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Classical
New opera productions

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts will play Mr Dafydd Pugh in Welsh National Opera’s Blaze of
Glory!. Photograph: WNO wno.org.uk

Two companies hit by devastating funding cuts deserve support for defiant, bold new
productions in 2023. A group of 1950s miners reform their male voice choir, celebrating
the land of song and triumphing over adversity in Welsh National Opera’s world
premiere of David Hackbridge Johnson and Emma Jenkins’s Blaze of Glory! (starts
Cardiff and tours Llandudno, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Birmingham,
Southampton, 23 February to 20 May). At the London Coliseum, English National
Opera stages Wagner’s The Rhinegold, part of its current Richard Jones Ring Cycle (18
February to 10 March), followed by a cult classic, Korngold’s The Dead City (25 March to
8 April). Past and present blur when a man haunted by visions of his dead wife meets
her doppelganger. SPr

Film

Greta Gerwig’s star-studded Barbie