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Dateline: 6th May, 2005
The New WNO Season Welsh National Opera's new season, their second in the new Wales Millennium Centre, opens on 14th May with a new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, directed by the RSC's Dominic Cooke and designed by Julian Crouch. The production features Rebecca Evans as Pamina, Peter Wedd as Tamino, Katarzyna Dondalska as the Queen of the Night and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Papageno. It will run at the WMC on 14th, 20th and 24th May. It is followed by Verdi's Rigoletto, which stars Wynne Evans as the Duke, Jonathan Summers as Rigoletto and Olga Trifonova as Gilda. This is a revival of the 2002 production by James Macdonald and is set in an office which looks very like the Oval Office in the 1960s. It plays in Cardiff on 23rd and 25th May. The third opening will not be at the WMC but at the Swansea Grand, where WNO presents a concert version of Tchaikovsky's rarely performed Iolanta, with Nuccia Focile in the title role. Along with it are excerpts from the composer's ballet suite The Nutcracker. The season will tour to Edinburgh Festival Theatre, North Wales Theatre Llandudno, New Theatre Oxford, Birmingham Hippodrome, The Bristol Hippodrome, The Mayflower Southampton, Liverpool Empire, London Coliseum, Milton Keynes Theatre, Swansea Grand Theatre, and Plymouth Theatre Royal, but Iolante will only play Swansea, Bristol and Birmingham. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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