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	Welsh National Opera - 2011/2012 Enlarge Location : Cardiff Start Date : Fri 01/06/2012 00:00 End Date : Fri 01/06/2012 00:00 WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: 2011/2012 Autumn 11 New Production Don Giovanni/Mozart First Night: 16 September at 7.00pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Sung in Italian with English and Welsh surtitles. Revival The Barber of Serville/Rossini First Night: 22 September at 7.15pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Sung in English with English and Welsh subtitles. Revival Katya Kanbanova/Janácek First Night: 6 October at 7.15pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Sung in Czech with English and Welsh surtitles. Spring Revival The Marriage of Figaro/Mozart First Night: 25 February at 7.00pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Sung in Italian with English and Welsh surtitles. Revival La traviata/Verdi First Night: 11, February at 7.15pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Sung in Italian with English and Welsh surtitles. Revival Beatrice and Benedict/Berlioz First Night: 17 February at 7.15pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Sung in English with English and Welsh subtitles Summer New Production Le bohème/Puccini First Night: 1 June at 7.15pm. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Sung in Italian with English and Welsh surtitles. Revival Tristan and Isolde/Wagner First Night: 19 May at 5.00pm Sung in German with English and Welsh surtitles. There are two major new productions in the 2011/2012 season. A new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni opens the season, directed by John Caird and designed by John Napier. Welsh baritone David Kempster makes his debut in the title role. Acclaimed director Annabel Arden makes her company debut with a new production of Puccini’s La bohème. The cast includes Anita Hartig (Mimì), Alex Vicens (Rodolfo), and David Kempster (Marcello). “Bohème is a piece full of excitement, glamour and brilliance,” Arden says. “It is also austere, haunting and harsh.” Carlo Rizzi returns to WNO to conduct. WNO’s Music Director Lothar Koenigs conducts three operas this season, for which he has a great passion, including a revival of Yannis Kokkos’s production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, This is the first time Koenigs will conduct the opera which inspired him to enter the profession. He will also conduct Mozart’s Don Giovanni and a revival of Katie Mitchell’s production of Janácek’s Katya Kabanova, with Amanda Roocroft in the title role. WNO continues its celebration of one of the greatest partnerships in opera with performances of all three collaborations between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte over three consecutive seasons: Così fan tutte (Summer 2011); Don Giovanni (Autumn 2011) and a revival of Lluis Pasqual’s production of The Marriage of Figaro with a cast that includes Rebecca Evans (Countess Almaviva), David Soar (Figaro), Elizabeth Watts (Susanna), Cora Burggraaf (Cherubino) and Dario Solari (Count Almaviva). This season also sees a large number of company debuts, including Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury and Mexican tenor Carlos Osuna in a revival of David McVicar’s production of La traviata, singing the roles of Violetta and Alfredo respectively, and Swedish soprano Ann Petersen and American tenor Jay Hunter Morris in the title roles of Tristan and Isolde. Julia Jones makes her company debut conducting La traviata, whilst Alexander Polianichko returns to conduct his first The Barber of Seville. Polianichko conducted WNO’s award winning production of Mazepa (2006). WNO commissions two new works in the 2011-2012 season. Gair ar Gnawd (literally, Word on the Skin), a new oratorio by Welsh composer Pwyll ap Sion, will be performed in Spring 2012. It is nspired by William Morgan, the first person to translate the whole Bible into Welsh from Greek and Hebrew in the 16th century. Award winning poet Menna Elfyn has written the libretto, which focuses on two main characters: a translator living in contemporary Wales busy translating the Bible into many other languages and a young woman tattooist who is literally making the word flesh through her art of painting on skin. The cast includes a community choir which will be recruited as part of WNO’s new three-year commitment to working with the communities of North Wales. The second new commission is The Face in the Mirror (working title) which will be given its world premiere by WNO Singing Club at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, in June 2012. Composer Lynne Plowman and librettist Martin Riley are joining forces to create an intriguing new work, which sees a group of young street people time travel back to the 1940s after coming across some mysterious treasures found in a derelict house. Lynne Plowman was British Composer Award winner in 2003. From sumptuous afternoon teas to singing workshops, from in-depth study afternoons to audio described performances, WNO is also offering a range of extra activities around its performances for audiences in Cardiff and on tour in Wales and England. Full details of WNO Extra activities can be found at www.wno.org.uk. Further information: Ruth Greenwood Press Officer Welsh National Opera Direct Line: 029 2063 5037; Press Mobile: 07971 541068; Switch Board: 029 2063 5000 Book Here