I suspect the singers in Mascagni’s Cavalleria and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci when first performed in Wales when WNO was formed 70…

Iain Bell’s score in the seemingly impossible adaptation of David Jones’ In Parenthesis is theatrical and vigorous while as a…

We have reached the midpoint of WNO’s Figaro Fiesta that started with the Barber, now the Marriage and that will…

My teenage nephew looked puzzled when I told him we had been to a really funny opera. Clearly, having a…

Opera houses like Sondheim’s grisly musical and have taken it under (and into) their wings to perform possibly as often as…

Madness takes meant forms in the arts but opera offers the opportunity to transform excesses of the mind into beautiful…

    Scott Wilde (Arkel) and Leah-Marian Jones (Geneviève)       Mezzo soprano Leah-Marian has returned to Welsh National…

Bright bowler hats, magical instruments and a gigantic, temperamental lobster abound this exuberant production of Mozart’s wonderfully silly Singspiel, ‘The…

  Niamh Bennett, age 8: I liked the Peter Pan show because it was my first ever time seeing an…

WNO Chief Executive and Artistic Director David Pountney talks about Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande as he takes a break from…