Welsh National Opera Ups The Stakes With New Home

The Welsh National Opera is moving into a big new home – the Welsh Millennium Center. Hopes are high the move will help restore the company’s fortunes. WNO has “endured a number of setbacks in recent seasons: several flops, the unpopular organisational overhaul and the “sudden departure” last summer of the inexperienced young music director Tugan Sokhiev among them. Is the long-serving general director Anthony Freud thinking of moving on? Can the magnificent facilities of the WMC restore the company’s fortunes?”