The Wales Millennium Centre/Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru in Cardiff has
announced its spring/summer 2006 season:
06 January - 14 January
Footloose the Musical
27 January - 28 January
Max Boyce
11 February 206 - 28 February
Welsh National Opera
The Marriage Of Figaro
17 February - 03 March
Welsh National Opera
The Flying Dutchman (This production is already sold
out)
02 March - 04 March
Welsh National Opera
Jephtha
07 March - 08 March
Paco Peña - Flamenco in Concert
14 March - 18 March
Matthew Bourne's
Edward Scissorhands
19 March
The Mutuals
Charlie Chaplin entered movies in 1914 and in 1916 signed a contract
with the Mutual Film corporation. in the process, with a salary of
$670,000, he became the highest paid entertainer in the world. Mutual
built Chaplin his very own studio and allowed him total freedom to
make twelve. short two-reel films, He had the time of this life, and
recognised this early peroid of filmmaking as the most inventive and
liberating of his career.
This evening will feature screenings of three of the best of The Mutuals
- behind the screen, East Street and the Adventurer, to live musical
accompaniment conducted by Carl Davis, who has written new music for
all of The Mutuals films. Audience members will then have an opportunity
to talk to Carl in a question and Answer session after the performance.
Featuring members of the orchestra of the Welsh National Opera.
25 March - 26 March
The Renegades
Rumble
A hip-hop version of Romeo and Juliet by a German dance company
03 April - 08 April
Cole Porter's
Anything Goes
Starring Angela Rippon, Michael Starke and Barry Howard
11 April - 29 April
Starlight Express
23 April
Kremerata Baltica
A programme of Mozart, Shostakovich and Michael Nyman
17 May - 02 June
Welsh National Opera
Tosca
20 May - 27 May
Welsh National Opera
Mazepa
01 June - 03 June
Welsh National Opera
Don Giovanni
09 June
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
10 June
Al Murray
12 June - 17 June
Jerry Springer the Opera
15 January
Lee Mack
07 March
little d-fects
Crush
Based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Crush follows
two sisters as they join the craziness of 1980's London.
09 March
Ricochet Dance Productions
Man & Woman
10 March
Heaven Scent
One-woman show based on interviews with women across Wales who have
been singers and/or songwriters from the 1930s onwards.
11 March - 12 March
Natya Kala
Exploring the harmonisation of the two very different art-forms of
Bharata Natyam (Classical Indian Dance) choreographed by Kiran Ratna,
and Western music ensemble including mezzo soprano Philippa Reeves.
14 March
Vincent Dance Theatre
Broken Chords
15 March - 16 March
Friends for Dinner
Written for children ages 5-7, it links the topics and themes integral
to the KS1 Science Curriculum.
17 March - 18 March
Red Shift
Get Carter
23 March - 25 March
Earthfall
At Swim Two Boys
Details of free performances on the Tesco Stage/Llwyfan Tesco can be
found on the WMC website here.
