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Dido and Aenaes, Mid Wales Opera

In the luminous stone sanctuary of 11th-century Brecon Cathedral, listening to one of opera’s earliest masterpieces, it was hard not...

Quite the tonal shift from the Welsh National Opera as, after the dramatic intensity of Tosca, their second offering for...

Welsh National Opera inaugurated its Autumn season – aptly accompanied by very turbulent autumnal weather – by bringing back to...

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

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

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

Welsh National Opera’s Summer Season has been announced, which will include Puccini’s triptych of one-act operas, a WNO Orchestra...

It would be wonderful if the people and politicians (and even other cultural organisations) in Wales shared the view of...

★★★ It could not have been more apt for this concert that Mozart was struggling to make...

In Opera Favourites WNO’s Orchestra and Chorus took centre stage. The audience was treated to a diverse programme of familiar...