Friends of MWO Garden Concert
Music Director – Charlotte Forrest
Gregynog Hall near Newtown
Sunday 25th July 2021
We’re very proud to introduce the first projects supported by Cerddoriaeth Eich Milltir Sgwâr – Music at Your Place – our open call commissioning programme designed to support artist across Wales working in their own communities during the pandemic.
We asked each of the applicants to introduce their project in their own words, and we’ll be sharing their progress on our social media and website.
Read more in our blog – New Year, New Projects
Find out more about the project Cerddoriaeth eich Milltir Sgwar / Music at Your Place, a joint Mid Wales Opera/Ensemble Cymru project developed in response to COVID-19.
While our Our Friends of Mid Wales Opera Gala summer concert was cancelled because of the pandemic, we were able to create a digital version filmed last August. We hope you enjoy the varied programme put together by Charlotte Forrest, with performances by Fflur Wyn (soprano) and Robyn Lyn Evans (tenor).
Mid Wales Opera crafts and performs fully-staged and intimate touring opera productions at venues across Wales & beyond. We are passionate about opera, taking inspiring productions into theatres and spaces where live opera is rarely seen and bringing it to new audiences. We are committed to nurturing, challenging and encouraging young and fresh talent by casting half or more of our performers from those who have recently graduated or are under thirty years old.
Our Spring 2020 production of Mozart’s comic classic The Marriage of Figaro, in partnership with the Welsh International Academy of Voice, takes a fresh look at this timeless audience favourite.
Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times
“Jonathan Lyness maintained a lively momentum in the pit with his tiny orchestra, single strings allowing the glorious woodwind writing to blossom, underpinning Studer’s basically traditional but always lively staging… [of] this rather lovable Figaro”
Steph Power, The Stage
“Cannily witty, big-hearted production of Mozart’s opera”
www.thestage.co.uk – read the full review
Arts Council Wales, Powys County Council, The Gwendoline and Margaret Davies Charity, Control Techniques Ltd, John Lewis Chairman’s Fund, Millichope Foundation, The Oakdale Trust, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, The Foyle Foundation, The Ashley Family Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, The Fenton Arts Trust and The Friends of Mid Wales Opera.
