Welsh National Opera reveal 2022/2023 season
Welsh National Opera have announced details of their exciting 2022/2023 season.
Autumn 2022 will open with a new production of The Makropulos Affair, part of WNO’s Janáček Series, which will be directed by Olivia Fuchs, conducted by WNO’s Music Director Tomáš Hanus and based on a play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. It begins as a tale of a never-ending legal dispute between two families, but evolves into a mystery surrounding its central character, Emilia Marty, played by Emma Bell. It will open on 16 September 2022 at Wales Millennium Centre before touring the UK.
This will be followed by a revival of Puccini’s La Bohème, a tale of youth, rebellion and freedom. It will be directed by Annabel Arden and conducted by Pietro Rizzo, making his WNO debut, and will open on 25 September 2022 at the same venue before commencing its UK tour.
Autumn will also see the continuation of the new opera Migrations following its world premiere in Summer 2022. Writers Shreya Sen Handley, Edson Burton and Miles Chambers, Eric Ngalle Charles, Sarah Woods and Sir David Pountney (who also directs), have worked with composer Will Todd to create the libretto of six stories of migration with some drawn from real-life experiences. Matthew Kofi Waldren conducts. It opens at Wales Millennium Centre on 2 October 2022 and will then tour the UK.
On 9 October on the Wales Millennium Centre stage, WNO’s award-winning Youth Opera will give two performances of a modern production of Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki named Cherry Town, Moscow.
The Spring season sees the new feel-good opera Blaze of Glory! from director Caroline Clegg, composer David Hackbridge Johnson and librettist Emma Jenkins. It follows a group of miners in a small village who form a male voice choir to unite the community after a mining disaster. The production will star Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts and will open on 23 February 2023 at Wales Millennium Centre before touring.
Mozart’s classic opera The Magic Flute, directed by Daisy Evans will also be performed in Spring 2023, conducted by Tomáš Hanus. It will travel the UK after opening on 10 March.
Performances of Bernstein’s comic operetta Candide at Wales Millennium Centre in June will bring the 2022/2023 Season to a close.
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