The 80-strong voices of WNO Youth Opera will likely be again on stage on the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 27 and 28 Might 2023 with a double invoice that includes two modern, story-based operas, Jonathan Willcocks’ The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Paul Ayres’ The Crab the Performed with the Sea.
The 2 are directed by Angharad Lee, with Dan Perkin conducting an instrumental ensemble, while Céleste Langrée’s designs are impressed by the youth camps of Llangrannog and Glan-Llyn and the vibrancy of village playgrounds.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is Jonathan Willcocks’ musical adaptation of the acquainted legend utilizing a textual content by Robert Browning. The Crab that Performed with the Sea is Paul Ayres’ mini opera-musical for all ages primarily based on the story by Rudyard Kipling.
Full particulars from the WNO web site.