Opera – Weston-super-Mum

Welsh National Opera: Migrations

Ginny Gould reviews Welsh National Opera’s Migrations at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. Last night I had the

Lilly Nicholls reviews Welsh National Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro at The Bristol Hippodrome. The last time I went to

Carmen is all about the story and as so often with opera it’s one of love, betrayal and death. This

The first opera we ever saw together was by OperaUpClose. On that occasion, they performed a 1920s set of La Traviata

The person I took to see an opera yesterday has never been to one before. In fact the words ‘I’d

Before the performance even started, it had all the elements in place to delight a partisan and primarily older audience.

I’ve become a bit of an opera fan, and in particular a Welsh National Opera fan so to be offered

Two operas in two nights; this could have been hard work. I’m not sure I would have been able to

I’ve come to the conclusion that opera is essentially musical theatre with knobs on. You have all the elements –

La Forza del Destino – the Force of Destiny – isn’t an opera I’d ever heard of before but some