Opera in Wales as we know it today grew from a strong musical tradition. Before the Second World War little full-scale opera was performed. Today the situation has completely changed, with Wales ...

Wales' flagship company may be Welsh National Opera, but there is plenty of other flourishing operatic activity. WNO has won a reputation as one of the world's greatest opera companies. It attracts ...

Just a glance at the six core funding principles with which the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) judges whether the arts organisations it exists in order to support are worthy of public subsidy shows that ...

Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree took up their positions as joint heads of WNO in January after brutal funding cuts. But they are confident their pared-down operation will still offer ‘an electric ...

North Wales Opera are performing Puccini’s Tosca in venues at Shrewsbury Abbey, St Alkmunds (Whitchurch), Llangollen Town Hall and in St George’s Hall (Liverpool) this September 2025. Puccini’s Tosca ...

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ALONGSIDE its new season of shows which launched this weekend with Fidelio at the Wales Millennium Centre, the Welsh National Opera is offering audiences more in its 2010/2011 season, with the ...

Join Mid Wales Opera and future stars of the international opera stage for an evening of passion, drama and comedy from the operatic canon marking 30 years of Mid ...

A genre-bending Welsh language opera film will premiere at the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 18th, ahead of its nationwide cinema release this autumn. Tanau’r Lloer / Fires of ...

MAURICE Ravel's exhilarating one-act bedroom farce will burst into Colwyn Bay with unforgettable melodies and dazzling dance next month. The award winning Mid Wales Opera touring company will present ...

Schoolchildren from Mid Wales have enlisted the help of a television celebrity to show their concern for the environment in a public performance re-make of a famous Bible story. Schoolchildren from ...

Not excellence. Not quality of product – neither of which are mentioned once in the arm’s-length body’s investment review guidelines. It seems that those currently holding the purse strings for our ...