The problem starts with the libretto by David Antrobus and Emma Jenkins, one of those patched-up texts that make you feel vaguely uncomfortable if you happen to know the original. The parentheses of ...

Hailed as a masterpiece of 20th Century literature by the likes of W.B. Yeats, David Jones' epic poem In Parenthesis recounts the horrors of the Battle of Somme from a Welsh perspective - and all ...

On the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and their own 70th anniversary, Welsh National Opera have commissioned a new opera based on David Jones's classic account of the Somme offensive, ...