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Trouble in Treorchy
Music. Theatre. Wales. is excited to present the second Future Directions Digital Opera Perthyn, created during 2023, in partnership with Hijinx.
Cardiff
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.
The One-Night House (Tŷ Unnos)
“On top of a hill, far away from anything or anyone, a mystical house appears overnight, offering travellers the best night of their lives – if they’re willing to pay its price.”
Our Music, Our Story
The voices of the past meet the creative voices of the future in an evening of memory, music and film.
Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd
Inspired by Sufism and hip-hop culture, Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd reveals how creativity can be harnessed as a spiritual practice, following Sana as she pushes back against cultural and societal restraints to explore her innate creativity and claim her place in the world.
Out of Time
A darkly comic and fantastical tale of a future apocalypse in which nature reclaims its beauty and abundance.
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.
Bwystfilod Aflan
A National Eisteddfod commission by Music Theatre Wales and Music@Aber. Challenging societal norms through opera, dance & film.
The Jollof House Party Opera
Adeola is a budding chef. He brings style and his specialty, vegan jollof. Asha is a tired, hard-working boss of a neighbourhood café.
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.
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.
Y Tŵr
Y Tŵr explores the extremes of emotion experienced by two lovers over the course of a lifetime together.
Denis & Katya
Two 15-year-olds in love who lived every moment, including their last, online.
The Jollof House Party Opera – Live
A vegan Nigerian food pop-up served with a 15 minute hip-hop inspired opera.
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.
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.
interbeing
interbeing, a term coined by Zen master and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, articulates the interconnected existence of all things.
GRIEF
GRIEF paints the picture of the pages and stages that we go through when encountering the many aspects that make up grief.
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.
Greek
A re-telling of Sophocles’s Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex with the setting changed to the East End of London in the 1980s.
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…
In The Locked Room
A closed door sparks an obsession so strong that the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to blur.
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.
Ping
Ping is the first opera by the Portuguese composer Vasco Mendonça and based on the text from Samuel Beckett.
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.
The Trial
An Opera by Philip Glass. Adaptation by Christopher Hampton. Based on the novel by Franz Kafka
The Devil Inside
The Devil Inside is a gritty, glittery, Faustian fairytale, set firmly in the twenty-first century.
The Golden Dragon
Migration, exploitation, hopes and lost dreams are at the heart of The Golden Dragon…
Passion
A new co-production with National Dance Company Wales of Pascal Dusapin’s highly acclaimed dance-opera.
The Intelligence Park
Dublin, 1753. A frustrated and impoverished opera composer’s work goes into a spin when he falls for his lead castrato…
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.
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.
Opera Philadelphia Digital Sharing
Music Theatre Wales and Opera Philadelphia are sharing new digital pieces created by Black, Asian and global majority artists.
Somehow
Somehow is a love song to ourselves, to those we know and those we have yet to meet.
Pride (A Lion’s Roar)
Pride (A Lion’s Roar) narrates the experience of prejudice that many people of colour have endured.
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)