one of the greatest and most sublime of all Italian comic operas
Mid Wales Opera is delighted to announce that Welsh-Ukrainian soprano Natalya Romaniw has become the company’s new Honorary Patron.
Watch Natalya sharing her thoughts about becoming our honorary patron on YouTube.
Born in Swansea, Natalya has established an international career on some of the world’s leading opera stages, including the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. She is recognised for her powerful voice and compelling performances, her accolades include being named Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards and winning the Singer Award at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in 2020.
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.
Thanks to the enormous outpouring of love – and money! – from our friends and supporters, and from opera lovers across the country – and a hugely important grant from Powys County Council’s Shared Prosperity Fund allocation, we are now actively developing our artistic plans for the next two years.
Colwinston Charitable Trust, D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Garrick Charitable Trust, Gibbs Trust, Laidlaw Opera Trust, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies Charity, Community Foundation Wales (Powys Church Act Fund), Arts Council Wales/Lottery Funded/Welsh Government, Darkley Trust, Mid Wales Music Trust and Ffonic and our many individual donors – thank you!
