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October 2022

The Royal Opera House: Aida (Verdi)

Wed, 12th October, 2022 @ 18:45pm - 22:10pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

he Royal Opera House: Aida (Verdi) Wednesday 12th October 6.45pm Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the ambitious soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. As they draw closer together, each must make an agonizing choice between their loyalty to home, and their love for each other. ★★★★"Robert Carsen's prescient new production of Verdi's opera finds parallels in today's headlines." Culture Whisper ★★★★The Daily Express In this new production, director…

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Live: Mid Wales Opera: Puss in Boots

Sat, 15th October, 2022 @ 19:30pm - 22:00pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £16

Montsalvatge’s ‘Puss in Boots ’El Gato con Botas MWO Small Stages Autumn 2022 Mid Wales Opera’s fifth Small Stages tour kicks off our Fairy Tales season with Catalan composer Montsalvatge’s beautifully crafted one-act version of the familiar tale of ‘Puss in Boots’, El Gato conbotas. Premiered in Barcelona in 1948 and rarely performed, this age-old children’s story tells of the wealth-seeking, match-making cat who, in return for a hat, a sword and a pair of boots, secures for his young…

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February 2023

Royal Opera House: Barber of Seville

Sun, 19th February, 2023 @ 14:00pm - 17:25pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

Via Satellite With vocal fireworks, scheming lovers and one very busy barber, Rossini’s comic opera is packed with fun and mischief. When Rosina falls in love with a mysterious young suitor who calls himself Lindoro, she must use all her cunning – and a little help from her local barber – to outwit her calculating guardian Dr Bartolo. Expect heart-melting serenades, ridiculous disguises and a fairytale ending waiting just out of reach. From the barber’s famous opening number ‘Largo al…

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March 2023

The Royal Opera House: Turandot

Sun, 26th March, 2023 @ 14:00pm - 17:30pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

Screening Via Satellite Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama in Andrei Serban’s classic staging. In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers one correctly, suddenly he holds all the power – and a glorious secret. When life hangs in the balance, can love conquer all? Puccini’s score is rich in musical marvels (featuring the famous aria ‘Nessun dorma’), while…

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April 2023

The Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

Thu, 27th April, 2023 @ 18:45pm - 22:20pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

  Director David McVicar brings out the revolutionary elements in Mozart’s great comic opera of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness. Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there’s a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be. With more twists than a page boy’s stockings, the story of Mozart’s comic opera will surprise and delight you at every turn. Come for the music and stay for the cross-dressing…

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June 2023

The Royal Opera House: IL TROVATORE  ( Verdi)

Sun, 18th June, 2023 @ 14:00pm - 17:25pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

  IL TROVATORE Screening Via Satellite A devastating curse rises from the ashes in Verdi’s monumental tale of superstition and rivalry. ★★★★★"Cruelty played out with anarchic imagination Adele Thomas’s visually arresting production mixes levity with tragedy, as fervent orchestral play is matched by expressive singing from a fine cast." The Guardian Full Review   ★★★★"Mezzo Jamie Barton is astonishing in Royal Opera’s sparkling staging. Adele Thomas’s production invests Verdi’s work with madcap humour." i Passions run high as Manrico and…

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September 2023

The Royal Opera: DAS RHEINGOLD

Wed, 20th September, 2023 @ 19:15pm - 22:00pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

Live Via Satellite New production ★★★★ "Eeriness and nudity – the Royal Opera’s new Rheingold is an edgy joy. For the first in his new four-year Ring cycle, Barrie Kosky pares back the sumptuousness to create a more elemental Wagnerian spectacle" The Telegraph ★★★★"With the figure of earth goddess Erda present throughout, the message – of the despoliation of the natural world – is clear. There’s no weak link in a uniformly strong cast, and in the pit Pappano has the…

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October 2023

The Royal Opera House: L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti)

Thu, 5th October, 2023 @ 19:15pm - 22:15pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £14

Live Via Satellite  Expect sun, fun and vocal acrobatics in Laurent Pelly’s much-loved staging of Donizetti’s intoxicating and witty comedy. Country boy Nemorino is determined to win the haughty Adina’s heart, but she refuses to give him the time of day. Can Doctor Dulcamara’s so-called ‘elixir of love’ work its magic? Conductor Sesto Quatrini makes his house debut, as does soprano Nadine Sierra in the role of Adina. She is joined by Liparit Avetisyan, Boris Pinkhasovich and the incomparable Bryn…

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Live Mid Wales Opera : Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)

Fri, 13th October, 2023 @ 19:30pm - 21:30pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £16

We are delighted to be hosting the Opening night of Mid Wales Opera's  production of  Berlioz – Beatrice and Benedict (based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing) Beatrice and Benedict are both determined to stay single. Beatrice is a woman who despises men (especially Benedict) and Benedict can’t abide women (particularly Beatrice). That is until their friends plot to bring them together and they both ‘accidentally’ overhear whispers of each other’s unrequited passion; the spark of love is ignited by…

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January 2024

The Royal Opera House: Rusalka ( Dvorak)

January 28 @ 14:00pm - 17:45pm
SpArC Theatre
£8 – £13

Via Satellite ★★★★" junk-filled staging brings magic and a sombre message" The Guardian This poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale reveals our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it "The opening was simply stunning. Two aerialists, representing Rusalka and the Prince, meet underwater in her unpolluted lake and swim in a state of bliss under the vast expanse of the Garden’s proscenium arch, twisting, diving and then ascending up high.…

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