03 Mar 2017
Lakmé
Swansea City Opera/Dinas Abertawe
Theatre Severn
3rd March 2017
The greatest thing one notices at an Opera performance in Shrewsbury is the huge diversity of people that make up the audience. Could this be because of the town’s incredibly eclectic, music scene? It might be; however whatever the reason, theatre goers tonight were treated to the wonderful music of Léo Delibes and the...
04 May 2016
La Boheme
Theatre Severn
4th May 2016
Opera fans and first timers piled into Theatre Severn tonight to share in the welcome return of The Swansea City Opera and their adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Originally the Opera was set in early nineteenth century Paris. Artistic Director, Brendan Wheatley brought it a little nearer in time and set it in nineteen forty-five Paris.
The war was over...
22 May 2015
Opera Dinas Abertawe/Swansea City Opera
Theatre Severn
May:22:2015
Swansea City Opera, to celebrate its tenth year this year, has wheeled out the little performed opera; Charles Gounod’s, Faust.
A cautionary allegory with debauchery, hedonism, mild Homo-eroticism, greed and death as its central themes should be explosive……Well it was! This is a powerful, beautifully framed, presented and...