Even for Puccini lovers, Il Trittico is somewhat of a curiosity. This collection of three one-act operas was debuted in 1918…
Nye: theatre of hagiography
June 8, 2024A national icon, playing a national icon, about a national icon can make for some heavy adulation. I suspect some…
Nye, National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre
May 22, 2024**** I have, as I am sure many other people also do, a deep-seated horror of hospitals. Hospitals are, as…
First artists named for Llais 2024
May 8, 2024Wales Millennium Centre has announced the first confirmed acts for LLAIS (9–13 October 2024). Artists incldue Cate Le Bon, South…
Welsh National Opera, Peace and Passion, Wales Millennium Centre
April 22, 2024★★★ It could not have been more apt for this concert that Mozart was struggling to make…
Come from Away at Wales Millennium Centre
April 3, 2024**** I was lucky enough to visit New York earlier this year and to visit Ground Zero. This made…
Alyn Hawke talks about Come from Away, coming to WMC
March 27, 2024Alyn Hawke is resident dierctor of Come from Away which is at Wales Millennium Centre from April 2-6, 2024. Alyn…
Bonnie and Clyde, Wales Millennium Centre
March 27, 2024This is rather an odd show that cannot make its mind up if it is a love story with…
Edward Scissorhands, Wales Millennium Centre
March 20, 2024***** It is always refreshing to see the choreographer, notebook in hand, during a performance of one of his…
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…