Mike Smith, Author at Art Scene in Wales

Anna Bolena, Donizetti, Longborough Opera

It is difficult to have great sympathy for Anna Bolena – as she herself admits in Donizetti’s operatic take on...

With Swansea-born soprano Natalya Romaniw in the leading role, this Bartered Bride is no submissive chattel. Far from it, she...

Installation artist Luke Jerram’s incredible touring artwork, Gaia, will be the centrepiece of a six-week celebration of planet Earth at...

Dance and theatre audiences’ love affair with Matthew Bourne shown no sign of waning and with this novel take on...

Avenue Q is almost as old as some of the characters the puppets (think muppets but for legal reasons they...

I have seen Falstaff more times than I care to remember with various singers in that so famous title role...

Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales Kully Thiarai will leave the company to take up a new role as Creative...

I am late to the Longborough Festival Opera party, joining just as the remarkable organisation launches a new Ring Cycle,...

It is Operatunity Knocks time again. BBC Cardiff Singer of the World is back from 15-22 June 2019 with 20...

Switch a greasy doner kebab stack for a huge carrot on a vertical rotisserie and you can see why this...