Welsh National Opera and the Genesis Foundation have selected Polly Graham as WNO’s first Genesis Assistant Director.  Polly will begin her two-year contract with the Company in January 2013 and will start her apprenticeship working with David Pountney on WNO’s new production of Berg’s Lulu.

The Genesis Foundation is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by London-based Spanish artist Greta Alfaro.  A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance, curated by Flora Fairbairn, presents two video works and a series of photographs in the Fish and Coal Building, a semi-derelict Grade II listed Victorian site.

The first group of young singers to make up Genesis Sixteen mark the culmination of their year-long training with a residency in Oxford’s Magdalen College from 29 July to 4 August, followed by their first professional concert with The Sixteen in Handel’s Messiah at the Barbican on 16 December.

The new £25,000 Genesis Prize ─ one of the most generous in the arts sector ─ will be the first and only such award to recognise individuals who give others the confidence and inspiration to achieve artistic excellence in their chosen arts field.