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The Great MWO Bake/Make Off

In honour of MWO’s first ever production of Humperdinck’s classic opera Hansel and Gretel which opens at Hafren in Newtown on Saturday 4th March 2023 and then tours Wales and the Borders, we’re running our very own MWO Bake/Make Off....
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Fairy Tales Season

Launching our 2022/23 Fairy Tales Season

We’re inviting you to join us in a fairytale world of magic and myth with our new season launched at Gregynog Hall on Sunday. Launching our Fairy Tales season at our annual Friends of MWO Gala, Executive Director Lydia Bassett...
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Rodolfo stood on a ladder and singing

Sign Language Week: BSL Interpreted Performance of La bohème

On Thursday 17 March Mid Wales Opera performs La bohème at The Riverfront, Newport with BSL interpretation by Julie Doyle. Sign Language Week runs from 14-20 March. The annual celebration, organised by the British Deaf Association (BDA), promotes awareness of issues affecting sign-language users and the welfare...
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Bridget Wallbank

International Women’s Day with Bridget Wallbank

We simply couldn’t celebrate International Women’s Day without hearing from the one and only Bridget Wallbank. Our Production Manager, Bridget, started out as a Theatre Technician at our home venue The Hafren, Newtown in 1988. She’s been with Mid Wales...
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Elanor Higgins stood in the auditorium of Theatre Hafren

International Women’s Day with Elanor Higgins

International Women’s Day is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Today, we’re celebrating all the incredible women of opera, and particularly those who make our spring 2022 tour of La bohème possible....
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Song Share Project – ‘Music at Your Place’

We’re hugely proud of all our Milltir Sgwâr projects but this Refugee Week we particularly wanted to share Rachel Moràs’ and Meryn Williams work with refugees and asylum seekers alongside Swansea City of Sanctuary. Simply by sharing songs from their...
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Grey Matters: ‘Music at Your Place’ Project

“My covid bubble is my safety bubble, family gets me, family accepts me. Can I remember how to be social? Please don’t make me.” Composer Gareth Churchill’s project for our Cerddoriaeth Eich Milltir Sgwâr programme has been a very personal...
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Chat with Eve Goodman About Her ‘Music at Your Place’ Project

As part of our Milltir Sgwâr programme, Singer-Songwriter Eve Goodman has been sharing stories through songs with her community in Y Felinheli on the shores of the Menai Strait. Inspired by the ancient tradition of the local bard, whose role...
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New Year, New Projects – Music at Your Place!

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’ve...
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