CARDIFF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA celebrates its 40th Anniversary this month and will mark the occasion with a special anniversary concert at…
Michael McCarthy – 40 years of making new opera
June 6, 2022Michael McCarthy is Director of Music Theatre Wales and has staged over 30 productions for the company. Productions include Richard…
Tom Coult: writing my first opera, Violet
June 2, 2022Composer Tom Coult, 33, is one of the most distinctive and admired composers of his generation. In 2021, he was…
Cardiff-based Polly Graham on opera at Longborough and further afield
May 25, 2022Cardiff-based opera and theatre director Polly Graham is Artistic Director of Longborough Opera in the Cotswolds. She was a Genesis…
Houston.. Natalya Romaniw hasn’t got a problem.
December 30, 2021It is a very long way between lockdown in Cardiff and rehearsing in Texas for the opening of Houston Grand…
Elena Svinko: Prima Ballerina shares her Christmas insight
December 1, 2021Prima ballerina Elena Svinko dances with the Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia at St David’s Hall, Cardiff in…
Paul Chuckle: Playing Wishy Washy
December 1, 2021Pantomime is back at Cardiff’s New Theatre. The family favourite Aladdin will feature an all-star cast and promises to…
Paul Fanning: Strange Tales from Everyman Theatre at Chapter.
November 10, 2021THE TELL-TALE HEART Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 tale of murder and madness. A nameless narrator tells us with aloof…
Mary Loudon: Why I Swapped Being An Author For Being A Theatre Producer
October 28, 2021From the moment I discovered Young Roots, a charity providing immediate & long-term support to child refugees in the UK,…
Nicholas Lester: Adelaide Eisteddfod to WNO’s Barber via Amazon
September 30, 2021MS: You have had, and continue to have, a strong association with Wales. How did they come about and develop?…