MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
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Figaro magnifico
DAVID NICHOLSON welcomes an overdue revival of WNO’s classic production, complete with protests against cuts
Wyn Pencarreg as Doctor Bartolo in WNO's Marriage of Figaro, and members of the WNO chorus protesting cuts
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A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
The Marriage of Figaro
Cardiff Millennium Centre
IF WALES is truly the land of song, then the Welsh National Opera, despite its financial difficulties, is doing its best to live up to the country’s reputation with its revival of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
The company tried to bring its 2016 production of Mozart’s opera back to the stage just as the Covid pandemic struck and audiences have had to wait five years to see this stunning opera.
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