Opera
The successful team that is Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has again teamed up to produce one…
Watching Scottish Opera’s Marriage of Figaro was a lot of fun - just as it should be.
Matthew Richardson’s new Rigoletto for Scotish Opera begins in the Duke’s Palace where there is a party in…
It was good to enjoy an opera that is seldom performed. Indeed on the night I came across only one other…
The opera tells the story of a successful advertising executive, Harry Joy, who lived on the outskirts of a…
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
Intermezzo tells the tale of a husband mistakenly unfaithful who is accused by a bossy wife who has double…
When the curtain lifted for the first time, we saw Simon Higlett’s very realistic set of the front of houses…
Il trovatore, along with Rigoletto and La traviata, is a must-see grand opera by Verdi. Il trovatore is based…
The Mikado contains perhaps the wittiest of Gilbert’s lyrics and this production was a spirited, lively and…
This, the third of Hans Gál's four opera was given its first performance in Breslau in 1926; several…
This is a production every opera buff and every devotee of Debussy should see. Directed by Sir David McVicar…
With the autumn leaves falling we quickly gathered that Violetta had not been well but was now able to throw…
This production of Bohemian life is centred on a flea market in Paris in the 1920s, the Roaring Twenties.
Annilese Miskimmon directed an extraordinarily sensitive and accurate portrayal of a family's tribulations.
The curtain rose and we were within the basilica church in Rome I used to walk past on my way from the…
Very different from Disney's film version, Opera North's Pinocchio is an extraordinarily elaborate and true…
Sir Thomas Allen's production of The Marriage of Figaro was such a success in 2010 that it is no surprise to…
It seemed such an appropriate performance for half term week in Edinburgh and an ideal starting off point for…
Anne Trulove and Tom Rakewell are lovers but her father thinks Tom is a wastrel and finds a job for him in…