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Elin Pritchard shines in Grange Park’s Simon Boccanegra

*** There was something slightly surreal about watching a nearly 30-year-old David Pountney production of Simon Boccanegra at Grange Park...

Never shy from letting his imagination run riot on the opera stage, David Pountney and his design team have created...

Cardiff-based opera and theatre director Polly Graham is Artistic Director of Longborough Opera in the Cotswolds. She was a Genesis...

A troupe of Welsh singers are off to the desert sunshine for Welsh National Opera’s collaboration with the United Arab Emirates...

After some high and lows during his tenure at Welsh National Opera, it is always with some slight trepidation I...

Mary Elizabeth Williams Keyboards of hyperbole are clattered away every day on shows but rarely does something come along...

In this season of revivals, with a quasi-Russian Revolution theme, a new Czech musical director Tomáš Hanus in post and...

This autumn Welsh National Opera will present three Russian-themed opera under the title Russian Revolution. The season will include performances...

Welsh National Opera’s Summer season is a Viennese whirl with the cherry on the cake being a new production of Richard...

Shakespeare’s Portia may be right that the quality of mercy is not strained but by curtain call the audience was...