PROTEST #SaveOurWNO 🎶 Tuesday, 21st May at 1pm Senedd, Cardiff Bay An invitation from the #Orchestra & #Chorus of Welsh National Opera to join in song next week. Please share &let’s show the Welsh Government & GOV.UK the strength of feeling against dismantling #Wales’s opera company.

Loads of rarely heard gems in this fascinating song programme, curated by @NigeFosterPiano about the #ShippingForecast The Shipping Forecast ⚓️ with superb Jess Dandy and Simon Butteriss Please join us - 21 June

Catch Gareth Brynmor John performing Brahms and Vaughan Williams with Summertown Choral Society tonight! 🎟️summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/brahms…

Students (present and past) and their supporters protested the planned closure of their junior department at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a play-in this afternoon.

A sneak peak. Mascagni’s Easter Hymn from the first opera Welsh National Opera mounted in 1946. But their future hangs in the balance. Come and join us today at 1pm Welsh Parliament to ask our politicians to #SaveWNO. Eluned Morgan Lesley Griffiths @lucyfrazermp @ThangamMP Keir Starmer

Thanks to everyone who came out to support Welsh National Opera at the Senedd today. Your support is valued by everyone in the organisation. It was an emotional affair #SaveOurWNO #WNOProud Musicians' Union

Today Equity members in the Welsh National Opera called on politicians to fund the arts and save the WNO. They were joined on the steps of Welsh Parliament by Musicians' Union and @bectufellow. When we sing together our voice is loud. #SaveOurWNO #AchubOCC

What a day and what a turnout Welsh Parliament. Thanks to those who came to support, & what a poignant event it was as we fight to #SaveWNO. Please, listen to us Welsh Government & GOV.UK. Do you want to lose this? Lesley Griffiths Eluned Morgan @lucyfrazermp Keir Starmer @ThangamMP

amazing footage of WNO Orchestra and Chorus performing outside the Senedd yesterday.

Music is universal: visa barriers have no place in the fluidity of song and symphony!

#SaveOurWNO #AchubOCC 20th June #WMC #Cardiff

Backstage at a concert in 2015 at my children’s school -Trinity in Nottingham. Now plans to drastically cut music and creative arts from this wonderful state school. Protest strike on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Where will the future of music come from?

1st night #Rigoletto Welsh National Opera last night & industrial action by #Chorus & #Orchestra. That Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales & Arts Council England are bringing the company to its knees is simply criminal, as are proposals to make the musicians part-time. 1/ 🧵

…That #Wales has an international opera company capable of mounting touring productions on this scale & of this calibre is something this small nation should be very proud of. Soraya Mafi’s performance as Gilda was simply world-class - career defining. Her pianissimi… 2/

…and messa di voce were out of this world. Effortless, flawless, exquisite. And hundreds of us were privileged to witness her performance. Fantastic sounds emanated from the pit, dramatic & lustrous, & the chorus threw themselves into the production with abandon & energy…3/

…To think that all this might be lost without Welsh Government & Department for Culture, Media and Sport taking a lead now and ensuring the company’s survival is nothing short of a tragedy. Wales stands to lose so much. We can’t let that happen. 4/#SaveWNO

…Please sign this letter to the Chair of the Board of Welsh National Opera to show you oppose the job cuts. And share it far and wide… #SaveOurWNO 5/ equity.eaction.org.uk/writetoWNOboard

…And please sign this petition calling on Welsh Government GOV.UK Arts Council England Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales & management of #WNO to protect the company. A sustainable solution must be found before it’s too late. #SaveWNO #WNOProud /End 🧵 megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot…

On Good Friday evening, we’re live from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, Cambridge, where the BBC Concert Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus are joined by Sophie Bevan, Gareth Brynmor John and conductor Daniel Hyde to perform A German Requiem, by Brahms.

Why festivals matter - my piece for The Yorkshire Post on how classical music can thrive when it isn’t just something to listen to, but something to be part of.