Opera
The beautiful domed space of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church is an atmospheric and charmingly fitti
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
"There is something in the very name of St. Kilda, which excites expectation. Remote and solitary, the…
We are in Italy with an opera company rehearsing inside a villa; singers wander outside with unpredictable…
Traditional Gaelic song and contemporary music are performed against a backdrop of vintage and modern film.
It is difficult for the audience to get to grips with the plot of this Janacek opera, which has a number of…
Puccini’s seventh opera La Fanciulla, better known to most of us as The Girl of the Golden West, had a…
Chinese traditional opera and King Lear may seem to some a strange juxtaposition, yet this production…
This welcome return by Scottish Opera to the Edinburgh Festival after too-long an absence was better-than…
The art deco surrounds of the HMV Picture House, at the bottom of Lothian Road, provided the perfect backdrop…
A company that turns one of the city centre's churches into a Las Vegas casino would seem to be committing…
Purcell’s best known opera was given a radical new twist by Frankfurt Opera, who contracted three acts into…
Clean sweep as Norfolk Youth Theatre step up the musical ladder to present Benjamin Britten’s opera about a…
There are expectations of a production from China that include wonderful costumes, graceful acting and plain…
Owen Wingrave was the result of a commission by the BBC to write an opera for television. It took about five…
In the Locked Room Stylishly conducted by Michael Rafferty and with a dazzling array of orchestral colours…
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of…
Standing ovations are infrequent in Edinburgh, even at Festival time, but this tour de force concert…