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the collapse of a plan for a purpose built home for the company the cardiff bay opera house 70 during the 1990s wno made its proms debut with a complete performance of mozart s idomeneo conducted by mackerras in 1991 71 the company played three short seasons at the royal opera house covent garden in the mid 1990s featuring tristan und isolde and la favorita in 1993 the yeomen of the guard in 1995 and the rake s progress and the jubilee double bill of cavalleria rusticana and pagliacci in 1996 72 n 6 in 1996 wno commissioned sir peter maxwell davies to write an opera for the occasion of the company s 50th anniversary the resulting opera was the doctor of myddfai whose libretto written by david pountney and included welsh language songs based on a 12th century folk tale it premiered on 10 july 1996 at the north wales theatre in llandudno with following performances in 1996 75 it was designed by sue huntley and donna muir 21st century edit the company entered the new millennium in a state of some turmoil a financial crisis had led to redundancies in the orchestra and the curtailment of the touring schedule the conservative works chosen for 2001 02 were condemned by the press as the dullest programme in recent memory and rizzi was about to be replaced by a young and untried successor tugan sokhiev 76 rizzi had gained great respect and affection during his nine year term as musical director his successor s reign was brief and unhappy having taken up post in 2003 sohkiev resigned precipitately the following year rizzi agreed to reorganise his schedule and to public and critical acclaim returned to the musical directorship in time to prepare the company for its long awaited move into a permanent base in cardiff 77 welsh millennium centre cardiff wno s home base since 2004 after the collapse of the cardiff bay opera house scheme a new project the wales millennium centre met with more success the necessary consents and funding were obtained and work began in 2002 on a new multipurpose arts centre on the cardiff bay site the centre included a 1 900 seat theatre which among other uses became wno s home base from 2004 with its own rehearsal space and offices in the complex 78 in the first decade of the 21st century wno gave more than 120 performances a year with a repertoire generally of eight full scale operas its regular audience figures totalled over 150 000 annually in ten principal venues three of them in wales and seven in england 79 n 7 during this period the company was criticised for being insufficiently welsh a local politician adam price said that wno ought to have a welsh musical director alun hoddinott said in 2004 wno has put on perhaps four or five welsh operas over 20 years they just seem to have an anti welsh music bias i am sad that they do not do something for welsh composers especially young ones 79 a more positive view of wno came from scotland where the two main newspapers the scotsman and the herald greeted a visit from the company in 2005 with enthusiastic praise contrasting the flourishing of opera in wales with its neglect by politicians in scotland and the consequent decline of scottish opera 80 in 2010 wno commissioned gair ar gnawd word on flesh by pwyll ap siôn and menna elfyn with words in welsh described as a contemporary story about wales today inspired by the translation of the bible 81 it s a long haul if you go by the clock into the theatre at four out at ten but if you go by the exhilaration surging through your veins during this welsh national opera triumph it s an extended moment of operatic bliss that you never want to end richard morrison in the times on wno s 2010 die meistersinger 82 from 2006 to 2011 the chief executive titled artistic director was john fisher his term overlapped with that of lothar koenigs who was music director from 2009 to 2016 a highlight of this period was the 2010 production of die meistersinger produced by richard jones with bryn terfel as hans sachs 83 in 2011 david pountney was appointed to succeed fisher as chief executive he had worked with the company since the 1970s most recently on a 2006 the flying dutchman with terfel which was set in space 84 in 2013 he programmed a trilogy of operas set in tudor england donizetti s anna bolena maria stuarda and roberto devereux 85 with another trilogy the following year on the theme of fallen women puccini s manon lescaut henze s boulevard solitude and verdi s la traviata 86 for 2016 pountney scheduled another trilogy this time on the theme of figaro consisting of mozart s the marriage of figaro and rossini s the barber of seville and a new work figaro gets a divorce with music by elena langer and libretto by pountney 87 in september 2015 wno announced the appointment of tomáš hanus as its next music director taking office for the 2016 17 season simultaneously carlo rizzi was named the company s conductor laureate with immediate effect from 2019 to 2023 aidan lang was general director of the company 88 in december 2023 wno announced christopher barron as interim general director effective january 2024 to guide the company during a period of change as a result of simultaneous funding cuts from arts council england and arts council wales in 2022 and 2023 respectively 89 barron remained in the post until september 2024 in july 2024 wno announced the appointments of adele thomas and sarah crabtree as co ceos general directors effective january 2025 90 recordings edit although the chorus and orchestra of welsh national opera have appeared on many commercial recordings often featuring regular wno soloists there have been few sets either audio or video of the company s own productions among those are tristan und isolde conducted by goodall 1981 91 pelléas et mélisande conducted by boulez 1992 92 the yeomen of the guard conducted by mackerras 1995 n 8 the doctor of myddfai conducted by armstrong 1998 95 and ariodante conducted by ivor bolton directed by david alden 1999 96 the bbc made a studio video recording of a wno cast in katya kabanova conducted by armstrong in 1982 97 the wno chorus and orchestra have been engaged for studio opera recordings unconnected with the company s productions including hamlet 1983 norma 1984 anna bolena 1987 ernani 1987 and adriana lecouvreur 1988 conducted by richard bonynge 91 faust 1993 and katya kabanova 1994 conducted by rizzi and gloriana 1993 eugene onegin 1994 and jenůfa 2004 conducted by mackerras 98 for the wno jubilee in 1996 decca drew on some of its studio recordings for a celebratory cd set with contributions from many soloists who had appeared onstage with the company and some who had not the latter including joan sutherland luciano pavarotti montserrat caballé and thomas hampson 99 the orchestra of wno has made studio recordings of non operatic music by elgar delius coleridge taylor and george lloyd and several sets of traditional welsh songs and crossover music 91 98 music directors edit idloes owen 1943 1952 leo quayle 1952 1953 frederick behrend 1953 1955 vilém tauský 1955 warwick braithwaite 1956 1961 charles groves 1961 1963 bryan balkwill 1963 1966 james lockhart 1968 1973 richard armstrong 1973 1986 sir charles mackerras 1987 1992 carlo rizzi 1992 2001 tugan sokhiev 2003 2004 carlo rizzi 2004 2007 lothar koenigs 2009 2016 tomáš hanus 2016 present source oxford dictionary of music 1943 2009 and wno 2009 16 100 awards edit welsh national opera has been nominated for or won nearly every uk opera prize including winning the olivier award in 1998 and in 1999 the royal philharmonic society awarded its music award for outstanding achievement in opera in 1999 2000 and 2001 giving the company the distinction as the only arts organisation to have won the award for three consecutive years 101 wno s production of pelléas and mélisande 1992 won the international classical music awards phyllida lloyd s production of poulenc s the carmelites for wno won the royal philharmonic society music award for outstanding achievement in opera in 1999 winning jointly with eno as co producers 102 the production of the coronation of poppea in 1997 by david alden won wno more awards than any other production winning the evening standard award the royal philharmonic society and the barclays theatre awards 103 patrons edit in 1982 wno gained its first patron in diana princess of wales as patron she attended many gala concerts in new theatre cardiff dominion theatre london royal opera house covent garden brooklyn academy of music new york and in 1984 she opened the new purpose built headquarters princess of wales building in john street cardiff her attendance at a performance by wno in new york in 1989 caused much excitement and for road repairs to be immediately carried out their visit was seen in an episode of episode 10 war series 4 of the crown 104 when in 1996 princess diana resigned as patron wno welcomed hrh charles prince of wales as their new patron see also edit opera portal after aida list of opera houses lists of opera companies notes references and sources edit notes edit smith had been secretary to the pre war cardiff grand opera society and when approached by owen he was dubious that the proposed company was any likelier to survive than the old society 12 the main company played in birmingham bristol cardiff liverpool llandudno stratford upon avon and swansea and the medium sized group appeared at aberystwyth haverfordwest rhyl and wrexham 42 these dates are those of the wno stagings of the co productions the scottish opera stagings were in 1977 1981 1987 1979 and 1987 respectively 49 mackerras had first worked with wno in 1950 when as a young conductor he had been in charge for the tales of hoffmann at that time he privately wrote of an atrocious orchestra shockingly out of tune and the singers mainly amateur and unreliable 59 in wagner s siegfried the eponymous hero after tasting the blood of a dragon is suddenly able to understand what a friendly bird is 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