Opera
Il trovatore, along with Rigoletto and La traviata, is a must-see grand opera by Verdi. Il trovatore is based…
The successful team that is Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has again teamed up to produce one…
There are many versions of the comedy we know as Cinderella but all relate to the unwanted daughter who finds…
This is a production every opera buff and every devotee of Debussy should see. Directed by Sir David McVicar…
This is the 450th anniversary of the birth in Italy of Monteverdi. The world of opera was at its beginning.
This, the third of Hans Gál's four opera was given its first performance in Breslau in 1926; several…
With the autumn leaves falling we quickly gathered that Violetta had not been well but was now able to throw…
When the curtain lifted for the first time, we saw Simon Higlett’s very realistic set of the front of houses…
This new production is set in the Victorian era and opens with a large and old-fashioned box camera pointing…
Anne Trulove and Tom Rakewell are lovers but her father thinks Tom is a wastrel and finds a job for him in…
It was good to enjoy an opera that is seldom performed. Indeed on the night I came across only one other…
Intermezzo tells the tale of a husband mistakenly unfaithful who is accused by a bossy wife who has double…
Way back in time Portugal was at war with Spain and this created a problem for the King of Portugal. His son'…
Sir Thomas Allen's production of The Marriage of Figaro was such a success in 2010 that it is no surprise to…
It is hard to believe that when one of the most famous of all operas was first performed in Paris in 1875…
Straightaway we see Orfeo and Euridice frolicking, but then Euridice is taken ill and dies.
The performers had made their dramatic entrance when the evening’s director, the impressively voiced Lloyd…
It seemed such an appropriate performance for half term week in Edinburgh and an ideal starting off point for…
The opera tells the story of a successful advertising executive, Harry Joy, who lived on the outskirts of a…
Lovers of live performances are wonderful! They breast the wayward rain and brace the gales to…