The WNO Orchestra returns with a tour of Wales this New Year with their now well-established popular Viennese concert series.
For 2019, the largest tour yet of six concerts in Swansea, Newtown, Bangor, Cardiff, St David’s and Newport will feature the spectacular music of Mozart and Johan Strauss II in a programme of timeless waltzes and polkas, transporting audiences to the Austrian capital and city of music.
WNO Leader and Concertmaster David Adams will direct the musicians and audience through a concert that includes some of the greatest waltzes ever known, including Strauss’s instantly recognizable Blue Danube, as well as the Acceleration and Sphärenklänge Waltzes. David will also feature as soloist in the virtuosic works for violin by Fritz Kreisler.
For the first time, WNO presents this series with the extra dimension of song with recently appointed WNO Associate Artist, soprano Harriet Eyley, will also be joining the Orchestra to sing four beautiful songs; Mozart’s Bester Jüngling, Lehár’s Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss and Vilja Lied, as well as the Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus.
The evening will culminate with the stirring and rousing Radetsky March, designed to start the New Year with a bang!
Tickets can be booked from each venue (see details below), for more information visit www.wno.org.uk/vienna
Ends
Friday
04 January, 7.30pm The Great Hall,
Swansea University
Sunday
06 January, 4pm The Hafren,
Newtown
Friday
11 January, 7:30pm Pontio, Bangor
Tuesday
15 January 7:30pm RWCMD, Cardiff
Friday
18 January 7:30pm St David’s
Cathedral, St David’s
Sunday
20 January 4pm The Riverfront,
Newport
Director and Concertmaster David Adams
Soprano Harriet Eyley (WNO Associate Artist)
Weber: Oberon Overture
Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, K.426: Bester Jüngling
Kreisler: Leibesfreud
Kreisler: Leibeslied
Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin
Lehár: Guiditta: Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß
Interval
Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Entr'acte from Act III
Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus: Laughing Song
Johann Strauss II: Éljen a Magyar Op.332
Johann Strauss II: Acceleration Waltz, Op.234
Johann Strauss II: Perpetuum Mobile, Op.257
Joseph Strauss: Sphärenklänge Waltz, Op.235
Franz Lehár: The Merry Widow: Vilja
Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube, Op.314
Johann Strauss I: Radetsky March, Op.228
- Tickets for the concert at The Great Hall, Swansea, which are available from £16-21 can be booked at https://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/en/great-hall-music or by contacting the Box Office on 01792604900
- Tickets for the concert at The Hafren, Newtown, which are available from £16 with concessions from £14.50 can be booked at www.thehafren.co.uk or by contacting the Box Office on 01686 614555
- Tickets for the concert at Pontio, Bangor, which are available from £16-17 with concessions from £5 can be booked at https://tickets.pontio.co.uk/Online/ or by contacting the Box Office on 01248 382828
- Tickets for the concert at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, which are available from £8.75 - £17.50 can be booked at www.rwcmd.ac.uk or by contacting the Box Office on 029 2039 1391.
- Tickets for the concert at St David’s Cathedral which are available from £5-20 can be booked at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/fishguardmusicfestival
- Tickets for the concert at The Riverfront, Newport, which are available from £15-18 can be booked at https://tickets.newportlive.co.uk or by contacting the Box Office on 01633 656757.
Notes to Editors
- Welsh National Opera is the national opera company for Wales. WNO is funded by the Arts Councils of Wales and England to provide large scale opera across Wales and to major cities in the English regions.
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