto can prove at times quite frustrating. There is a…

*** Youth theatre can be easy to dismiss, but there is a particular joy to it: especially when it engages…

  Open air theatre can be a cruel mistress. Head down to Sophia Gardens on a balmy Summer day, and…

**** It doesn’t quite feel like Summer in Cardiff until the Open Air Theatre Festival is on. Coming to Sophia…

  Even for Puccini lovers, Il Trittico is somewhat of a curiosity. This collection of three one-act operas was debuted in 1918…

**** I have, as I am sure many other people also do, a deep-seated horror of hospitals. Hospitals are, as…

The WNO chose to open its Autumn season for this year with something a little out of left field, treating…

The 2022 edition of Llais Festival has been an exciting rollercoaster of events, performances, and talks, and while it is…

Our second day at Llais festival was a bit of a special one, as it surely would have been for…

If you wander down to Cardiff Bay over this long October weekend, you will be welcomed by a whole universe…