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Two years after being suspended after low ticket sales, Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival is coming back in 2012, but this time staged in London.

Bryn Terfel

Previously staged on Grynedd's Faenol Estate, the opera star's pop/classical/opera crossover event will be part of the Southbank Centre's Festival of the World from 4-7 July. The four nights will bring Welsh and non-Welsh musical, theatrical and comedy performers to the Royal Festival Hall. It is designed as part of the run-up to the 2012 Olympics in London.

, a spokesman for Terfel said:

"We are thrilled that the Faenol Festival is returning this year and that audiences in London will get to experience some of our finest culture. We now hope that the festival will return to its natural home in north Wales in the near future."

The Southbank Centre told us:

In an attempt to re-create the informality and excitement of Bryn's Faenol Festival in North Wales, over the four days Southbank Centre will come alive with song with impromptu performances by professional and amateur musicians on mini-stages and bandstands as well as in the foyer spaces of the Royal Festival Hall. Visitors will have an opportunity to explore and enjoy Welsh culture through poetry reading events, Welsh language workshops, Welsh food market, singing workshops including a major choral project with Southbank Centre's Voicelab."

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