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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
… was pleased to hear the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice earlier this afternoon mentioning the Welsh National Opera and how important that is as an organisation in promoting Wales internationally. Well, we also have national collections …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… heard today in detail from colleagues around the Chamber the importance that they feel the Welsh National Opera has for our life here in Wales. And what I think comes across really, really clearly as well is that …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… previous question time. I fully support the principles that they were asking you about as to the Welsh National Opera. It was magnificent yesterday, and one of the chorus of the WNO, Angharad Morgan, is a resident …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… has the Cabinet Secretary had with the Arts Council of Wales regarding the budgetary pressures faced by Welsh National Opera? OQ61168
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… the border. I want to say that, as well as, of course, as you've mentioned, the Welsh National Opera being world-renowned far and wide across our globe, they also do an awful lot of work within …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… steps? I don't think so. It was truly incredible. I fully appreciate the concerns around the Welsh National Opera. I met with them yesterday to discuss what they’re doing to mitigate the impact of the funding …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… just wanted to ask you what recent discussions you have had with the UK Government regarding the Welsh National Opera. Can you today ease the current fears and assure us that you'll do everything that you can …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… opinion as well, as a Labour backbencher, with support. Again, as you said, it's world-renowned, Welsh National Opera, for its excellence, performance and outreach, and I hope that a way forward can be found for the …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… becoming more apparent just how bare the bones will be of what is left without drastic intervention. Welsh National Opera, who sang so beautifully outside the Senedd this afternoon, could soon be without a permanent chorus or orchestra …
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
… use of absolutely everything that we have to help support them. But you will have seen the Welsh National Opera issues, you saw the national museum. The first week I was in post—everywhere I go, there seem …
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Statement by the First Minister: Senedd at 25
… have written—well, more broadly, the arts, not just music—expressing concern about the future of the Welsh National Opera, for example. I should say that I like opera—I enjoy seeing it, I listen to it when …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… statement to be made to this place regarding the critical position that Wales's largest arts employer, Welsh National Opera, one of its finest exports, finds itself in after the withdrawal of national funding and the overarching plan …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… ask for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice on the future of Welsh National Opera. This follows the publication of a letter written by the singer Elizabeth Atherton, and signed by over …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
… sector. I have also agreed to meet with Yvette Vaughan Jones, who is the chair of the Welsh National Opera, in the coming months, and I would be very happy to meet with Christopher Barron too. As you …
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (4)
Good morning, everybody. Bore da. I'm Stephanie Bradley. I'm the executive director for Welsh National Opera …
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with trade unions (3)
… second question is, then, the implementation of it, where, especially, when you look at organisations like the Welsh National Opera, in their evidence—or NoFit State—they said it's taking weeks to complete stuff, even if you …
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with trade unions (3)
… going to say that I think those figures are a lot harder to establish. I saw that Welsh National Opera in particular had some evidence on that, about the difficulty in getting artists to come and work with …
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Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
… your packs from artists such as Jones the Dance, NoFit State, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Welsh National Opera—companies and individuals who have really been really impacted, now, by the need to know how …
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Holocaust Memorial Day
… vibrant group of musicians called Klezmer-ish, which includes Thomas Verity, the principal clarinet in the Welsh National Opera. They performed a mixture of klezmer, Sephardic, Yiddish and tango music, a wonderful celebration of both what was lost …
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90-second Statements
… you'd expect in a great choral tradition, and their talent has been recognised by the Welsh National Opera when they took park in the operetta Blaze of Glory in Venue Cymru. They've also been recognised internationally …