The very story of The Merchant of Venice is controversial. Anyone touching the material would seem to tip-toe through…
Macbeth, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre
September 11, 2016Cardiff audiences don’t boo the designers and directors of WNO operas – they just drop the level of applause when…
Kommilitonen! WNO’s Youth Opera
July 21, 2016Kommilitonen! is an electrifying documentary opera about student revolution. It’s being performed by Welsh National Youth Opera – a group…
Kommilitonen! ‘Young Blood’ sing of student revolt in new production
July 5, 2016Welsh National Opera’s Youth Opera is preparing to present a new production of Kommilitonen! – an opera for young people,…
In Parenthesis on the silver screen
June 22, 2016Audiences across Wales and the world will get a chance to see Welsh National Opera’s new opera In Parenthesis this…
In Parenthesis, WNO at WMC
May 15, 2016Marking both the centenary of the Battle of Mametz Wood, Wales’ blackest of innumerable black episodes of the Great War,…
In Parenthesis, WNO
May 15, 2016Iain Bell’s score in the seemingly impossible adaptation of David Jones’ In Parenthesis is theatrical and vigorous while as a…
WNO singer at Oxfordshire College dinner event
May 12, 2016Welsh National Opera soprano Jane Lambert will join Neil Gillespie, Royal Opera and Judy Douglas, English National Opera for a…
Figaro Gets a Divorce, WNO
February 22, 2016Beaumarchais, the creator of Figaro, wrote three plays about his creation. The first two, The Barber of Seville and The…
New WW1 WNO Opera
February 1, 2016Welsh National Opera will commemorate WW1 and the centenary of the Battle of the Somme with a world premiere of…