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by Mike Smith
Never shy from letting his imagination run riot on the opera stage, David Pountney and his design team have created…
The dark side dominates in David Alden’s sombre Otello for Grange Park Opera. While the tragedy is Otello and Desdemona,…
by Chiara Strazzulla
June is barely over, and already this is proving to be a very interesting Summer for new operas. This is…
Glorious cast includes Welsh mezzo soprano Angharad Lyddon Handel’s Tamerlano gets a contemporary setting in The Grange Festival’s take on…
For Chicago to succeed on stage it requires not only charismatic principal characters but a full ensemble of strong singers,…
It was a night of celebration at the Sherman Theatre as Music Theatre Wales marked forty years of championing modern…
The smile never left my face throughout this very polished and elegant feel-good staging of Singin’ in the Rain. With…
It may not be the most dramatic or spectacular of musicals, but I must admit that I have always had…
At one stage in his show Bianca Del Rio made a light-hearted moan that there are drag queens everywhere, which…
I realised I was not the target market for this show when the singers who “play” each of the six…
There is no getting away from the fact that Lord of the Dance was an intoxicating evening’s entertainment that swept…
CARDIFF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA celebrates its 40th Anniversary this month and will mark the occasion with a special anniversary concert at…
Michael McCarthy is Director of Music Theatre Wales and has staged over 30 productions for the company. Productions include Richard…
Composer Tom Coult, 33, is one of the most distinctive and admired composers of his generation. In 2021, he was…
Cardiff-based opera and theatre director Polly Graham is Artistic Director of Longborough Opera in the Cotswolds. She was a Genesis…
It is a very long way between lockdown in Cardiff and rehearsing in Texas for the opening of Houston Grand…
Prima ballerina Elena Svinko dances with the Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia at St David’s Hall, Cardiff in…
Chelsey Gillard has been appointed as new Artistic Director,of Milford Haven’s Torch Theatre, succeeding Peter Doran after his 25 years…
The Torch Theatre is presenting a new play, Novello & Son, written by Pembrokeshire’s Arnold Evans. Novello & Son is…
Students from Treorchy Comprehensive School, and young people from across Rhondda Cynon Taf and Powys, will share the stage with…
TV personality Brenda Edwards will return to the stage as Mama Morton when the smash hit musical Chicago plays at the New…
Following a successful run at home in Cardiff in April, Wales Millennium Centre and Luke Hereford are taking their solo…
Cardiff’s most popular visiting dance company, Northern Ballet,returns to the city’s New Theatre with their smash hit production of The…