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 ...

Edward Lambert calls for a renewal of the genre to attract new audiences. Plus a letter from Helen Rooker on funding cuts to Mid Wales Opera Your editorial (Thwarted in its mission to bring music to ...

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 ...

For the first time in its history the Royal Opera House in London has decided to set up a partnership - and it has chosen a small but distinguished Welsh company as its partner. Music Theatre Wales ...

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 ...

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 ...

MID Wales Opera’s new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will be staged next month. MID Wales Opera’s new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will be staged next month. Following ...

If you do your research it’s actually really funny.” So out go Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Nimming Ned and all but three of John Gay’s 30-odd named characters. Instead, front and centre, we have criminal ...

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 ...