**** It would be wrong to make what may be the last review of a full-scale work by Mid…
Welsh National Opera and No Fit State, Death in Venice
March 8, 2024Video as ever-moving theatrical backdrop is not the only feature that comes into its own in Welsh National Opera’s…
Death in Venice, No Fit State and WNO, WMC
March 8, 2024Opera Favourites, Welsh National Opera
March 7, 2024In Opera Favourites WNO’s Orchestra and Chorus took centre stage. The audience was treated to a diverse programme of familiar…
Ie, ie ie, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru yn Theatr Clwyd
March 7, 2024**** Arweiniwyd Ie, ie, ie, gan yr actor a digrifwr Eleri Morgan, presenoldeb carismataidd a hawdd i ymgysylltu â hi….
Cosi fan tutte, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre
February 26, 2024More than titular accuracy may have encouraged director Max Hoehn to set his new production of Mozart’s Cosi fan…
Madama Butterfly, Swansea Grand Theatre
February 21, 2024When reviewing modern-day opera, it has become almost compulsory to begin by tackling the number one question: was it a…
Feral Monster, National Theatre Wales, Sherman, Cardiff
February 21, 2024I confess I was slightly dreading Feral Monster from National Theatre Wales with themes that have been hijacked by big…
Twelfth Night, Swansea Grand Theatre
February 12, 2024The fall of Malvolio is one of Shakespeare’s more memorable, and more questionable, moments of comedy. As a pompous character…
Monmouth Big Band, Savoy Theatre, Monmouth
February 11, 2024By all accounts, no doubt fostered by those with ideas of making a profit from them, big bands are on…