Welsh National Opera perform all their repertoire here at Birmingham Hippodrome.  We are very proud to be the company's Midlands base and welcome them three times a year in the spring, summer and autumn. Visit the company's website at www.wno.org.uk for more detailed information, excerpts of forthcoming operas and the company's latest news.

WNO are Europe's busiest touring opera company and the largest provider of touring opera in the UK serving a catchment area of over 12 million people in some of the most densely populated urban areas in Britain. In Autumn 2004, WNO moved into its first ever home theatre in the new £100m Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) in Cardiff Bay. The move allows the company a firmer base from which to tour throughout the UK and internationally. With the WMC as its rehearsal and administrative base, along with a significant proportion of its technical production work, WNO is now at the heart of one of the most exciting arts buildings to have been created in Europe in decades.

WNO tours extensively throughout Wales, the UK and internationally, presenting over 120 main scale opera performances annually, performing to over 150,000 people in Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Llandudno, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Plymouth, Southampton and Swansea. Once every two years, the Company presents a major season of opera in London and has for the last three years enjoyed successful residencies at The Grand Opera House.