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| | Guardian | Inside the whale |
 | | The English lines read: "In these stones/ Horizons/ Sing", which will be true from the very first day, when the Welsh National Opera launches into La Traviata and the audience, here as in Naples, is tempted to sing along with the arias - opera is rarely considered elitist in Wales. |
 | | I wanted to link that to medieval Welsh tradition, and Ceridwen's cauldron from which the poet Taliesin received his inspiration. |
 | | This is a curious building, no doubt about it: an attempt to do something difficult, to capture the artistic spirit of a nation in steel, timber, copper and slate, to make a Welsh building in a setting that has been developed so that it might be pretty much anywhere at all. |
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