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'Will you dance, dear?' one bishop said to another is what Sir Roger Norrington thought might have happened…
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
The Orchestra's Danish Principal Guest Conductor, Thomas Søndergård, told us at the outset that he had really…
Rossini’s little known opera The Silken Ladder had just twelve performances in 1812 and was quietly dropped.
An unsurprisingly good turn-out for a wet Friday in Edinburgh when James Yorkston, along with a few familiar…
It’s the first day of September and summer is pretty much semi-officially over.
The Edinburgh Royal Choral Union is Edinburgh's oldest choir, founded in 1858. It was given Royal status in…
Gerda Stevenson has pooled her talents as playwright and poet to create a beautiful modern Scottish sea myth.
Stéphane Denève’s introductory remarks, after the customary exchange of Good Evening, helped set the scene…
Every so often a musical comes along that captures the zeitgeist – West Side Story, Hair, and A Chorus Line.
A near capacity Usher Hall audience (stalls and grand circle) enjoyed enthusiastic performances of songs sung…
Villainous, lascivious, devilish all describe Marti Pellow's interpretation of Darryl Van Horne in the…
This production of West Side Story - hailed by The Guardian as "the greatest dance musical of all time" -…
The age old fight between music for music’s sake, that benches for political standing and belief,…
San Francisco drone-rockers Wooden Shjips have spent the past ten years slowly building a reputation for…
Hairspray lifts and holds a crowded Playhouse audience in a full-bodied production that is full of bounce.
It may seem incredible that a 1930s musical showing the farcical shenanigans of the privileged few is still…
Red Note Ensemble is a Scottish-based professional music ensemble that made its debut in 2008. Based on…
Last night's opening concert at the Usher Hall of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's new season consisted of…
This was a concert of Sibelius, Mahler and Beethoven - deliberately chosen by the Orchestra's Principal Guest…