Mid Wales Opera (MWO) will showcase Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti” this fall as part of its SmallStages tour. The opera will run from Nov. 7 through Dec. 5, 2025, and stars Samantha Price as Dinah and Samuel Pantcheff as Sam, alongside Kirsty McLean, Sam Marston, and John Ieuan Jones as the jazz trio. Richard Studer directs and designs, with {…}

The Mid Wales Opera has announced that its funding appeal to the Arts Council Wales has been rejected. In a statement from Gareth Williams, Chair of Mid Wales Opera regarding our funding appeal, Williams said, “Our Appeal against the Arts Council Wales’ decision to end our funding from April 2024 has been rejected, despite an admission that their appraisal seriously misrepresented {…}

Mid Wales Opera has announced that the Arts Council will not offer the company multi-annual funding. The company’s chair Gareth Wiliams released a statement that noted, “We are deeply disappointed and indeed shocked at the news that – after 35 years of staging remarkable opera across the length and breadth of Wales – the Arts Council has decided not to {…}