Interviews
Un Nos Ola Leuad – Leading Welsh singers record a new Welsh language Opera
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…
Elin Pritchard comes out fighting
- 25th August 2021
- Interviews
- Aled Hall
- Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Belcombe Court
- Bradford on Avon
- Christopher Luscombe
- Elin Pritchard
- English National Opera
- Grange Festival
- Hamish Mackay
- Iford Arts
- Il tabarro
- Longborough Opera
- Mid Wales Opera
- Opera Ensemble
- Opera Holland Park
- Pagliacci
- Peter Auty
- Poul Ruder
- Robert Hayward
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Welsh National Opera
Lockdown was intended to squash the COVID sombrero in early 2020 but it also flattened soprano Elin Pritchard’s rising career. Like many other singers the impact of the pandemic was sudden and dramatic. The North Wales-born, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama graduate was performing as Micaëla in Welsh National Opera’s touring production of…