Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Welsh mezzo @jamesblackmgt @resonusclassics | Wellgunde/ Waltraute @lfotweet #Ring 2019-24 | @3choirs | @presteignefest | @RoyalOperaHouse

[Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Afonwy]

One week on since we left these skies but they always leave another imprint in my heart @JAMontheMarsh #Festival Thank you to each and every amazing artist with whom we rubbed shoulders for sharing a very special week #revitalised #invigorated #onwards #newmusic #livemusic

[James Black Mgt @Jamesblackmgt]

Rebecca Afonwy-Jones sings Richard Blackford’s Songs of Nadia Anjuman at Presteigne Festival this evening. @Afonwy @PresteigneFest

https://t.co/TFR7BGh5Ty

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

Oh, that the UK’s modern day governments would understand the importance of the #Arts and fund them appropriately - before it’s too late. #SaveWNO

[Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Afonwy]

Hojotoho!!

[James Black Mgt @Jamesblackmgt]

Toi Toi Toi (or should that be Hojotoho!) to Lee Bisset, Julian Close, Eleanor Dennis, Katie Lowe and Rebecca Afoney-Jones for the final performance of Longborough Festival Opera’s Die Walküre today. @LeeBisset @julianclose1 @Afonwy @katie1owe

https://t.co/SQmxekI5KG

[James Black Mgt @Jamesblackmgt]

Today’s artist is Rebecca Afonwy-Jones singing Sabbath Morning at Sea from Elgar’s Sea Pictures. @Afonwy

https://t.co/9g1Qdp5iDQ

[James Black Mgt @Jamesblackmgt]

Toi Toi Toi to Lee Bisset, Julian Close, Katie Lowe, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones et al as Longborough Festival Opera concludes its third Ring Cycle with Götterdämmerung today. @LeeBisset @julianclose1 @katie1owe @Afonwy

https://t.co/diBpALdwP1

[Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Afonwy]

See you in the wings, beauty! One last moment of hilarity zusammen ❤️ 🎶 ⚡️

[Mae Heydorn | Contralto @MaeHeydorn]

And that’s the end of the 3rd cycle here @lfotweet. Two Walkűres still coming up this week and last chance to see this remarkable show and experience brilliant Harry Sever in the pit. Today: last Götterdämmerung. Nooooooorn over and out !

[Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Afonwy]

Hojotoho!

[Emma Bell @MissBelleCloche]

CONGRATULATIONS @lisanandy
Currently IN THE MIDDLE OF A SHOW AND THE NEWS HIT singing Sieglinde @lfotweet
#RingCycle
2 shows remaining PLEASE COME, I INVITE YOU
we would love you to come
#LOVEOPERA
RSVP

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

@lisanandy @DCMS Many congratulations, @lisanandy. 👏🏻

I’m sure you realise that you inherit a sector in crisis, with #Opera on its knees & our great national companies being demolished as I write. Please can we speak asap to find a way to #SaveWNO? @WelshNatOpera https://t.co/w5XRtvJ7f2

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

From rugby league to Royal Opera, our cultural and sporting heritage runs through our towns, villages and cities and is one of our country’s greatest assets.

It is an unbelievable privilege to take on the role of Secretary of State @DCMS . The hard work begins today.

[Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Afonwy]

Here's to the end of the #FirstCycle @lfotweet #tonight with the finest of Rheinmaidens @Mazzawyn @KatieStevenson 🧜🏼‍♀️ 🐎 🗡 🧜🏼‍♀️ 🔥

[James Black Mgt @Jamesblackmgt]

Rebecca Afonwy-Jones sings Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung for Longborough Festival Opera, opening this afternoon. @Afonwy @lfotweet

https://t.co/ePMCBqZJTA

[Neil Fisher @nfmusic]

"Anthony Negus has lived, slept, prepared and conducted Wagner all his working life" - @RichmoMusic
encounters @lfotweet's lord of the Ring https://t.co/ln2EFIT1o5

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…@WelshGovernment right now. We don’t have time to wait for the inquiries into the funding models which must surely follow. Please @ThangamDebb & @JoStevensLabour, I beg of you - speak to @lesley4wrexham & @PrifWeinidog & convince them that WNO matters & should be saved. /End

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…too late for @WelshNatOpera? The clock is ticking & if the company is to remain full-time, an emergency injection of cash needs to be found urgently. There is enough uncertainty around both ACE & ACW’s behaviours & funding priorities to surely warrant an intervention by… 7/

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…And as for @ThangamDebb & @JoStevensLabour? Well, they certainly seem to understand more of the situation & make the right noises for the future. But I wonder if they realise that if their colleagues in @WelshGovernment continue to bury their heads in the sand it will be… 6/

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…The response from @DCMS was predictably dismissive, parroting @ace_national’s official line &showing little understanding. But as @lucyfrazermp is unlikely 2 be in post come July 4th I guess it matters little that she appears not to care about the future of #Opera in the UK. 5/

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…without emergency funding WNO will go to a part-time model, with all the consequences that were outlined in our statement & during our protest on the steps of @SeneddWales? Is that really what she & @PrifWeinidog want for #Wales? 4/

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…be the fact that #Opera amounts to less than 15% of @Arts_Wales_’s total spend, despite being by far the most expensive art form to mount, especially given the extent of @WelshNatOpera’s touring, & education & health projects. Does @lesley4wrexham not comprehend that… 3/

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

…wash her hands of @WelshNatOpera by parroting lines seemingly fed to her by @Arts_Wales_. She’s still conflating two separate funding portfolios to reach a misleading statistic of 71% when #Opera & #Music are different portfolios - with good reason. More pertinent would… 2/

[Elizabeth Atherton @ElizAthertonSop]

I’ve finally had replies from most of those I sent our public statement regarding the future of @WelshNatOpera to last month. They’re pretty much as I would have expected, with @lesley4wrexham last to reply with this truly dismal response. She appears to be content to… 1/ 🧵

[Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Afonwy]

@carolyndobbin @ConnaughtArtis1 @lfotweet @NIOpera @Akamus @delphianrecords @westgreenopera_ @IrishNatOpera ❤️ Well you are the first to build another up, so I am very happy to hold you aloft in your joy. Here's to the next era indeed 🌟 xxx