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.
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
Ibsen’s pioneering, modernist plays of the late 19th century are set in northern Norway, insular small town…
Oper Frankfurt’s fantastical offering – supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany…
In the Locked Room Stylishly conducted by Michael Rafferty and with a dazzling array of orchestral colours…
It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
Red hot Carmen raises the temperature in George Street. The high school setting for Carmen plus just sizzles…
The art deco surrounds of the HMV Picture House, at the bottom of Lothian Road, provided the perfect backdrop…
Puccini’s seventh opera La Fanciulla, better known to most of us as The Girl of the Golden West, had a…
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…
A company that turns one of the city centre's churches into a Las Vegas casino would seem to be committing…
We are in Italy with an opera company rehearsing inside a villa; singers wander outside with unpredictable…
Standing ovations are infrequent in Edinburgh, even at Festival time, but this tour de force concert…
Chinese traditional opera and King Lear may seem to some a strange juxtaposition, yet this production…
Owen Wingrave was the result of a commission by the BBC to write an opera for television. It took about five…
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of…
There are expectations of a production from China that include wonderful costumes, graceful acting and plain…
This welcome return by Scottish Opera to the Edinburgh Festival after too-long an absence was better-than…