New Opera - Hedd Wyn: Eisteddfod Atomig - announced by Welsh National Opera

Coming in May 2027, Hedd Wyn: Eisteddfod Atomig is the new stage adaptation of the opera I wrote and recorded with Gruff Rhys in 2017. Much developed and expanded it will be a coproduction with Theatr Cymru and be directed by their Artistic Director, Steffan Donnelly.

Sung in Welsh, Hedd Wyn: Eisteddfod Atomig features a cast led by distinguished singers Rebecca Evans, Paul Carey Jones, Steffan Lloyd Owen with other similarly exciting names about to be announced. It will be conducted by the fast rising young Welsh conductor Iwan Teifion Davies making his main-house debut with WNO. It will feature the Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Gruff Rhys - Image Mark James Rough Trade Records

From the Welsh National Opera Website

Trawsfynydd, North Wales, 2117.
Two hundred years after the death of the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, a group of pilgrims returns to Trawsfynydd, now an abandoned exclusion zone following a catastrophic failure at a nearby power station, in a quest to reconnect with their Welsh heritage.
Featuring a haunting score by Stephen McNeff, a libretto by the legendary from the imagination of Gruff Rhys and directed by Steffan Donnelly, Hedd Wyn: Eisteddfod Atomig will be an opera like no other.