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Welsh National Opera

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Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Phone:
+44 29 2063 5000

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday9:30am - 5:30pm
SaturdayClosed


Welsh National Opera is an opera company based in Cardiff, Wales; it gave its first performances in 1946. It began as a mainly amateur body and transformed into an all-professional ensemble by 1973. In its early days the company gave a single week's annual season in Cardiff, gradually extending its schedule to become an all-year-round operation, with its own salaried chorus and orchestra. It has been described by The New York Times as one of the finest operatic ensembles in Europe.For most of its existence the company lacked a permanent base in Cardiff, but in 2004 it moved into the new Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. The company tours nationally and internationally, giving more than 120 performances annually, with a repertoire of eight operas each year, to a combined audience of more than 150,000 people. Its most frequent venues other than Cardiff are Llandudno in Wales and Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Plymouth, and Southampton in England. Singers who have been associated with the company include Geraint Evans, Thomas Allen, Anne Evans, and Bryn Terfel. Guest artists from other countries have included Joan Hammond, Tito Gobbi and Elisabeth Söderström. Among the conductors have been Sir Charles Mackerras, Reginald Goodall, James Levine and Pierre Boulez. The company has been led since 2011 by David Pountney as chief executive and artistic director.
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