With less than a month to go until the world premiere of our new SmallStages tour, Mrs Peachum’s Guide to…
Jonathan Lyness: The Gin-fuelled Mrs Peachum
August 30, 2019John Gay’s ballade opera The Beggar’s Opera was first performed at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre in London in 1728…
Mid Wales Opera to stage Tosca
December 20, 2018Mid Wales Opera has announced that Puccini’s Tosca will be the company’s spring 2019 tour. The new production of Tosca…
Artistic director steps up so show can go on
December 3, 2018Mid Wales Opera’s Aristic Director literally stepped up to ensure the company’s performances of Ravel’s L’heure espagnole could continue when…
L’heure Espagnol, A Spanish Hour, Mid Wales Opera
November 22, 2018Creating touring opera productions that can adapt to vastly varying spaces while retaining commitment to both drama and musical quality…
L’heure Espagnole, Mid Wales Opera, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff
November 17, 2018One might be uncharitable and say that Mid Wales Opera’s production of Ravel’s musical comedy L’heure Espagnole has serious faults and…
Richard Studer, Artistic Director, Mid Wales Opera: L’heure espagnole
October 5, 2018Tick Tock, siop gloc, clock shop, cock… Translating a piece like Ravel’s opera L’heure espagnole is a task which brings…
L’heure espagnole, Mid Wales Opera
August 16, 2018It is time to book your tickets for Mid Wales Opera’s autumn tour, Ravel’s exhilarating one-act bedroom farce, A Spanish Hour–…
Mike Smith review Eugene Onegin, Mid Wales Opera
March 17, 2018I enjoyed this Onegin enormously and quite possibly for the very same reasons others will not like it. Richard Studer’s…
Richard Studer: Directing Eugene Onegin, MWO
February 21, 2018Like many before me I came to Onegin via a circuitous route. To say it started with an advert for…