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BIANCO – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

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Director: Firenza Guidi Reviewer: Jacqui Onions The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ In 2012, NoFit State Circus created BIANCO_Time for Beauty with the Eden Project in Cornwall. Re-worked for touring, they now present a new incarnation of the show – BIANCO_Turning Savage. Although described as “the story of a great journey inside and outside ourselves,” a story of any kind [...]

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Welsh National Opera: Madame Butterfly – Theatre Royal, Plymouth

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Writer: Giacomo Puccini Librettists: Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa Director: Joachin Herz Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Madame Butterfly is part of the Welsh National Opera’s spring 2013 Free Spirits tour. This classic opera tells a tale of absolute adoration and devastating heartbreak. Set near Nagasaki, Japan the story focuses on a young Japanese woman who [...]

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Mundo Paralelo – The Riverfront, Newport

Director: Mladen Materic Music: Peter Swaffer-Reynolds Reviewer: Jacqui Onions The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★½☆   Created by Théâtre Tattoo founder, Mladen Materic, Mundo Paralelo is a collaboration between National Theatre Wales and NoFit State and takes the audience on a journey through parallel worlds. The characters of Angelics and Humans are introduced and the audience observes how they interact [...]

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Welsh National Opera: Katya Kabanova – The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

Composer/Librettist: Leos Janacek Conductor: Gareth Jones Director: Katie Mitchell Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ The opening notes of the Welsh National Opera’s ‘Katya Kabanova’ beautifully hint at the tale of woe that unfolds over the opera, composed by Leos Janacek. The storyline follows Katya Kabanova, a woman trapped in both a loveless marriage and a moralistic [...]

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The Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera) – New Theatre, Oxford

Music: W.A. Mozart English Version: Jeremy Sams Director: Dominic Cooke Reviewer: Joshua Rey The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★½☆ How to take the Magic Flute seriously? The story is absurd, like listening to somebody else’s dream narrative; reading the Masonic imagery doesn’t make it a great deal more sensible. Then again, how can one not take seriously some of the [...]

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