Day: 9 October 2023

Mid Wales Opera Shakespeare season against backdrop of funding axe

9th October 2023

Mid Wales Opera are back on the road this season with two Shakespearean operas. In March next year the company presents its first ever production of Verdi’s great masterpiece Macbeth. Before that, this autumn, the company presents Berlioz’s effervescent Beatrice and Benedict, based on Shakespeare’s comedy Much ado about nothing. However, the tour comes against […]

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Swansea City Opera’s new chamber opera Shoulder to Shoulder

9th October 2023

Swansea City Opera’s new chamber opera Shoulder to Shoulder will tour in November with a five-strong cast. It has been created through Swansea City Opera’s partnership with the charity Men’s Sheds Cymru, which develops social groups for older men. Through interviews with Shedders, as members of Sheds are known, the Artistic Director of Swansea City […]

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