Blaze of Glory!
Author(s):
Composed by David Hackbridge Johnson with a libretto by Emma Jenkins
Company:
Welsh National Opera
Get ready for a toe-tapping, heart-warming adventure in Blaze of Glory!,an uplifting tale set in a 1950s Welsh Valleys community. After a devastating mining disaster a small group of Welsh miners decide to reform their male voice choir to lift spirits and raise the roof. Led by their heroic chorus master and supported by the strong-willed women who stand by them, the men embark on a musical escapade which finds them kidnapping a yodeller, taking part in the historic trans-Atlantic link-up with Paul Robeson and blazing a trail to the Eisteddfodau and beyond.