Opera, give it a go!
Can Opera be for everyone? Steve Speirs (Alan in Stella) wasn’t sure but since joining the Welsh National Opera company he wants to dispel the myth and encourage a new audience to experience opera. Wi ...
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Shakespeare’s Shylock as opera
Robert Tanitch reviews WNO’s The Merchant of Venice at Royal Opera House, London Shakespeare’s play is one of his most accessible but it has lost its popular appeal since the Holocaust. At the very fi ...
Madam Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini performed by the Welsh National Opera (WNO)
Director Joachim Herz’s Madam Butterfly has been a firm favourite with audiences for nearly 30 years and with good reason. This production is a classic, faithful to the traditional staging of this muc ...