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This Sunday, 20th September, Sarah and I present our first programmed work as leaders of @welshnat_opera_cencym.
We are so proud that it’s this ferocious double bill of two outstanding, powerhouse operas: Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex.
@joehillgibbins’s production is everything we could have hoped: sexy, stylish, dangerous. @lidiyaconductor weaves the orchestra through the alternately spine tingling and epic scores. The cast are superb, led by the inimitable @christine.i.rice, @nathanbergofficial and @oglanut with @lparkinsonj making their opera debut! Chorus and orchestra as always, absolutely centre stage (expect a surprise from the mezzos and sopranos).
Brilliant work from @clarkemilla @joehillgibbins @emmawoodsanelli @knightknowles and @kalobence and - of course - the entire WNOCC technical and production teams.
Book tickets now at www.wno.org.uk - you have been warned!
17 Sep 2026
"It's a lot of work - a lot more work than I thought it was" - Jake Watkin, Finance.
Last year - @clementine.schneidermann and @_charlottejames_ came together to create a series of art for our latest Season. The models? 63 members of our own team, from Development, Wigs & Make-up, Marketing and Stage Management to our Chorus and Orchestra and, of course, our volunteer archivist, John.
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Y llynedd, daeth Clémentine Schneidermann a Charlotte James ynghyd i greu cyfres o weithiau celf ar gyfer ein Tymor diweddaraf.
Y modelau? 63 aelod o’n tîm ein hunain - o’r timau Datblygu, Wigiau a Cholur, Marchnata a Rheoli Llwyfan, i’n Corws a’n Cerddorfa ac wrth gwrs, ein harchifydd gwirfoddol, John.
27 Aug 2026
It is with real excitement and great joy that we @welshnat_opera_cencym announce the launch of The Boiler Room: our new r&d space dedicated to the evolution of the art form of opera and to talent development.
A major part of Sarah and my mission at WNOCC is to build the opera company of the future. I am painfully aware that Puccini, Handel, Francesca Caccini: none of them believed they were partaking in a heritage art form. They were all pushing at the outer limits of storytelling through music.
So The Boiler Room is a unique space for composers, directors, artists and visionaries to play and fail and evolve. If we want the next generation of opera makers to truly surprise us, we need to allow them the space and time to challenge the art form and themselves, to take risks and just to try the things that may not feel possible in the current opera market place.
I am so delighted that @jefurness is coming on board as our first Boiler Room Producer. Jack is a director of real curiosity and adventure. And he’s a Cardiff boy who is used to working internationally - a real example of Welsh excellence and the rebellious spirit that makes Welsh performance so restlessly compelling.
And we couldn’t do it without the generous support of @westonfdn . It’s rare and wonderful to find partners who are willing to invest in the future of the art form.
More details soon!
04 Aug 2026
WNO X AMGUEDDFA CYMRU
Hildegard von Bingen’s O rubor sanguinis - as presented by the mezzos and sopranos of the WNO Chorus.
Performed in St Teilo’s Church at St Fagans.
Hildegard’s music features in our production of Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex.
Full video on our Youtube Channel.
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WNO X AMGUEDDFA CYMRU
O rubor sanguinis gan Hildegard von Bingen, wedi’i pherfformio gan fezzos a sopranos Corws WNO.
Wedi’i recordio yn Eglwys Sant Teilo yn Sain Ffagan, lle mae lleisiau, pren a charreg yn rhoi bywyd unigryw i’r gerddoriaeth hon o’r 12fed ganrif.
Mae cerddoriaeth Hildegard yn rhan o’n cynhyrchiad o Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex.
Fideo llawn ar Youtube
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Sopranos
Meriel Andrew
Claire Hampton
Fiona Harrison-Wolfe
Angharad Morgan
Monika Sawa
Mezzos
Carolyn Jackson
Helen Jarmany
Sian Meinir
Francesca Saracino
Stella Woodman
Sophie Yelland
Featuring:
@lidiyaconductor
Video by | Fideo gan:
@auntiemargaretmedia
#WorldOperaDay
25 Oct 2026
“It’s a really brilliant opera for people to come and see…”
What makes Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex the perfect first opera?
In this episode of Intermezzo, Adele Thomas talks with director Joe Hill-Gibbins about his five-star double bill, the music that’s shaped so much of our pop culture, and why you don’t need to be an opera expert to fall in love with it.
Watch the full episode on YouTube - link in bio.
Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex is in @VenueCymru this week! Be sure not to miss it!
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“Mae’n opera wych iawn i bobl ddod i’w gweld…”
Beth sy’n gwneud Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex yn berffaith i’ch cyflwyniad cyntaf i opera?
Yn y bennod hon o Intermezzo, mae Adele Thomas yn sgwrsio â’r cyfarwyddwr Joe Hill-Gibbins am y cynhyrchiad dwbl pum seren hwn, y gerddoriaeth sydd wedi dylanwadu cymaint ar ein diwylliant pop, a pham nad oes angen bod yn arbenigwr opera i syrthio mewn cariad â hi.
Gwyliwch y bennod lawn ar YouTube - dolen yn y bio.
Mae Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex yn Llandudno wythnos 'ma! Peidiwch chi a cholli'r cyfle!
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Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex
Llandudno + Southampton + Oxford + Plymouth.
Tocynnau • Tickets: From • O: £15
Video • Fideo: @auntiemargaretmedia
20 Oct 2026
Meet LJ Parkison - a.k.a Louis Cyfer.
Drag King, working-class legend and our Narrator / Bard for Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex.
In this episode of Intermezzo, LJ sits down with Adele Thomas to discuss their experiences working on Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex, whether a libretto is an ice-cream or a score and how LJ feels like a Sim when they pop on that main stage.
What are you waiting for? The full episode is now available on Youtube. Link in bio!
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Cwrdd â LJ Parkison – a.k.a. Louis Cyfer.
Brenin drag, Brenin y Gogledd ac ein Storïwr / Bardd yn Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex.
Yn y bennod hon o Intermezzo, mae LJ yn eistedd gyda Adele Thomas i drafod eu profiadau yn gweithio ar Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex, ai hufen iâ neu sgôr yw libreto, a sut mae LJ yn teimlo fel Sim pan maen nhw’n camu ar y prif lwyfan.
Beth wyt ti’n aros amdano? Mae’r bennod lawn ar gael nawr ar YouTube. Dolen yn y bio!
Bluebeard's Castle + Oedipus Rex
Cardiff + Llandudno + Southampton + Oxford + Plymouth.
Tocynnau • Tickets: From • O: £15
Bwlch: Pas yr Artist • Artist Pass: £10 tocynnau wrth gefn • standby tickets + mynediad am ddim i ymarfer gwisgo • free dress rehearsal entry
Video • Fideo: @auntiemargaretmedia
04 Sep 2026
What makes A Masked Ball such an extraordinary opera? 🎭
Director @adelethomasdirects reveals how Verdi blended heartbreak, humour and spectacle to create one of his boldest works, and why opera belongs to everyone. Were you there to see it?
Verdi's A Masked Ball is part of the Anderson Opera series.
30 Aug 2026
It has been magical getting to transfer our Ballo in Maschera from @operzuerich to the extraordinary @edintfest. A real joy to be reunited with a company that I have been lucky enough to visit multiple times - this week has been like an enormous family reunion in Edinburgh! The entire house has arrived in Scotland! Special love and admiration to @sawsnaps who has worked miracles as he always does.
And it has been awe inspiring to work with the @edintfest team. A superhuman endeavour to open a huge show like this in the middle of a jam packed festival and doubly insane that everyone does it with pure joy and good humour. My eternal thanks to Nicola, Roy and the team for making it possible.
And personally insane to me to have spent my youth as a director making shows on the fringe, failing, failing better etc and to now have opened a show at the world class EIF. Now we’re opened, it’s time to go scout out the next generation of Welsh talent.
Beautiful photographs by Jess Shurte/ Edinburgh International Festival
27 Aug 2026
On Monday, we @welshnat_opera_cencym start rehearsal for a special production of Puccini’s opera blockbuster, La bohème.
@floris_visser ‘s extraordinary, metaphysical production comes to us after starting life @glyndebourne and it has been a joy to work with the team there to bring this beautiful production to our audiences.
in fact, its elegant set was built by our very own @cardifftheatricalservices, so WNOCC is in it’s DNA.
It’s an unmissable production, miraculously balancing intensely detailed, fizzing human performances with a poetry that transcends pure verisimilitude.
Book tickets now https://wno.org.uk/whats-on/boheme/
Thanks as always to @bwtic @_charlottejames_ @clementine.schneidermann @bleakfabulous for the incredible design work. Dream team xo
13 Aug 2026
On Monday we start rehearsals for @lidiyaconductor and @joehillgibbins double bill of two extraordinary short operas.
Delighted to be partnering with @englishnationalopera to bring back Joe’s thrilling, sexy and scary Bluebeard’s Castle.
Alongside Bluebeard, Joe is creating a new production of Stravinsky’s epic Oedipus Rex - two extraordinary operas ON THE SAME NIGHT! AND if that wasn’t enough, the evening is woven together with the music of Hildegard von Bingen.
Equally epic creative team includes @clarkemilla, @emmawoodsanelli, @kalobence and @knightknowles and a cast to pull your eyes out for, including @christine.i.rice, @nathanbergofficial and @oglanut and with the insane talent of @lparkinsonj
All supported by the Chorus, orchestra and incredible team @welshnat_opera_cencym
Exceptional, world class work being made in Cardiff @walesmillenniumcentre and the most exciting and contemporary concept that pares the pieces back to the bone.
Book tickets now!! at https://wno.org.uk/whats-on/bc-or/
Incredible design, as always by @bwtic
Photographs by @clementine.schneidermann and
@_charlottejames_
06 Aug 2026
It's happening. Mae'n digwydd.
Our new OP-ERA is here, and @adelethomasdirects and Sarah Crabtree are ready to take you through the Season we've been shaping.
Let’s begin.
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Mae ein OP-ERA newydd yma ac mae Adele Thomas a Sarah Crabtree yn barod i’ch tywys drwy’r Tymor y maen nhw wedi bod yn ei lunio.
Dewch i ni ddechrau.
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Tickets available, link in bio.
Tocynnau ar gael yn ein dolen.
Edit • Golygiad: @sashieowen
03 Aug 2026
Finally getting the time to look back at our beautiful launch party. A total joy to invite so many old and new friends back to ours. Here’s to many more.
Music and vibes by the inimitable Don Leisure
03 May 2026
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