Performances

10x10

Broadcast of UPROAR's inaugural concert from Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

BBC Radio 3, Hear and Now

Saturday 23rd February 2019 

Deniz Kustu

World Premiere of Opera by Michael Ellison with libretto by Simon Jones, choreography by Zeynep Tanbay and Video Performance and Installation by NOHlab

Hezarfen Ensemble

Sureyya Opera House, Istanbul as part of the Istanbul Festival of Music

​Saturday 11th June 2016

The Devil Inside

World Premiere of Opera by Stuart MacRae, libretto Louise Welsh

Scottish Opera

Theatre Royal Glasgow

Saturday 23rd January 2016 and on tour

Scottish Opera Website

Music Theatre Wales Website

Tapestry Opera Website
 

Make an Aria

Site Specific performance - St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff

RWCMD/Music Theatre Wales

Tuesday 7th July 2015

St Fagans Website

Greek by Mark Anthony Turnage – Asian Premiere

Music Theatre Wales/TIMF Ensemble T

Tongyeong International Music Festival, Korea

Thursday 2nd April 2015 7.30pm/ Friday 3rd April 7.30pm/ Saturday 4th April 3pm

TIMF website

Contemporary Opera Scenes

Scenes from operas by Harrison Birtwistle, George Benjamin, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Gerald Barry, Louis Andriessen, Thomas Ades and Pascal Dusapin.

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Friday 6th March 2015. 7.30pm Saturday 7th March 2015. 2.30pm.

Make an Aria

Public Masterclass with Jonathan Dove

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

26th February 2015. 7pm

The Trial

World Premiere of the opera by Philip Glass – broadcast from the Royal Opera House.

Hear and Now. BBC Radio 3

Saturday 25th October 2014. 9.45pm

Radio 3 Website

Greek

Music Theatre Wales production of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Opera - broadcast from the Royal Opera House

Opera on 3. Monday, February 17th 2014

Opera on 3 website

Michael Rafferty conducts 'Professor  Bad Trip' with UPROAR | Wales New Music Ensemble including three new works from Welsh composers Andrew Lewis, Bethan Morgan-Williams and Sarah Lianne Lewis.

Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff - 28th February 2020 then on tour to Aberystwyth, Caernarfon, Bristol and Montpellier.

Michael Rafferty awarded the Welsh Music Guild's John Edwards  Memorial Awarded 2020.

February 14th - premieres of six new works by emerging Welsh composers at Pontio in Bangor New Music Festival. 

In partnership with Ty Cerdd and Electroacoustic Wales.

UPROAR | Wales New Music Ensemble, founded by Michael Rafferty launches in spectacular style. 

Guardian Review Oct 2018

The CD recording of Philip Glass’ The Trial with Michael Rafferty conducting the Music Theatre Wales Ensemble has been released by Orange Mountain Music. Nov 2017N

MICHAEL RAFFERTY conducts the Hezarfen Ensemble in the world premiere of Michael Ellison’s Deniz Kustu at the Sureyya Opera House as part of the Istanbul Music Festival.

MICHAEL RAFFERTY AWARDED MBE IN THE NEW YEAR’S HONOURS LIST 2016

Full list in The Guardian

SCOTTISH OPERA ANOUNCES DETAILS OF STUART MACRAE’S NEW OPERA THE DEVIL INSIDE

Click for details

AUTHOR WELSH WRITES FIRST FULL SCALE SUPERNATURAL OPERA FOR SCOTTISH OPERA

Click to read the Herald Scotland article about The Devil Inside

HOW MUSIC THEATRE WALES STAGED TWO OPERAS IN TWO CONTINENTS ON THE SAME DAY

Click to read Michael Rafferty's Korea Diary in the Western Mail

Black and white Photos: Mark Johnson.

Colour Photos: Clive Barda.

Michael

Rafferty

Conductor