18 June 2025 , Plenary
Open Debate: Arts and Culture—Nice to have or integral to the future of Wales?
… the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Live Music Now, Music in Hospitals and Care and the Welsh National Opera . And the independent evaluation showed that it improved recovery, reduced medication use, eased staff stress, and in the neuro …
18 June 2025 , Plenary
Open Debate: Arts and Culture—Nice to have or integral to the future of Wales?
… generation. They have to be given the funding and freedom to evolve to ensure their survival. The Welsh National Opera are doing fantastic work to ensure their productions appeal and reflect to younger people, but …
18 June 2025 , Plenary
Open Debate: Arts and Culture—Nice to have or integral to the future of Wales?
… language, and redirected towards radical initiatives that score political points but do little to enrich the nation . Welsh National Opera , once the pride of our creative exports, now faces existential threats. Our museums are quite literally falling apart …
18 June 2025 , Plenary
Open Debate: Arts and Culture—Nice to have or integral to the future of Wales?
… continue to deny there is a funding crisis, but this denial doesn't bring solutions to the Welsh National Opera , who are struggling to pay the bills. It doesn't preserve the collections in our museums. The Arts …
11 June 2025 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Anything’s Achievable with the Right Support: Tackling the Disability Employment Gap'
… report was published. The live letter to Lisa Nandy and Liz Kendall, signed by bodies including the Welsh National Opera , Theatr Clwyd and the Sherman, and many other cultural bodies cross the UK, warned that removing the support …
21 May 2025 , Plenary
Short Debate: Wales and Europe: Dismantling the barriers
… has been stated, to transport instruments and equipment. Just think what that means for our own Welsh National Opera or a BBC Wales symphony orchestra production if we do the maths. Furthermore, the rules are different in each …
26 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'A decade of cuts: Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport'
… been closed, and an individual—Michael Sheen—funding our national theatre through the medium of English; the Welsh National Opera in crisis; the junior department of the Welsh college of music and drama having disappeared; the publishing sector …
12 February 2025 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Culture shock: Culture and the new relationship with the European Union'
… our report, 'Culture shock', provides a sobering account of how this has been made manifest. For example, Welsh National Opera told us that their carnet—a type of passport for goods, that is—cost £5,000 plus the …
13 November 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership (10)
… stand on the WNO is that it’s of national significance, it’s important to have the Welsh National Opera . I want to see opera thriving here. There is that process where they can apply. I encouraged them …
13 November 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership (10)
… may just ask one question around some of our larger cultural and arts organisations, specifically the Welsh National Opera . I have been tagged on a number of social media posts by someone who’s campaigning on this—Elizabeth …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… tried to avoid the 'Give us more money' one, but I do think venerate what Welsh National Opera does—that's a really important thing. I was thinking: is there something structural that you can do about how …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… with Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Government in terms of—? You are, after all, the Welsh National Opera . We do have devolution here in Wales. We have a cultural strategy being developed. Are you looking …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… the Welsh creative industries, because those people do go between working at the WMC and the Welsh National Opera . They train the next generation of artists who then go on to work for the BBC, to make films …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… Opera North, which Chris has already mentioned, which are all fantastic companies, but this is the Welsh National Opera company. And I think that there is a bigger question here about the national confidence that comes from having …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… classical music and opera specifically in Wales, given the cuts that, obviously, have been seen to Welsh National Opera and Mid Wales Opera , the ongoing pressures in St David's Hall, and what's happened with the Royal …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… back. I'm sorry about the delay there, but we're back now with our session with Welsh National Opera . If it's okay with both of you, we'll move straight into questions …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… opera director and I am the incoming director and chief executive officer, jointly with Sarah Crabtree, of Welsh National Opera …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
… the impact of funding reductions on culture and sport, and this evidence session is with the Welsh National Opera . I will ask our witnesses to introduce themselves for the record, and I'll go first of all …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Arts Council of Wales (2)
… the health of classical music and opera in Wales, given the cuts, of course, to the Welsh National Opera and Mid Wales Opera , the current closure of St David’s Hall in Cardiff, and the closure of the …
26 September 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Arts Council of Wales (2)
… the projection what Wales wants to put over to the world. When you compare that to the Welsh National Opera , which is offering such a good value for money, they're offering so much in terms of their …