Day: 2 September 2021

Jonathan Lyness and Richard Studer on Mid Wales Opera’s Parisian love affair

2nd September 2021

Music Director Jonathan Lyness talks about creating a new score for four instruments to perform Puccini’s Il tabarro, and Artistic Director Richard Studer reflects on the production’s genesis and development during lockdown life, as they bring Mid Wales Opera’s latest tour to audiences. “Puccini seems to have felt a special affinity with Paris, so much […]

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Un Nos Ola Leuad – Leading Welsh singers record a new Welsh language Opera

2nd September 2021

I’ve been composing to commission for over 40 years now, in about as many genres as you could shake a baton at, but had never written an opera.  Not, that is, until 2014 or thereabouts, the time when the BBC finally dispensed with my services as the presenter (since the late 70s) of the daily […]

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