, 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)
… you had a bigger budget and all the money that you could have, you would give Welsh National Opera more money, wouldn't you …
, Plenary
Debate on Petition P-06-1455, 'Protect the junior departments of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from closure'
… others here, I've had countless letters and communications from constituents who work in this sector. The Welsh National Opera, the royal colleges—organisations that promote Wales across the world being forced to cut their services …
, Plenary
Debate on Petition P-06-1455, 'Protect the junior departments of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from closure'
… and art are currently already under threat, as we know, in Wales, following severe cuts to the Welsh National Opera, and this further loss will have an incredibly detrimental impact on Welsh art and culture, and I support …
, Plenary
Debate on Petition P-06-1455, 'Protect the junior departments of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from closure'
… watershed moment in the regression of Welsh cultural life. This is without the devastating reduction of Welsh National Opera to a part-time outfit. Our Welsh national cultural institutions and their education programmes are at the heart …
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
… access, and in Islwyn safeguarding of loved arts organisations and venues such as Blackwood Miners' Institute, Welsh National Opera, or the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. First Minister, what can your Government do to ensure that …
, Plenary
Finance Committee Debate: Welsh Government's spending priorities for the 2025-26 budget
… have seen decades-worth of knowledge being lost overnight. This is knowledge that cannot be recouped. The Welsh National Opera has seen its funding cut by 12 per cent by the Arts Council of Wales, and 35 per …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
… look at whether or not they will close the junior department, but, equally, I know that the Welsh National Opera has also been hammered by the fact that Arts Council England has refused to allow it to perform …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… that we've just been discussing. When you look at how much our health organisations—. For instance, Welsh National Opera, they work with health and well-being. I mentioned the WNO as a global export …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… see if there's any specific funding I can access there. You'll be aware of the Welsh National Opera challenges. I've had conversations with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language, because, again, they …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… Secretaries have met with partners not just in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Welsh National Opera, but all our great cultural institutions—have met them and have discussed these issues and these challenges. But …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… and Drama, the national library and Amgueddfa Cymru. And then there's obviously the other issues around Welsh National Opera. So, I think in terms of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice's response, which …
, Plenary
Debate on Petition P-06-1437, 'Increase, don’t cut, funding for the National Library, Amgueddfa Cymru and the Royal Commission'
… figures from the Musicians' Union, who have been running a petition calling for action now to save Welsh National Opera, another national institution of world renown who are seeing a very bleak future as funding gets squeezed and …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… everything that you're doing, Cabinet Secretary. It was my constituent who is a singer with the Welsh National Opera, Angharad Morgan, who raised this with me, but I know my colleague Rhianon Passmore in Islwyn has also …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on her discussions with Welsh National Opera regarding the budgetary pressures it faces? OQ61337
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… than their competitors across the border. Not only does the Welsh Labour Party cut funding to the Welsh National Opera, but this increase in tax rates now puts one third of grass-roots music venues in Wales …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… been presented with a 10,500-signature petition in order to safeguard and protect the Welsh National Opera. I'm just going to raise that—that this is here today. It's another very salient point in terms …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government international relations: Scrutiny session with the First Minister of Wales
… the impact of the ability of those organisations to support the delivery of the strategy, such as Welsh National Opera et cetera, and that context. And perhaps, if we can write to you with some of the detail …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government international relations: Scrutiny session with the First Minister of Wales
… the future of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the junior conservatoire, and then the Welsh National Opera, they're also central to our ability to actually project or be the country that you describe …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice: Culture and Social Justice—Reaffirmation of our values
… have to admit I found the statement rather interesting because you mentioned culture, yet we have the Welsh National Opera's future literally hanging in the balance, and I can't say I'm very reassured by any …
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
… diminish if any further things are cut. One thing I'd say is that yesterday, with the Welsh National Opera protest on the steps of the Senedd, security were there managing that. You had members of the public …