Our Work
Bwystfilod Aflan
A National Eisteddfod commission by Music Theatre Wales and Music@Aber. Challenging societal norms through opera, dance & film.
Street Art Opera
The Welsh Creative Teams include music creator Eädyth and composer Claire Victoria Roberts working in collaboration with street artists and animators, writers, physical performers and filmmakers.
Rhondda Cynon Taf
MTW will be working in RCT from September 2024 to September 2025, exploring opera as storytelling in music, and as an expressive form for anyone and everyone.
Butetown
Working in collaboration with Arts Active Trust, Hijinx and the Royal Opera House, we have started a long-term project working with people in Butetown and South Cardiff.
GRIEF
GRIEF paints the picture of the pages and stages that we go through when encountering the many aspects that make up grief.
interbeing
interbeing, a term coined by Zen master and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, articulates the interconnected existence of all things.
Perthyn
Music. Theatre. Wales. is excited to present the second Future Directions Digital Opera Perthyn, created during 2023, in partnership with Hijinx.
The Things That Go Unnoticed
The first Digital Opera – The Things That Go Unnoticed – created by the Music Theatre Wales Young Company during 2022.
The Jollof House Party Opera – Original Digital Version
Adeola is a budding chef. He brings style and his specialty, vegan jollof. Asha is a tired, hard-working boss of a neighbourhood café.
Pride (A Lion’s Roar)
Pride (A Lion’s Roar) narrates the experience of prejudice that many people of colour have endured.
Somehow
Somehow is a love song to ourselves, to those we know and those we have yet to meet.
AMAZON
A trip to the AMAZON takes an unexpected turn. Music, text and visuals combine in a poetic reflection on the world we live in.
Opera Philadelphia Digital Sharing
Music Theatre Wales and Opera Philadelphia are sharing new digital pieces created by Black, Asian and global majority artists.
The Scorched Earth Trilogy
Opera as activism, projected on walls as street art. They may make you laugh, but may also make you demand change.
The Jollof House Party Opera – Live
A vegan Nigerian food pop-up served with a 15 minute hip-hop inspired opera.
Violet
Violet has been depressed for as long as she can remember. She lives in the largest house in the village with her husband, Felix and their maid – Laura. At the centre of the village is a clocktower.
Denis & Katya
Two 15-year-olds in love who lived every moment, including their last, online.
The Intelligence Park
Dublin, 1753. A frustrated and impoverished opera composer’s work goes into a spin when he falls for his lead castrato…
Passion
A new co-production with National Dance Company Wales of Pascal Dusapin’s highly acclaimed dance-opera.
Y Tŵr
Y Tŵr explores the extremes of emotion experienced by two lovers over the course of a lifetime together.
The Golden Dragon
Migration, exploitation, hopes and lost dreams are at the heart of The Golden Dragon…
The Devil Inside
The Devil Inside is a gritty, glittery, Faustian fairytale, set firmly in the twenty-first century.
The Trial
An Opera by Philip Glass. Adaptation by Christopher Hampton. Based on the novel by Franz Kafka
The Killing Flower
This two-act chamber opera is based on the true story of Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo’s brutal murder of his wife and her lover.
Ping
Ping is the first opera by the Portuguese composer Vasco Mendonça and based on the text from Samuel Beckett.
Eight Songs For a Mad King
A monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow, based on words of George III.
In The Locked Room
A closed door sparks an obsession so strong that the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to blur.
Ghost Patrol
Ghost Patrol recounts the fall-out after heavy-drinking landlord Alasdair discovers that a homeless thief he has apprehended in his pub is someone he knows…
Greek
A re-telling of Sophocles’s Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex with the setting changed to the East End of London in the 1980s.
In The Penal Colony
A chamber opera in one act and 16 scenes composed by Philip Glass to an English-language libretto by Rudy Wurlitzer.
Timeline
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2017
Y Twr
Guto Puw and Gwyneth Glyn
(Commission 2017)
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2013
Ping
(UK premiere 2013)
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2010
In the Penal Colony
Philip Glass and Rudolph Wurlitzer
(UK premiere 2010)
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2009
Stori’r Milwr
(commissioned 2009)
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2007
Julie
Philippe Boesmans and Luc Bondy
(UK premiere 2007)
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2005
The Knot Garden
Michael Tippett
(2005)