Month: September 2025
A Tosca that delights as glorious entertainment
Tosca, Welsh National Opera Tosca with a reduced orchestra and bought in 2018 production from Opera North may not sound like the height of excitement for Welsh National Opera’s autumn season. Yet, the Saturday afternoon performance at Wales Millennium Centre was a glorious entertainment that had the usually more restrained opera audiences literally cheering at…
WNO Successfully Stages the Unstageable Candide
Wales Millennium Centre Leonard Bernstein’s Candide premiered on Broadway in 1956 where its short-run was met with puzzlement and poor reviews. While Candide has found more favourable reactions in recent decades, it remains a problematic work. What exactly is it? An opera? A musical? Welsh National Opera opts to call it an operetta – which…