Category: News

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2025 was Daniel Williams’ swansong as Director and what a fantastic show to end with. Dan has been our Director for the last eight years but has been an integral part of the Youth Opera family for much longer than that. Dan first joined the company in 1999 for our…
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We were recently honoured with a visit from The Lord Lieutenant of Dyfed Miss Sara Edwards. She awarded us on behalf of His Majesty King Charles, The King’s Award for Voluntary Service – the highest award a voluntary group can be granted, equivalent to an MBE. We are only one of 6 groups in Wales…
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Mrs Nancy Butters celebrated her 107th birthday on the 20th March 2023 with a birthday card from The King and Queen Consort and a lovely cake and flowers. Nancy has always been a fantastic supporter of Carmarthen Youth Opera since the early days and was a former committee member. We were delighted Nancy was able…
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We are delighted to have recently been chosen from over 9,000 organisations all over the United Kingdom to be part of the Co-op’s Local Community Fund. From now until 21 October 2023, if you are a Co-op member you can choose to raise funds for us. For every £1 members spend on selected Co-op branded products…
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SHREK AUDITIONS We are pleased to announce that auditions for our 2023 Show ‘ Shrek the Musical’ will take place over the weekend of 9th to 11th September 2022 at Myrddin School, Carmarthen. On Friday evening 9th September 2022, auditions will be for Years 12, 13 and ages 16 and over up to the age…
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Yesterday Mrs Nancy Butters celebrated her 106th birthday with a birthday card from The Queen and a lovely cake and flowers. Nancy has always been a fantastic supporter of Carmarthen Youth Opera since the early days and was a former committee member. We were delighted Nancy was able to join us back in July 2019 when…
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After many hours of planning, rehearsals and preparations (and masks and LFTs) , the curtain has come down on our final performance of ‘Grease’ . We would like to say a huge thank you to all who have supported us this year – our loyal audiences, Sponsors and Friends, Advertisers, Grant Giving Bodies, Carmarthenshire Theatres,…
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It is now only one month from our opening night of ‘Grease’ at the Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen. The excitement is building and yesterday we tried on our costumes for the first time. There are four performances this year : Thursday 24th February 2022 – evening performance at 7.30 pm Friday 25th February 2022 –…
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Today is a very proud day in the history of Carmarthen and District Youth Opera. Today sees the release in cinemas and on Sky TV of ‘Save the Cinema’  – a film based on our inspirational founder the late Liz Evans’ courageous battle to save the Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen. We know that the film…
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We are delighted to announce that TK Maxx and Homesense have awarded Carmarthen Youth Opera the sum of £500 from their Community Fund Foundation. Huge thanks to TK Maxx and Homesense for their generosity and also to Charissa John for nominating us for the award. This will be invaluable to our young cast members in our production of…
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