Mike Smith, Author at Art Scene in Wales

Cardiff director’s Il re pastore, Buxton International Festival

**** When the singers start jigging along at the end of Il re pastore, having told us the Greek army is...

Cowbridge Music Festival has announced the programme for its 2023 festival (15 – 24 September 2023) which offers a diverse...

The producers of Cardiff Christmas Festival (formerly Cardiff Castle Christmas Festival), which is staged inside a beautiful heated 550-seat...

***** Sometimes it is a bore being an opera-loving academic classicist. On one hand it can be very helpful knowing...

***** Great things are now expected from the acclaimed Swansea-born Natalya Romaniw, and in Bruno Ravella’s production of Ariadne...

**** It has been a while since I can remember Welsh National Opera getting a (well-deserved) standing ovation and...

***** Take singers in fabulous voice, the Gascoigne orchestra luxuriating in Wagner’s exquisite music and a visually and...

Over 50 artists are confirmed for the International Storytelling Festival returning this summer A vibrantly diverse and captivating line-up of...

Wales Millennium Centre’s reinvented Cabaret room in the old Blas restaurant (one of many variations) hosted a charming evening of...

Well, I wasn’t expecting that! Based on the award-winning Neil Gaiman 2013 novel, this is a spectacular piece of theatre,...