Music Theatre Wales wins Outstanding Achievement in Opera award, beating off opera's big hitters.

Music Theatre Wales has won a prestigious Theatre Award UK for its production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera, Greek, currently on tour.

Michael McCarthy's visceral production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's precocious first opera a raunchy re-write of the Oedipus myth set in the East End received the award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, where it faced formidable competition from two of opera's big hitters Opera North and Canadian baritone Gerald Finley for his performance in Wagner's Meistersinger at Glyndebourne.

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Guild have announced the 31 May 2011 as the official release date for the new disc of Balfe songs recorded for piano and voice by Richard Bonynge and Sally Silver.

Wallace's opera "Lurline" released in June 2010 on Naxos, conducted by Richard Bonynge and starring Sally Silver in the title role, was nominated for Critics' Choice in the December issue of Gramophone. According to critic Andrew Lamb Sally Silver "thrills" as Lurline.