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2015 is SCO's 10th Anniversary and to celebrate we are staging, the nowadays rarely performed opera, Faust by Charles-François Gounod. It was once one of the most famous and most performed of all operas, and contains many much-loved musical highlights including the memorable Soldiers’ Chorus, Méphistophélès’s rowdy ‘Song of the Golden Calf’, and Marguerite’s Jewel Song with its dazzling coloratura.

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WELCOME to Swansea City Opera, the City of Swansea’s own opera company. We tour high quality opera to venues throughout the UK including many theatres that would never normally bring this wonderful art form to their audiences. We strive to make our productions clear and easily accessible for everyone, and pride ourselves on the quality of our singers and orchestra. We hope you enjoy browsing our website, here you will find information about a performance near you, pre-performance talks and our outreach work.

An absolute delight!
SWANSEA City Opera's Barber of Seville is an absolute delight. If you want to give someone their first taste of opera, but find ticket prices and long journeys off putting, not to mention impenetrable plots or arty-farty reworking, then you couldn't do better than to catch Swansea City Opera.
South Devon Journal – Barber of Seville
Comic opera was superb!
APART from a couple of the more famous scenes, I had never actually seen a full length opera before this so was unsure what to expect. For my first opera it couldn't have gone better — if all operas were as well delivered as this one was, I'd invest in a pair of opera glasses today!
Swansea Evening Post – Barber of Seville
Bravura performances!
This company always delivers the goods, and when the goods is a deliciously uplifting slice of Mozart, it can be very good indeed.
South Devon Journal – Cosi fan tutte
Captivated within minutes!
I faced Swansea City Opera’s performance of Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment on an empty stomach (well, bar a bag of crisps and half a square of millionaire’s shortbread). Only someone with full liver failure could have viewed it with a more jaundiced eye - and I was captivated within minutes!
BBC Classical Music Online – Daughter of the Regiment
A triumph in every respect!
The work of Swansea City Opera cannot be praised too highly. They bring high quality opera to theatres which are too small or remote to receive even slightly larger companies, and give audiences the chance to hear opera as it should be heard, with excellent singers and musicians, and with unpretentious but satisfying direction. This was a great evening of entertainment and music, thoroughly enjoyable and to be unreservedly recommended.
Seen And Heard Opera Review - L’Elisir d’Amore