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    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Welsh National Opera performs From the House of the Dead with unstinting commitment

      A memorable production of Janáček’s idiosyncratic work at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2017
      Special ReportDoing Business in Cardiff
      Cawl, clubbing and culture — a visitor’s guide to Cardiff

      Enjoy the vibrant art, theatre and music scenes — but don’t sneer at the stew

    • Monday, 11 February, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Lulu, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

      Two singers rise above the mess of David Pountney’s ultra-contrived staging

    • Wednesday, 30 January, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Rigoletto, Metropolitan Opera, New York

      Michael Mayer’s super-glitzy, hyper-kitschy Rigoletto exults in the rat-packy decadence of Las Vegas c.1960

    • Friday, 17 August, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Tristan und Isolde, Usher Hall

      The Welsh National Opera translates its experience of the theatre to the concert platform

    • Monday, 30 January, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Wagner Dream, Barbican, London

      Jonathan Harvey’s Buddhist opera shackles a slowly building luminous score to a clunky libretto

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
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      Cendrillon, Royal Opera House, London
    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2011
      Music
      Die Fledermaus, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
    • Friday, 21 January, 2011
      ReviewUK business & economy
      Performers woo rich to make ends meet
    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2010
      Life & Arts
      Riga Opera Festival, Latvian National Opera, Riga
    • Friday, 11 June, 2010
      Life & Arts
      Bryn Terfel: ‘The role fits me in every way’
    • Monday, 15 February, 2010
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      The Abduction from the Seraglio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
    • Saturday, 16 January, 2010
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      James MacMillan: The Sacrifice
    • Monday, 7 September, 2009
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      Rusalka, Norwegian National Opera, Oslo
    • Thursday, 14 May, 2009
      Work & Careers
      After work culture
    • Thursday, 14 May, 2009
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      A Falstaff with a sense of proportion
    • Monday, 14 July, 2008
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      Juan Diego Flórez, Barbican, London
    • Sunday, 16 March, 2008
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      Arts around the world
    • Tuesday, 4 March, 2008
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      Falstaff, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
    • Monday, 28 January, 2008
      Life & Arts
      The Queen of Spades, Opéra de Lyon
    • Sunday, 23 September, 2007
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      The Sacrifice, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
    • Monday, 28 May, 2007
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      Duke Bluebeard’s Castle/The Seven Deadly Sins, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
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      Lucia di Lammermoor, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
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      Philharmonia Orchestra, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
    • Tuesday, 26 December, 2006
      Life & Arts
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