Welsh National Opera in Spring return

This time, Puccini’s Madam Butterfly, Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Berg’s Lulu are the attractions, pulled together under the first themed season, Free Spirits.

“Free Spirits brings together two of the greatest operas of the 20th century,” says WNO Artistic Director David Pountney, name checking Lulu and The Cunning Little Vixen.

“Both works study a free spirit who exists outside the boundaries of social morality, and therefore poses a threat to that morality.

“Inevitably, she ends up dead, as the alternative would be the collapse of society itself. What is riveting about the pairing of these pieces is that they were composed within a decade of each other by two men living less than 100 miles apart treating, in essence, the same subject but coming to radically opposite conclusions.”

To book your tickets, between £18 and £50, call 0844 871 7652.

> Marti Pellow is back at MKT this Sunday evening, touring to promote his new hot to the racks album, Hope, which hit shelves on Monday.

The album is a collection of songs that have touch and inspired him, and transfixed audiences over the world.

Songs from The Music Man, Mack & Mabel, Suset Boulevard and The King and I, to name a few.

The former Wet Wet Wet singer turned accomplished stage performer (The War of the Worlds, Chicago and Witches of Eastwick) will be live at MK Theatre.

Tickets start at £33.50 and the curtain goes up at 7.30pm.