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New Directions Blog March 2024
Music Theatre Wales is releasing two new Digital Opera Shorts commissioned as part of our New Directions programme.

Music. Theatre. Wales. a reflection on our year and a look ahead to 2024
As we reach the end of 2023, I wanted to share with you what a year it has been, working in multiple forms and with the widest range of creatives imaginable, embracing live performance, digital works, young creatives and street art.

Music. Theatre. Wales. at the Ivors
Violet by Tom Coult and Alice Birch receives its 4th major award nomination AND The Scorched Earth Trilogy by Brian Irvine is also nominated for Best Stage Work.

Arts Council of Wales investment review funding
We are happy to have received multi-year support from Arts Council of Wales to enable us to continue our mission to re-imagine opera as a more widely available and expressive form of storytelling in music for all.

PWSH public mural at Spit & Sawdust
PWSH have been commissioned by Music Theatre Wales to create a new public mural at Spit & Sawdust to respond to the climate crisis.

VIOLET is nominated for the Southbank Sky Arts Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Violet has been nominated for the Opera award in the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Awards.

Music Theatre Wales’s Future Directions Project Receives Anthem’s Atsain Funding
We are delighted to announce that Music Theatre Wales has received Atsain funding from Anthem Music Fund Wales for 2023 to support our project Future Directions.

Music Theatre Wales production VIOLET nominated for International Opera Awards
Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts production of Violet has received a second award nomination in the space of a week. Violet has been nominated in the World Premiere category for the 2022 International Opera Awards.

Violet from Music Theatre Wales receives nomination for a UK Theatre Award
Composed by Tom Coult with the libretto by Alice Birch, the production was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it finally reached the stage it received rave reviews across the UK press.
MTW’s most recent commissions are going international
Two new productions of Violet have been announced within one year of the work being premiered – in Ulm, Germany and in Paris.

New Directions Blog March 2024
Music Theatre Wales is releasing two new Digital Opera Shorts commissioned as part of our New Directions programme.

Music. Theatre. Wales. a reflection on our year and a look ahead to 2024
As we reach the end of 2023, I wanted to share with you what a year it has been, working in multiple forms and with the widest range of creatives imaginable, embracing live performance, digital works, young creatives and street art.

Music. Theatre. Wales. at the Ivors
Violet by Tom Coult and Alice Birch receives its 4th major award nomination AND The Scorched Earth Trilogy by Brian Irvine is also nominated for Best Stage Work.

Arts Council of Wales investment review funding
We are happy to have received multi-year support from Arts Council of Wales to enable us to continue our mission to re-imagine opera as a more widely available and expressive form of storytelling in music for all.

PWSH public mural at Spit & Sawdust
PWSH have been commissioned by Music Theatre Wales to create a new public mural at Spit & Sawdust to respond to the climate crisis.

VIOLET is nominated for the Southbank Sky Arts Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Violet has been nominated for the Opera award in the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Awards.

Music Theatre Wales’s Future Directions Project Receives Anthem’s Atsain Funding
We are delighted to announce that Music Theatre Wales has received Atsain funding from Anthem Music Fund Wales for 2023 to support our project Future Directions.

Music Theatre Wales production VIOLET nominated for International Opera Awards
Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts production of Violet has received a second award nomination in the space of a week. Violet has been nominated in the World Premiere category for the 2022 International Opera Awards.

Violet from Music Theatre Wales receives nomination for a UK Theatre Award
Composed by Tom Coult with the libretto by Alice Birch, the production was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it finally reached the stage it received rave reviews across the UK press.
MTW’s most recent commissions are going international
Two new productions of Violet have been announced within one year of the work being premiered – in Ulm, Germany and in Paris.

New Directions Blog March 2024
Music Theatre Wales is releasing two new Digital Opera Shorts commissioned as part of our New Directions programme.

Music. Theatre. Wales. a reflection on our year and a look ahead to 2024
As we reach the end of 2023, I wanted to share with you what a year it has been, working in multiple forms and with the widest range of creatives imaginable, embracing live performance, digital works, young creatives and street art.

Music. Theatre. Wales. at the Ivors
Violet by Tom Coult and Alice Birch receives its 4th major award nomination AND The Scorched Earth Trilogy by Brian Irvine is also nominated for Best Stage Work.

Arts Council of Wales investment review funding
We are happy to have received multi-year support from Arts Council of Wales to enable us to continue our mission to re-imagine opera as a more widely available and expressive form of storytelling in music for all.

PWSH public mural at Spit & Sawdust
PWSH have been commissioned by Music Theatre Wales to create a new public mural at Spit & Sawdust to respond to the climate crisis.

VIOLET is nominated for the Southbank Sky Arts Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Violet has been nominated for the Opera award in the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Awards.

Music Theatre Wales’s Future Directions Project Receives Anthem’s Atsain Funding
We are delighted to announce that Music Theatre Wales has received Atsain funding from Anthem Music Fund Wales for 2023 to support our project Future Directions.

Music Theatre Wales production VIOLET nominated for International Opera Awards
Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts production of Violet has received a second award nomination in the space of a week. Violet has been nominated in the World Premiere category for the 2022 International Opera Awards.

Violet from Music Theatre Wales receives nomination for a UK Theatre Award
Composed by Tom Coult with the libretto by Alice Birch, the production was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it finally reached the stage it received rave reviews across the UK press.
MTW’s most recent commissions are going international
Two new productions of Violet have been announced within one year of the work being premiered – in Ulm, Germany and in Paris.

New Directions Blog March 2024
Music Theatre Wales is releasing two new Digital Opera Shorts commissioned as part of our New Directions programme.

Music. Theatre. Wales. a reflection on our year and a look ahead to 2024
As we reach the end of 2023, I wanted to share with you what a year it has been, working in multiple forms and with the widest range of creatives imaginable, embracing live performance, digital works, young creatives and street art.

Music. Theatre. Wales. at the Ivors
Violet by Tom Coult and Alice Birch receives its 4th major award nomination AND The Scorched Earth Trilogy by Brian Irvine is also nominated for Best Stage Work.

Arts Council of Wales investment review funding
We are happy to have received multi-year support from Arts Council of Wales to enable us to continue our mission to re-imagine opera as a more widely available and expressive form of storytelling in music for all.

PWSH public mural at Spit & Sawdust
PWSH have been commissioned by Music Theatre Wales to create a new public mural at Spit & Sawdust to respond to the climate crisis.

VIOLET is nominated for the Southbank Sky Arts Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Violet has been nominated for the Opera award in the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Awards.

Music Theatre Wales’s Future Directions Project Receives Anthem’s Atsain Funding
We are delighted to announce that Music Theatre Wales has received Atsain funding from Anthem Music Fund Wales for 2023 to support our project Future Directions.

Music Theatre Wales production VIOLET nominated for International Opera Awards
Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts production of Violet has received a second award nomination in the space of a week. Violet has been nominated in the World Premiere category for the 2022 International Opera Awards.

Violet from Music Theatre Wales receives nomination for a UK Theatre Award
Composed by Tom Coult with the libretto by Alice Birch, the production was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it finally reached the stage it received rave reviews across the UK press.
MTW’s most recent commissions are going international
Two new productions of Violet have been announced within one year of the work being premiered – in Ulm, Germany and in Paris.