Greg Walker is WalesHome’s resident opera buff. Born and brought up in Caerphilly and Cardiff, Greg is Deputy Director of Higher Education Wales. He is a former associate lecturer at Cardiff University, where he is completing his doctoral thesis. An international opera goer, Greg has travelled to see and hear opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Salzburg Festival.

The Mastersinger of Caerdydd

The global cultural world had its eyes firmly pinned on Cardiff this weekend and the WNO certainly delivered the goods, says our new resident opera critic as he reviews Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg at the WMC