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

A strong cast take us to the brink of damnation in Welsh National Opera’s revival of Don Giovanni.

Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé is as anti-Wagnerian a work as you could imagine. It is also the odd one out in Welsh National Opera’s “Love’s Poisoned Chalice” spring season.

Welsh National Opera's new production of The Barber of Seville disappoints in an uncoordinated performance in Bristol. 

The Welsh National Opera took to the Hippodrome stage for the Bristol leg of their UK tour ofCarmen. This was a revival of Welsh National Opera’s production in the late 1990s, co-produced with Scottish Opera.

It’s a curious thing that when operatic characters are drinking at a party, they invariably sing about how nice it is to be drinking at a party – never sports results, or the weather, or how all them bleedin’ ’ungarians are coming over to Austria and taking all our jobs...