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	Bryn Terfel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1990, Terfel made his operatic début as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Welsh National Opera, and later in the same season he sang the title role in The Marriage of Figaro, a role with which he made his debut with the English National Opera in 1991.
		In 1996, Terfel expanded his repertoire to include Wagner, singing Wolfram in Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera, and Stravinsky, singing Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress at the Welsh National Opera.
		The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel, CBE (born November 9, 1965) is one of the best-known contemporary opera and concert singers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bryn_Terfel (555 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - The voice of opera in Scotland - is Welsh
		Going to the opera in Cardiff is now cheaper than going to a rugby international," says Bellingham, going on to claim, with proud satisfaction, that the Welsh national sport is clearly more elitist than its opera.
		WNO will be one of six national companies, including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, whose funding will come direct from the devolved Welsh Assembly, rather than through the Arts Council.
		It presents three seasons a year, each with three operas, at least one of which is a brand new production.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1993492005 (1161 words)

	BBC News WALES Cash boost for Welsh National Opera
		Welsh Culture Minister Jenny Randerson, who last week announced a ten-year strategy for the arts in Wales, said she was delighted by the news of the WNO funding package.
		A total of £4.25m from the National Lottery is being provided to the WNO to springboard this programme.
		It also follows a period of financial uncertainty for the opera house, which is playing a key role in Cardiff's bid for European City of Culture in 2008.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/wales/1812777.stm (457 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts news Welsh opera has a home at last
		Welsh National Opera had, after 60 years of peripatetic homelessness, for the first time performed on a stage it could call its own.
		It was not, admittedly, the Zaha Hadid-designed Cardiff Bay Opera House that had been on the table in 1992 when Rizzi had arrived as WNO's music director: but the £106m Wales Millennium Centre, a great, gleaming hulk of building in self-consciously Welsh stone, slate and wood, which opened its doors in November.
		Another WNO music director has even been and gone (the Ossetian boy-wonder Tugan Sokhiev was supposed to have been Rizzi's successor, but owing to his abrupt resignation in August after just 19 months, Rizzi was asked back for two years and, since his "heart is in Wales", was happy to oblige).
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1418903,00.html (766 words)

	Welsh National Opera - MusEd - British Council - Arts
		WNO MAX also has ongoing projects that run throughout the year such as Explore Opera ie: an 'open rehearsal' of a scene from a current opera on Saturday afternoons in theatres; and pre-performance talks signposting selected operas and an active Youth Opera in both Belfast and Cardiff.
		WNO MAX seeks to maximise the potential of opera to electrify and enrapture through participation in, and preparation for live opera experiences.
		Each season is bursting with WNO MAX projects including new commissions, concerts for schools with the whole orchestra and instrumental residencies in schools and colleges.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-music-education-mused-welsh-national-opera.htm (207 words)

	The Doctor of Myddfai - Reviews of the First Performances
		Dramatically the opera pivots around the two crucial confrontations between the Doctor and the Ruler; the musical roots are two hymns sung in Welsh in the first scene of each act.
		Welsh bass Gwynne Howell gave a characteristically strong performance as the Ruler who at first rejects the Doctor but seeks his help when inflicted by the terrible disease that has struck down the Myddfai villagers.
		The Doctor of Myddfai is a natural successor to Davies's earlier opera Resurrection, in which he laid bare, in an almost self-purging exercise, a whole catalogue of preoccupations.
	www.maxopus.com /new/doctor.htm (2086 words)

	Patricia Racette
		Racette says she loathes fake or going?through?the?motions performances and wonders why opera heroines are often portrayed as "ditzy" or "simple", as though to suggest that women in opera, irrespective of warmth or vulnerability, emerge as two?dimensional creatures, invariably the love interest of a man and devoid of emotional complexity.
		Based on Judith Rossner's novel Emmeline, the opera told the story of a 19th century New England textile worker who was seduced by the mill owner's son?in?law and the child she bears him is taken from her.
		Although Racette can't abide by opera productions of the stand?and?deliver variety she is also not an admirer of updated versions which make no sense of the composer's vision or distract the audience from the beauty and truth that's there.
	www.patriciaracette.com /press.asp (7387 words)

	Sinclair, Jeanette - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sinclair, Jeanette
		She sang Mimi with Welsh National Opera in 1964, and made many concert appearances.
		From 1954 she appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, where she was Constance in the UK first performance of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites (1958), Micaela, Bella (The Midsummer Marriage), Susanna, and Zerlina.
		She made her Glyndebourne debut in 1955, as Barbarina.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Sinclair,+Jeanette (138 words)

	Nowt2Do.Com Preview - Welsh National Opera
		Strauss’ orchestrally rich and vocally demanding turn of the century opera encompasses a combination of both serious and comic opera as two forms of musical entertainment are performed simultaneously.
		Making her UK opera debut is Polish born soprano Katarzyna Dondalska who represented her country at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2001.
		The story of two rival entertainment groups who learn, to their dismay, that the serious opera performance will be punctuated by intervals of comedy and dance from the minstrels, contains some of the most taxing music ever written for the two lead sopranos and lead tenor.
	www.nowt2do.co.uk /TPreview_WNO.htm (1814 words)

	BBC - Devon Culture & Arts - Welsh National Opera's triple bill at Plymouth Theatre Roya.l
		The Welsh National Opera are performing Don Giovanni, La Boheme and Jephtha in a triple treat for opera lovers at the Plymouth Theatre Royal this summer.
		There's a triple treat in store for opera lovers this summer, with the Welsh National Opera staging three works at the Plymouth Theatre Royal in July.
		This is sung in English, and is a co-production with English National Opera.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/culture/2003/welsh_national_opera.shtml (415 words)

	Welsh: The Language of Song, Part III
		Some of the most well-known Welsh vocalists don’t sing in Welsh, but are famous the world over for their performances and have promoted, at the very least, an awareness and interest in the musical traditions of Wales.
		A couple of decades after the main surge of Welsh folk music, another upswing in Welsh consciousness is occurring in the realm of rock and pop.
		The WNO is now the largest touring opera company in the UK and has won several awards.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/welsh_language/96396 (468 words)

	news story Welsh National Opera wins prestigious RPS Award from the Theatre in Wales web site
		Welsh National Opera has been awarded the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education 2004 for its Katerina Project.
		The citation from the RPS Award said: ‘WNO MAX's Katerina has involved 500 participants since 2001, and has demonstrated a true connection between the work of Welsh National Opera and the children's learning and performance.
		They continue to be inspired by opera, recently composing their own song cycle - I never told you – based on their visit to a performance of WNO’s La boheme in Cardiff.
	www.theatre-wales.co.uk /news/newsdetail.asp?newsID=994 (623 words)

	Guardian Welsh National Opera's music director quits after discord in company
		In a move that has shocked the opera world, the music director of the Welsh National Opera has resigned with immediate effect.
		Welsh National Opera's music director quits after discord in company
		At 26, the Ossetian conductor Tugan Sokhiev was the youngest musical director of a major national company anywhere in the world, except for Mikko Franck, the 25-year-old at the helm of Finnish National Opera.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4998635-110427,00.html (612 words)

	New Statesman: Volga pursuits - Welsh National Opera
		WNO is also singularly adept at fixing up co-productions with other houses, an easier task for the house perhaps because of the exigencies of operating a touring system where every production has to fit nearly a dozen different theatres.
		Opera is often considered to be a thoroughly wasteful and extravagant activity.
		Money is, inevitably, the painful preoccupation of any savvy opera boss, and Freud is currently in the thick of it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4543_130/ai_76665976 (1187 words)

	BBC - Beds, Herts and Bucks Theatre - Welsh National Opera review
		Welsh National Opera is performing at MK Theatre from: Tuesday March 23 - Saturday March 27 2004.
		What, perhaps, is surprising is to find out, is that the Welsh National Opera is putting on two other operas during their visit to Milton Keynes - Hansel and Gretal and Madame Butterfly.
		The notes of the orchestra were rich, the sonorous tones of the voices reverberated round the auditorium which had the skill of being both spacious, yet intimate, at the same time.
	www.bbc.co.uk /threecounties/theatre/2004/03/opera_review.shtml (519 words)

	news story Welsh National Opera back at The Wales Millennium Centre from the Theatre in Wales web site
		The Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, 4conducted by WNO's Music Director Carlo Rizzi, will again be one of the resident orchestras for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition which runs 11 -19 June at St David's Hall.
		A concert performance of Tchaike~vsky's rarely performed work lolanta, it is accompanied by orchestral highlights of Tchaikovsky's most famous work The Nutcracker, as it was in its premiere in 1890, performed by the world-class Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.
		Welsh soprano Rebecca Evans in Pamina, fresh from her debut in the role at the Royal Opera House, with Peter Wedd returning to WNO as Tamino, having appeared in WNO's La traviata last season.
	www.theatre-wales.co.uk /news/newsdetail.asp?newsID=1352 (951 words)

	Houston Grand Opera
		When Freud took over WNO in 1994, he was well-known to the company, having served from 1984 to 1988 as its Company Secretary (General Manager) and then Director of Opera Planning until 1992.
		Houston Grand Opera is well-known and respected around the world due to the vision of its board, staff and longtime General Director, David Gockley.
		Commenting on the selection of his successor, Gockley said, âIt is an honor to pass the torch to such an accomplished opera professional, as well as a friend and longtime colleague.
	www.houstongrandopera.org /press/press_releases.aspx?PressReleaseID=115 (938 words)

	BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Houston welcomes Welsh opera head
		Welsh National Opera director Anthony Freud has become the general director of the Houston Grand Opera.
		Freud was general director of the Welsh National Opera for 10 years.
		Freud said he was eager to work with a company with "no accumulated deficit and one that enjoys strong support from the board and the community".
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4686171.stm (107 words)

	Andrew Cooper: reviews of Welsh National Opera productions
		Chamber Ensemble from the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
		But I think we're to suppose that he matures during the opera, and both the confrontation with Claggart and the Darbies scene were well-done.
		After the Witch had been pushed in instead, and the fossilised children had come to life (rather clunkily, production-wise), the gruesome end of the opera featured everyone dining off the tasty joint that emerged when the oven door was opened.
	www.personal.leeds.ac.uk /~lib6arc/wno1.html (4823 words)

	Amazon.com: Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande / Boulez, Archer, Hagley, Welsh National Opera: DVD
		Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande is the new Deutsche Grammophon release of the 1992 performance by the Welsh National Opera, conducted by Pierre Boulez with Stage Production and Design by Peter Stein.
		When sitting to watch an opera on DVD you want to enjoy the feeling of being there, as if you were a part of the audience, but with a better seat, seeing the orchestra perform, the conductor conduct and hearing the applause of the actual viewers.
		Yet, the opera itself is depressing as hell and if you want to sit through hours of opera that never seem to end which include lies, infidelity, betrayal, incest, murder, and in which everybody dies in the end, I'd stick with Wagner's "Ring." Somehow, the investment seems more rewarding to me.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068UXI?v=glance (1844 words)

	TOSCA, Welsh National Opera,The Apollo Oxford
		Welsh National Opera's production recalls the history of Tosca, with sets which make Rome a solid, almost aggressively tangible presence and Pre-Raphaelite notes in the clothes and paintings.
		The famous opera singer Tosca is in love with the painter Cavaradossi, but jealous, and her suspicions seem confirmed when he starts acting suspiciously.
		The solidity of the sets is undermined by a multplicity of doors; secret doors, doors which shut out love and let in danger, doors behind which police and torture and death are waiting.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/theatre/tosc.htm (322 words)

	Welsh National Opera at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
		Opera Live has details of Welsh National Opera's new season.
		Both operas have gripping plots of infidelity, passion and revenge on cheating lovers with and both with tragic endings.
		This Italian double-bill has special significance for WNO and its audiences — it was the first evening of opera the company ever performed in 1946.
	www.the-mayflower.com /event.asp?show=WNOCP05 (249 words)

	Ananova - Welsh National Opera announces new productions for autumn
		Two new productions will be included in the autumn season of Welsh National Opera, which opens in the New Theatre, Cardiff on September 16.
		The opera will be performed in the Berlioz version and will see the return of French directing duo Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser to WNO, following their previous success with Carmen and Fidelio in 1997 and Iphigenie en Tauride in 1992.
		The performance is conducted by WNO head of music Julian Smith.
	www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_53247.html (315 words)

	Welsh National Opera - Unine 2003
		Welsh National Opera is at the Bristol Hippodrome in June 2003.
		If you would like tickets via the Senior Common Room, please let me know (Email: L.J.Humphreys or Tel: 5248) by 30th April which opera(s) and how many tickets you would like to book.
		Seats costing £27 are available to SCR Members at the reduced rate of £21 each.
	internal.bath.ac.uk /scr/WNOJune2003.htm (100 words)

	Welsh National Opera presents The Merry Widow ( Tue 1 & Thu 3 Nov, 7.15pm)
		Welsh National Opera presents The Marriage of Figaro (Wed 15 & Sat 18 Mar, 7pm)
		Welsh National Opera presents The Flying Dutchman (Tue 14 & Fri 17 Mar, 7.15pm)
		Set in the thrilling days of decadent, nineteeth century Paris, with its intoxicating whirl of elegant ladies and eligible batchelors, this dazzling operetta is brimming with glorious music, soaring voices, sensuous waltzes and glittering Parisian couture, with Lesley Garrett in the title role.
	www.birminghamhippodrome.com /mk2/live/listings/shows_2004/more.asp?showID=100 (198 words)

	Welsh National Opera found Swiftly
		Welsh National Opera (WNO) will be making a new opera house out...
		Welsh National Opera offers low-cost tickets at Wales Millennium Centre to compete with rugby and cinema.
		WNO website gives a host of information about forthcoming operas in Wales and the UK...
	www.rlps.co.uk /classic/welsh_national_opera.html (492 words)

	Welsh National Opera season - October 2001
		Welsh National Opera's return visit to Sadler's Wells provides an opportunity to see two operas rarely performed as fully staged productions, Leonore and Beatrice and Benedict.
		Leonore is a new production of Beethoven's opera not fully staged in the UK for over 30 years
		It is a story of love, bravery and the triumph of good over evil.
	www.sadlers-wells.com /whats_on/autumn2001/opera.asp (262 words)

	Don Giovanni - Welsh National Opera in Plymouth
		Welsh National Opera @ Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 9 July 2003
		And therein perhaps lies the answer to one of the operas ambiguities: Zerlina's aria Batti, batti insists on violent punishment: that Masetto beat her and gouge her eyes, knowing he would never do such a thing.
		But rather than being consumed by the intended fire the pages scarcely ignite before guttering out - a candle-like flame of libertine, having provided - like this performance - little to satisfy in the way of either heat or illumination.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/don-giovanni-4.htm (551 words)

	Andrew Cooper: Welsh National Opera
		The Welsh National Opera was founded in 1946 and for a number of years was a part-time company specialising in choral works.
		There is a WNO Web-site with details of productions, synopses, casts, venues, etc.
		I don't see WNO productions very often these days, but I saw a lot of the company in its heyday in the 1970s, when Brian McMaster (now
	www.personal.leeds.ac.uk /~lib6arc/welsh.html (171 words)

	Learn more about Opera house in the online encyclopedia.
		An opera house is a building where opera and other forms of performing arts are performed.
		Learn more about Opera house in the online encyclopedia.
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/op/opera_house.html (115 words)

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