Welsh National Opera
Exciting new production of Verdi’s La Traviata in which the electrifying young French soprano Alexia Cousin makes her British debut.
Return of Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s popular 1997 production of Bizet’s Carmen.
International Australian soprano Cheryl Barker returns for the revival of Katie Mitchell’s 2001 production of Janácek’s Katya Kabanova.
Welsh National Opera’s summer season offers an intriguing mix of three passionate, but very different, tragic ladies of opera. A new production of one of the most popular of all operas, Verdi’s La traviata, featuring Violetta, the chic socialite destined never to enjoy the true love she eventually discovers, will play alongside Bizet’s sensuously teasing gypsy girl, Carmen, and Janácek’s hauntingly fragile Katya Kabanova – with three contrasting singers performing the roles. The young 23 year-old French soprano, Alexia Cousin, who makes her British debut as Violetta; the French/Canadian mezzop-soprano, Nora Sourouzian, who is the WNO’s first French Carmen; and the acclaimed Australian soprano Cheryl Barker who returns to WNO, after her early days as a member of WNO’s Chorus to sing Katya.
The season opens at the New Theatre Cardiff on Saturday 15 May, with an elegantly stylish new production of Verdi’s La Traviata. Directed by the celebrated directorial duo Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser, La Traviata will be their sixth opera for WNO, one of which Carmen, is also being performed this season.
WNO’s Music Director, Tugan Sokhiev, conducts La Traviata following his highly successful Eugene Onegin last season, which heralded the start of WNO’s exciting, rave reviewed, Russian season.
Tour details:- New Theatre, Cardiff 15 May – 5 June. Mayflower Theatre, Southampton 8 – 12 June. Theatre Royal Plymouth 15 – 19 June. Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham 22 – 26 June Hippodrome Theatre, Bristol 29 June – 3 July. Apollo Theatre, Oxford 6 – 10 July. North Wales Theatre, Llandudno 13 – 17 July.
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