Kommilitonen! is WNO’s Youth Opera production for 2016. It is a contemporary opera for young people about young people, by composer Peter Maxwell Davies and with a libretto by David Pountney.

The opera, which has 28 scenes, intertwines three stories of student revolution in the 20th century - the Chinese Cultural Revolution; the Civil Rights Movement in the USA; and the White Rose movement in Germany during WWII. The three stories come together at the end of the opera, locating the action between the present and the past, and evoking the tyranny of the three historic political systems that the opera explores.

Kommilitonen! will be a promenade performance to be staged at Memo Arts Centre in Barry between 28 - 30 July 2016. This is the first time WNO has worked with the Memo and we are excited to collaborate with them on this new project. - See more at: https://www.wno.org.uk/kommilitonen!#sthash.WosbE2Fw.dpuf

Audition information:

Audition dates 2015
October:
Tuesday 13 – Birmingham
Wednesday 14 – Bangor & Carmarthen
Thursday 15 – Cardiff
Friday 16 – Cardiff
Monday 19 – London

Deadline for completed application forms is: Saturday 10 October 2015.

Rehearsals and Performance Information:

Company rehearsals 2016

February
Friday 5 (6 – 10pm)
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 (10am – 6pm) company weekend

Friday 19 (6 – 10pm)
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 (10am – 6pm) music learning /production rehearsals

March
Friday 4 (6 – 10pm)
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 (10am – 6pm) music learning /production rehearsals

Friday 11 (6 – 10pm)
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 (10am – 6pm) music learning /production rehearsals

March/April
Tuesday 29 March – Sunday 3 April (10am – 6pm) Easter production block

May 
Friday 13 (6 – 10pm)
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 (10am – 6pm) production rehearsals

June
Friday 10 (6 – 10pm)
Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 (10am – 6pm) production rehearsals

July 
Final rehearsal block (WNO, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff)
Fri day 1 & Saturday 2 (10am – 6pm)
Monday 4 – Saturday 9 (10am – 6pm)
Monday 11 – Thursday 14 (10am – 6pm)

Final rehearsal block (Memo Arts Centre, Barry)
Friday 15 – Tuesday 26 (10am – 6pm)

Performances
Wednesday 27 performance 1
Thurs 28 performance 2
Friday 29 performance 3
Saturday 30 performance 4 (matinee) and performance 5
Sunday 31 performance 6 - See more at: https://www.wno.org.uk/kommilitonen!#sthash.WosbE2Fw.dpuf