An evening of popular favourites from opera, operetta and music theatre, delivered by an international ensemble in a historic outdoor setting.
North Wales Opera Studio have devised a programme with something for everyone. It includes the best known arias and duets from La Traviata, Tosca, Madam Butterfly, Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute, Macbeth, Carmen and Il Trovatore as well as a medley of numbers from West Side Story.
Among the performers are Hungarian mezzo-soprano Eva Safrany; baritone Csaba Szöke, also from Hungary, and three Welsh singers: sprinto tenor Mark Jenkins from Bridgend and sopranos Hollie-Ann Clark from Cardiff and Zena O'May from Flintshire. They'll be joined by Charlotte Derry, another soprano from Lichfield and Rosie Braddy, a mezzo from Nottingham. Musical Director is Andrew Charity, who's worked extensively with RADA.
The performance takes place in the attractive Boys' Courtyard of the historic Workhouse. The audience are invited to bring a garden chair, a rug and, if they like, a picnic. The bar will be open. If it rains the event will transfer to the Workhouse Venue.
Tickets are available now through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk The cost is £17, or £15 for the first fifty Early Birds.

A Night Two singers from Hungary will be among those performing in ‘A Night at the Opera’ at Y Dolydd on Saturday, 16 July.
Csaba Szöke is a baritone who founded the Opera Mobile Graz in Austria’s second city and was a finalist in this year’s Boris Martinovich
International Voice Competition. Eva Safrany is a mezzo-soprano whose repertoire includes the biggest Verdi mezzo roles: she studies in Graz. And Hollie-Anne Clark is a lyrical soprano and MT singer from Cardiff who’ll be visiting Hungary this summer to play Judith in Bartok’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’, singing for the first time in Hungarian.
They’ll be joined among others by Welsh spinto tenor Mark Jenkins from Bridgend, who was a rugby player before he started on a quest to become a classical Tenor and still coaches kids’ rugby; Soprano Zena O’May from Flintshire who has sung with English National Opera and D’Oyle Carte Opera and recently performed the title role in Puccini’s opera ‘Tosca’; Rosie Braddy, a mezzo from Nottingham who’s reigniting her operatic career after bringing up a family, and soprano Charlotte Derry from Lichfield, who first performed with NWOS at Llangollen’s International Eisteddfod in 2019.
North Wales Opera Studio are returning to the Workhouse for the first time since 2017. They’ll treat us to an evening of popular favourites from opera, operetta and music theatre. The programme comprises the best known arias and duets from La Traviata, Tosca, Madam Butterfly, die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute, Macbeth, Carmen and Il Trovatore as well as a medley of numbers from West Side Story. Musical Director is Andrew Charity, a conductor, pianist and composer with a long-standing association with RADA, for whom he’s written and directed music for over 150 plays.
This will be a courtyard performance for a summer evening, starting at 7.00. The audience are invited to bring a garden chair, a rug and, if they like, a picnic. The bar will be open. If the weather lets us down the performance will transfer to the Venue.
Tickets are available now through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-night-at-the-opera-tickets-292361098917.
The cost is £17, or £15 for the first fifty Early Birds.