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Future Inn Cardiff is a proud sponsor and the official hotel partner of the WNO
Welsh National Opera Official Hotel Partnership
Future Inn Cardiff is thrilled to announce that its successful partnership with the renowned Welsh National Opera (WNO) will be extended to 2025.
This collaboration, which has flourished over the years, is set to reach new heights, offering patrons an enhanced experience of the arts and hospitality in the heart of Cardiff.
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The Wales Millennium Centre is located just moments away, approximately a 10-minute walk, with the quickest route cutting through the Red Dragon Centre.
Future Inn Cardiff is a modern and comfortable hotel in the heart of Cardiff Bay, one of the city's most vibrant areas. The hotel is conveniently located near main access roads and public transportation, making it easy to explore the city. This well-appointed hotel offers a range of amenities, ensuring a pleasant and convenient stay. Alongside its excellent location, the hotel boasts spacious and airy bedrooms - all of which sleep up to four guests - that feature free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs, a desk and workspace, a laptop safe, a complimentary robe and slippers. Plus, home away from home services like the guest laundry room, ice buckets and wine glasses. There's also electric car charging and free parking, which are rare in such a central location.
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Booking your overnight stay couldn't be easier:
You can book online using the Promo Code you can get from the WNO team.
The exclusive bed and breakfast rate can also be booked with our Reservations Team on 02920 487111 or enquire by email reservations.cardiff@futureinns.co.uk
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Pre-theatre Dining in our Cardiff Bay Restaurant
Thomas Restaurant is a vibrant dining venue in the heart of Cardiff Bay that offers a memorable culinary experience.
Known for serving locally sourced produce, the menu showcases a delightful range of British and Welsh dishes, ensuring that diners can enjoy an authentic taste of the region.
From hearty breakfasts to leisurely lunches and indulgent dinners, it is ideal for both hotel guests and locals alike.
Additionally, the restaurant features an inviting bar area, perfect for enjoying a drink. In the summer months, take advantage of the outdoor terrace.
A large selection of drinks is also available, including popular local brands Brains beers, Penderyn whiskey and vodka, Benjamin Hall gins, and Cariad wines.
Naturally, there's a good choice of soft drinks, including refreshing fruit juices, tea, coffee, and mocktails.
Walk-ins are welcome. However, we strongly recommend making a reservation to guarantee a table.
Pre-booking afternoon tea is essential, and a deposit is required.
Contact us today to book a table for drinks in the bar or food in the restaurant:
Tel: 02920 487 111 | Email: thomas@futureinns.co.uk |
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What's on at the Welsh National Opera, and what are their touring dates? The opera has various productions throughout the year. There is plenty to see, so make sure you look at the full listings on its website.
See all upcoming shows, dates and venues:
What's on Welsh National OperaThe Marriage of Figaro
Wednesday 9 April and Saturday 12 April 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
A whirlwind of clever schemes and melodic brilliance. Love, loyalty, and mistaken identities entwine as Figaro and Susanna strive to ensure their wedding day's happiness amidst Count Almaviva's seductive pursuits and intricate social intricacies, leaving audiences guessing until the final note.
The Marriage of Figaro
Play Opera
Saturday 12 April 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
Experience a magical journey through the music of stage and screen in this interactive, family-friendly show - a wonderful introduction to the world of opera and classical music!
Guided by presenter Tom Redmond, you’ll be introduced to the orchestra, its diverse instruments, talented performers, and a selection of the most beloved pieces. Set in a relaxed atmosphere, this show will sweep you into the music and drama, inviting you to clap, sing, and dance along.
WNO Family Concerts
Dame Sarah Connolly & Tomáš Hanus with WNO Orchestra
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 March 2025
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Renowned Mezzo-Soprano Dame Sarah Connolly joins WNO Music Director Tomáš Hanus and the WNO Orchestra for an unforgettable evening of musical storytelling.
Featuring deeply emotive works by Schubert, Mahler, and Sibelius. Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’ bridges the Classical and Romantic eras, while Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen reflects personal heartbreak, contrasted by the tender Adagietto from Symphony No.5. Closing the concert is Sibelius’s uplifting Symphony No.7.
Dame Sarah Connolly
Peter Grimes
Saturday 5 April, Tuesday 8 April, and Friday 11 April 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
Dive into the turbulent seas of Britten's iconic opera, where isolation and prejudice envelop a fisherman haunted by rumours, suspicion, and inner demons while unravelling the mysteries of his apprentice's disappearance. Set against the backdrop of a coastal village, tragedy unfolds against the powerful waves.
PETER GRIMES
Panig! Attack!!
Saturday 26 April 2025
New Theatre Cardiff
Celebrating 20 Years of WNO Youth Opera, this brand-new bilingual commission brings a fresh and dynamic story to the stage. Composed by WNO Youth Opera Music Director Dan Perkin with a witty and quirky libretto by Bethan Marlow, the production follows two very different gangs with eccentric worldviews as they challenge each other to think differently in the face of a global emergency.
Panig Attack
Summertime Soiree
Saturday 5 July 2025
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Internationally renowned soprano Rebecca Evans joins the WNO Orchestra, under the baton of Tomáš Hanus, for a delightful summer concert filled with musical masterpieces.
With a rousing overture to Weber’s Der Freischütz, Mozart’s Ah, lo previdi, a powerful aria inspired by the myth of Andromeda. Shostakovich’s deeply expressive Chamber Symphony in C Minor, arranged from his String Quartet No. 8, leads into the concert’s grand finale - Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony, a cornerstone of classical music.
Summertime Soiree
WNO Associate Artists Recital
Sunday 6 July 2025
Tabernacl, Cardiff
The Welsh National Opera Associate Artists programme nurtures the next generation of performers, offering professional mentoring and stage opportunities that often launch international careers. Marking the culmination of their year-long traineeship, sopranos Eiry Price and Erin Rossington, alongside bass William Stevens, present a celebratory and intimate recital at Tabernacl, Cardiff. Accompanied by renowned pianist James Baillieu.
Associates Showcase
Tosca
Sunday 14 September, Thursday 18 September, Wednesday 24 September and Saturday 27 September 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
Set in a city ruled by tyranny, Puccini’s Tosca is a gripping operatic thriller where passion, power, and betrayal collide.
Floria Tosca, a celebrated prima donna, is ensnared in a dangerous web of lies as her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, shelters a political fugitive sought by the ruthless Chief of Police, Scarpia. With Scarpia determined to capture both the fugitive and Tosca herself, she is forced to make an impossible choice between love and survival.
Tosca Puccini
Candide
Wednesday 17 September, Friday 19 September and Sunday 21 September 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is a thrilling, high-energy adventure where 18th-century France collides with 20th-century post-war America. Buckle up for a wild ride through a fantastical world of castles, earthquakes, and Amazonian jungles, as chaos unfolds at every turn.
Blending Broadway brilliance, operetta charm, and Voltaire’s sharp satire, Bernstein’s dazzling score meets the razor-sharp wit of Dorothy Parker in this fast-paced, genre-defying spectacle.
Candide Bernstein
A Night At the Opera
Friday 26 September 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
Step into a world of passion, drama, and unforgettable melodies with WNO Chorus and Orchestra for A Night at the Opera. This spectacular concert showcases some of the most loved and iconic works from the world’s greatest composers, including the stirring Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana, the heartbreakingly beautiful Un bel dì from Madam Butterfly, and the spellbinding Witches’ Chorus from Macbeth.
Night at the Opera
Blaze of Glory
Wednesday 1 April, Tuesday 14 April and Friday 17 April 2025
Wales Millennium Centre
Get ready for a toe-tapping, heart-warming adventure in Blaze of Glory!
An uplifting tale set in a 1950s Welsh Valleys community. After a mining disaster, a group of Welsh miners reforms their Male Voice Choir to lift spirits and raise the roof! Led by their heroic Chorus Master and supported by strong-willed women, they embark on a musical journey, kidnapping a yodeller, joining a trans-Atlantic link-up with Paul Robeson, and blazing a trail to the Eisteddfodau.
Blaze of Glory
The Flying Dutchman
Thursday 16 April and Sunday 19 April 2026
Wales Millennium Centre
A ghostly ship roams the endless sea, and its cursed captain doomed to sail forever - until true love sets him free.
Captivated by his legend, Senta becomes his only hope for salvation. Her longing for escape entwines their fates in ways neither could foresee. This gripping reimagining of The Flying Dutchman explores loneliness, longing, and the fragile hope of connection. Inspired by the Welsh coast, the sea is both a compulsion and a prison. From the thunderous overture to haunting arias, Wagner’s score surges like the ocean itself, pulling you into its spell.
The Flying Dutchman
Play Opera LIVE
Saturday 18 April 2026
Wales Millennium Centre
Sail the high seas with our interactive family show, where Captain Tom Redmond, stranded on a desert island, is joined by his trusty crew of WNO Orchestra and singers. Together, they’ll guide you through the orchestra’s many instruments, taking you on a journey filled with melodies, swashbuckling music, and beloved tunes from stage and screen.
Shipwrecked
Who are the Welsh National Opera?
In 1943, the Welsh National Opera was founded by a group of people from across South Wales, including miners, teachers and doctors. They wanted to forge an opera company befitting Wales’ rich reputation as the ‘land of song’. The energy which drives the Company today is rooted in its formation in the 1940s.
It has been described by The New York Times as "one of the finest operatic ensembles in Europe". The orchestra tours the world, giving more than 120 music and arts performances annually, with a repertoire of eight operas each year, to a combined audience of more than 150,000 people. Here in Cardiff, performances are predominately at the Wales Millennium Centre building, as well as St David's Hall and The New Theatre.
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Tickets for WNO opera performances in Cardiff can be booked by contacting Wales Millennium Centre’s ticket office on 029 2063 6464 or visiting wmc.org.uk
For more information on WNO’s upcoming events visit wno.org.uk
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Future Inn Cardiff and the Welsh National Opera extend partnership
In a harmonious blend of comfortable accommodation and world-class cultural experiences, Future Inn Cardiff and the Welsh National Opera (WNO) have recently announced the extension of their partnership, solidifying Cardiff's reputation as a hub for arts and entertainment. This exciting collaboration opens up a world of possibilities for both locals and visitors seeking an immersive journey into the realm of opera and theatre.
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