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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)

Well, Welsh National Opera is a really interesting and well-publicised situation. I think I have to be quite sensitive in my comments in this committee, because I don't want to do anything that could undermine the … management and the quite intricate negotiations with the unions. I have had constant discussions with the Welsh National Opera and with Arts Council England. We did, actually, ACE and ourselves as ACW, assist the Welsh National Opera …

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4 March 2026, Plenary

Short Debate: How can Wales protect, enhance, and enshrine our world-leading cultural organisations for the enrichment of the people of Wales and beyond?

… music service's innovative leadership and collaborative approach with National Youth Arts Wales, and alongside providers like Welsh National Opera, has marched through the schools of Wales, establishing first-experience programmes, whole-class initiatives, the roll-out … and creative landscapes of Wales and our economy. And then the jewel in the performance crown, the Welsh National Opera, has also welcomed hugely a massive Welsh Government injection of funding, and this was a direct result …

22 May 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

… Llywydd. For those who witnessed the wonderful spectacle on the steps of the Senedd yesterday by the Welsh National Opera, the orchestra and the chorus, performing the Easter Hymn, conducted by Maestro Carlo Rizzi, I think … many Members across this Chamber, have been relaying their concern and outrage about the cuts to the Welsh National Opera. The crisis, of course, threatens the future of our flagship arts organisation and the only full-time opera …

14 May 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

… would like to request a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice, please. Welsh National Opera is currently engulfed in a crisis that threatens its future as our flagship arts organisation and only full-time … opera company here in Wales. Welsh National Opera is the jewel in Wales's crown. It is the largest arts employer, created in the 1940s by a group of doctors, miners and teachers who wished to build …

8 October 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

… demonstrated fully the sparkling quality and excellence of our publicly funded organisations—BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, National Music Service for Wales, Creative Wales, Anthem—and it also … recognised the amazing economic contribution of the music stakeholders present to Wales. Today in 2024, the Welsh National Opera is defunded, withering and facing strike action—and it's not an organisation known for that militancy—and staring …