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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