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2023-08-01 07:34:44
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2022-11-07 15:29:14
St David’s Hall, Cardiff On the concert platform, Welsh National Opera’s orchestral musicians brought lyricism and exactitude Britten, Mahler and Janáček, while mezzo Jana Kurucová gave a glowing, sensitive rendition of Dvořák’s Biblical SongsBritten, Dvořák, Wagner and Janáček: there were no obvious connecting threads in conductor
2022-03-06 15:55:27
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe WNO revival of their 1998 production beautifully teases out the essential humanity in Janáček’s opera Leoš Janáček’s opera, turning on the central story of infanticide, is never anything but anguished and achingly sad. Now, with the sharp focus brought by the present times and the knowledge of atrocities being perpetrated in Ukraine, this Welsh National Opera revival of their 1998 production took on a powerful emotional force. Addressing the audience before it began, conductor and company music director, Tomáš Hanus, spoke movingly about the essential humanity of Janáček’s work and of the shared privilege of experiencing this in the face of the tragedy of war. The intensity he inspired in orchestra and singers spoke volumes. Director Katie Mitchell’s concept has always carried an uneasy tension. Underlining the claustrophobia of a tight-knit community, the mill-owner Grandmother Buryja and her daughter-in-law, the village sacristan, the Kostelnička, represent the two […]
2021-06-11 07:58:36
WNO returns to large-scale touring with a new look at Madam Butterfly and plans for the premiere of Will Todd's Migrations
Welsh National Opera will be returning to large-scale touring this Autumn as part of its recently announced plans for the 2021/22 season. Autumn will see the return of Rossini's The Barber of Seville alongside a new production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly which will aim to create socially relevant telling of the classic tale. 2022 will features Mozart's Don Giovanni and Katie Mitchell's new production of Janáček's Jenůfa which will be conducted by the company's music director Tomáš Hanus. Will Todd's Migrations which was due to be premiered in 2021 will be premiered in Cardiff in June/July 2022 and will tour in Autumn 2022. Giles Havergal's long-running production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville will be conducted by Tomáš Hanus and Frederick Brown and feature a cast including Nico Darmanin, Nicholas Lester, Heather Lowe, Andrew Shore and Keel Watson. Puccini's Madama Butterfly will be directed by the Australian director Lindy Hume with […]
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