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Stacey Alleaume leads Welsh National Opera's emotionally-charged Traviata

By David Truslove, 24 November 2023

Leading an international cast in a still-sumptuous revival in Southampton's Mayflower, Stacey Alleaume gives a sovereign performance as the ill-fated courtesan Violetta.

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****1

Southampton

24 Nov 2023

Stacey Alleaume leads WNO's emotionally-charged Traviata

By David Truslove

Cardiff

Rossini gets Welsh National Opera’s belated 75th birthday party off to a triumphant start

By Simon Cummings, 09 September 2021

WNO finally emerges from the pandemic with a performance of The Barber of Seville full of emotion and elation.

*****

*****

Cardiff

09 Sep 2021

WNO’s belated 75th birthday party gets off to a triumphant start

By Simon Cummings

Birmingham

A White House Rigoletto with some impressive voices at Welsh National Opera

By Robert Gainer, 06 November 2019

Welsh National Opera brought a cast of strong voices to Birmingham for a production of Rigoletto intriguingly set in the White House of the 1960s.

***11

***11

Birmingham

06 Nov 2019

A White House Rigoletto with some impressive voices

By Robert Gainer

Cardiff

Bowler hats and lobsters: WNO's surreal Magic Flute returns

By Rohan Shotton, 17 February 2019

Dominic Cooke’s Magritte-inspired production returns to Wales Millennium Centre to keep the audience giggling.

***11

***11

Cardiff

17 Feb 2019

Bowler hats and lobsters: WNO's surreal Magic Flute returns

By Rohan Shotton

Southampton

McVicar's Traviata is still darkly impressive

By Mark Pullinger, 23 November 2018

Even given a routine revival, McVicar's staging has much to recommend it, returning the opera to its literary roots.

***11

***11

Southampton

23 Nov 2018

McVicar's Traviata is still darkly impressive

By Mark Pullinger

Milton Keynes

Nagasaki comes to Bedfordshire: WNO's Madama Butterfly in Milton Keynes

By Richard Ely, 24 March 2017

Welsh National Opera brings its 1978 production of Madama Butterfly to Milton Keynes.

***11

***11

Milton Keynes

24 Mar 2017

Nagasaki comes to Bedfordshire

By Richard Ely

Cardiff

From the Somme's trenches: Iain Bell's In Parenthesis opens at Welsh National Opera

By Simon Rees, 13 May 2016

David Jones' First World War epic poem comes to musical life in Iain Bell's newly-commissioned opera.

****1

****1

Cardiff

13 May 2016

From the Somme's trenches: Iain Bell's In Parenthesis

By Simon Rees

Cardiff

Rosa Feola shines in Welsh National Opera's I puritani

By Simon Rees, 11 September 2015

Annilese Miskimmon's production of I puritani mixes Royalists with Loyalists - but is musically successful under Carlo Rizzi's baton.

***11

***11

Cardiff

11 Sep 2015

Rosa Feola shines in WNO's I puritani

By Simon Rees

Cardiff

Leaving J.M.Barrie dangling: High-flying Peter Pan at Welsh National Opera

By Simon Rees, 16 May 2015

Richard Ayres's Peter Pan, in a new WNO production, leaves J.M. Barrie's story dangling.

**111

**111

Cardiff

16 May 2015

High-flying Peter Pan at WNO

By Simon Rees