Der Rosenkavalier Owen Davies 03/07/2017 Rosenkavalier is a wonderful opera. It has some of the most superb music ever written for women’s voices and it has a central theme that strikes chord...
Macbeth Mel Cooper 02/11/2016 This is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and to commemorate this the Welsh National Opera has chosen to present three pieces that were in...
Sam Brown in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 22/12/2015 Age only 33, Sam Brown is to direct a new production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville at Welsh National Opera as part of a Figaro Forever trilogy in Spr...
WNO Tour: Bellini, I Puritani; Handel, Orlando; Sondheim, Sweeney Todd Mel Cooper 10/11/2015 I caught up with the current Welsh National Opera season on tour in Oxford and must begin by reporting that musically every single work – Bellini’s I ...