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BOOK ONLINE
Tickets for WNO performances are sold through our theatres.
To buy tickets online from theatre websites, click on the link below for the theatre of your choice: Birmingham (Birmingham Hippodrome), Bristol (The Bristol Hippodrome), Cardiff (Wales Millennium Centre), Liverpool (Liverpool Empire Theatre), Llandudno (Venue Cymru), Milton Keynes (Milton Keynes Theatre), Oxford (New Theatre Oxford), Plymouth (Theatre Royal), Southampton (The Mayflower, Southampton) and Swansea (Swansea Grand Theatre), Liverpool (Liverpool Empire Theatre),
New to Opera
Opera can be the most complete, exhilarating and overwhelming theatrical experience.
It has something for everyone. If you enjoy music, theatre, film, dance or the visual arts, you're sure to find something you like in this amazing artform. Opera is passion, drama and high emotion - with a unique mix of fine music and captivating theatre.
Welsh National Opera has created a website fresh2opera which we hope will answer your questions, inspires you to find out more and will give you all the information you need to go along to your first opera performance or increase your knowledge and interest in this fantastic artform. Find out more
WNO MAX
Encompassing education and access, WNO MAX creates touring opera, concerts, participatory projects, collaborations and events beyond opera performances on the main-stage. WNO MAX involves company members in projects, whilst challenging and engaging them creatively alongside our objectives for artists, young people, teachers and communities. WNO MAX works throughout Wales and across the cities and regions to which WNO tours in England.
WNO MAX seeks to maximise the potential of opera to electrify and enrapture through participation in, and preparation for live opera experiences. Each season is bursting with WNO MAX projects including new commissions, concerts for schools with the whole Orchestra and instrumental residencies in schools and colleges. These projects all run alongside the main tour and are inspired by and linked to the repertoire.
WNO MAX also has ongoing projects that run throughout the year such as Explore Opera which is an `open rehearsal' of a scene from a current opera involving two singers, a director and a pianist on Saturday afternoons in theatres throughout the mainscale tour; Pre-Performance Talks signposting selected operas; Youth Opera , The Singing Club who are a group of young people who meet to learn about singing and music and Concert Parties - our on-going series of concert parties in residential homes for the elderly, hospitals and hospices.
About Us
Welsh National Opera is Europe's busiest touring opera company and the largest provider of touring opera in the UK serving a catchment area of over 12 million people in some of the most densely populated urban areas in Britain.
In Autumn 2004, WNO moved into its first ever home theatre in the new £100m Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) in Cardiff Bay. The move allows the company a firmer base from which to tour throughout the UK and internationally. With the WMC as its rehearsal and administrative base, along with a significant proportion of its technical production work, WNO is at the heart of one of the most exciting arts buildings to have been created in Europe in decades.
WNO tours extensively throughout Wales, the UK and internationally, presenting over 120 main scale opera performances annually, performing to over 150,000 people in Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Llandudno, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Plymouth, Southampton and Swansea. Once every two years, the Company presents a major season of opera in London. Both the Orchestra and Chorus of WNO also perform concerts at St David's Hall in Cardiff and theatres and concert halls throughout Wales.
WNO has a permanent company of 250 people, made up of orchestra, chorus, principal singers, music staff, production, technical and administrative staff.
Artistic achievement has been recognised by a succession of prestigious UK national awards in recent years, including an Evening Standard Award, a Barclays Theatre Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards and three Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. In December 2002, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to classical music, WNO was awarded a Classic FM Red F Award as part of Classic FM's 10th birthday celebrations.
Welsh National Opera - Celebrating the first 60 years
In 2006 WNO celebrated its 60th birthday, and as part of the celebrations a full colour, hard back book has been produced.
Welsh National Opera - Celebrating the first 60 years celebrates WNO from its post-war infancy as it developed into the major international company it is now.
The book remembers the company's first performance in 1946 and pays tribute to the pioneers of the first forty years of WNO. As a celebration of the last twenty years in particular, it charts the company's growth to musical maturity over the years under its Musical Directors, and shares the memories of the WNO Company.
A photographic essay joins WNO on the road, and another sees the company settle into its new home in the outstanding Wales Millennium Centre.
Today Welsh National Opera is multi-award winning and brings world-class opera to thousands of people across the UK every year.
Productions since 1985 are featured here in both words and pictures - the popular favourites such as Carmen, La bohème and Madam Butterfly, as well as the more challenging operas such as Wozzeck and The Queen of Spades. All are included in this celebratory book in magnificent spreads of photography and text. They will evoke special memories for those who saw these productions, and will entice and captivate anyone who didn't.
Welsh National Opera - Celebrating the first 60 years is a hard back, full colour publication costing £19.99. (Plus p&p £4.00) If you order your copies direct from WNO you will contribute directly to WNO's fundraising for its 60th anniversary and the future.
The book is available to order now. Please contact the marketing department to make your order by email, post, telephone or fax:
Support Us
WNO is a recognised world leader in opera and has a particular reputation for ‘uncovering' opera, both for the experienced and for the new opera-goer. Nine operas are created and toured throughout Wales and England each year and this core programme of prize-winning work is further enhanced by a whole range of special projects that reach widely into the community and contribute resources to education and for the benefit of young people.
To achieve this level and range of activity WNO relies on the unique combination of public funding that it receives from the Arts Council of Wales and the Arts Council of England, in crucial partnership with the private sector – individual donors, patrons, business sponsors, trusts and foundations. Taken on their own, both Arts Council grants are insufficient to support WNO but when brought together and combined with the contributions of the private sector, the result is a vibrant, developing Company offering exceptional value to audiences and communities in England and Wales.
The Development Department at WNO works to develop particular, supportive relationships and to maximise all the Company's potential to attract funding partnerships. A special emphasis is placed on creativity, flexibility, collaborative working and value.
The range of sponsorship opportunities is varied and flexible. We are happy to discuss options and budgets with you to ensure the partnership is as relevant and productive as possible.
Mainscale Opera Production Sponsorship, with UK tour: Click on What's On & Where for details of current repertoire.
City and Season Sponsorship - association with the range of WNO's work in a city to which we regularly perform. The work incorporates mainscale opera performances and a diverse WNO MAX programme.
Performance Sponsorship - sponsorship of an evening's performance.
The support we receive help make it possible to:
Stage new productions and revivals
Give opportunities to talented young artists
Commission new work
Develop audiences
Provide a flexible and wide ranging programme of activities and projects in parallel to our main performances through the work of WNO MAX
Press Office
Welcome to the Press Office of Welsh National Opera.
The Press Office at Welsh National Opera is delighted to help you, as a member of the press, with your enquiry. If you are not a member of the press, you will find full details of our news and productions in the main part of the WNO site using the buttons at the top of the page.
Members of the press - please take a couple of minutes to Register with the Press Office - this will allow us to give you the best service. Your e-mail address will become your user name and you will be asked to give a password of your own choice.
Once you have logged in, you will find all our press releases in full, production information including casting and biographies, and information about WNO and the members of its Company. You will also be able to view and request images from our Photo Gallery
General
New Blood needed for Vampire Band , (12/03/08)
For the first time in its 10-year history Welsh National Youth Opera is holding auditions to recruit a number of dynamic and talented young instrumentalists aged 16-25. The band will perform alongside WNYO company members in the World Premiere of The Calling of Maisy Day, in the Weston Studio at Wales Millennium Centre in July 2008.
Technical Services
Welsh National Opera's Technical Office has wide ranging responsibilities across the organisation. Its primary role is the preparation, mounting and maintenance of new and revived productions for the Company's seasons. In the process of this it also sources, schedules and administrates the technical staff and oversees the work of CTS (the Company's scenery construction division). The technical office is also responsible for vehicles, including the company's fleet of trucks, as well as the administration, leasing and maintenance of all the company's properties.
The office personnel include the Technical Director, Technical Administrator, Technical Manager, Production Manager, Assistant Production Manager, Production Carpenter, Technical Secretary and two Technical Assistants. See the full staff list in About Us for contact details.
Contact Us
Our offices are located at:
Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place,
Cardiff,
CF10 5AL.
Tel: 029 2063 5000
Email: marketing@wno.org.uk
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