David Pountney explains the sense of destiny behind Welsh National Opera’s forthcoming adaptation of David Jones’ epic poem of the Great War, In Parenthesis
West Wales to Finland via London
Geraint Talfan Davies recounts the recent travels of the Welsh National Opera.
Big guns fail to silence pesky Scots
Joyce McMillan says Gordon Brown’s warnings ring hollow when his party’s referendum strategy is to sign up with the Tories
Fleeting magic of a moment in Florence
Richard Porch reflects on the power of music in cities to transport the listener to other places
Some corner of a foreign field
Tim Finch explains why he is organizing a festival of Englishness in London today
Arts in Scotland have already reached an independent state of mind
Joyce McMillan explains why artists and writers at the Edinburgh Festival are not obsessing with the referendum question
Cardiff still needs to aspire to be capital of culture
Yvette Vaughan Jones assesses what has been achieved in the four years since Cardiff mounted its ill-fated bid
Edinburgh’s mix of culture and politics works for Scotland
Geraint Talfan Davies draws lessons for Wales from the Edinburgh Festival
Opera gives Welsh voice to world stories
Welsh National Opera’s mission is to set the enjoyment of opera within an exciting and stimulating intellectual context, says David Pountney