Scottish Opera
Carmen review – a true-crime thriller with an uneasy heroine
Scottish Opera’s new production makes the most of the work’s reinstated spoken-word sections, but suffers from a lack of charisma in its star
David Lee
14, May, 2023 @2:05 PM
Il Trittico review – Scottish Opera’s vivid new staging has humour and heartbreak
David McVicar’s atmospheric production of Puccini’s triptych gains from magnificent performances by Roland Wood and, in her company debut, Sunyoung Seo
David Lee
13, Mar, 2023 @1:08 PM
Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2022
Excellence and perilous funding went hand in hand, Salome sizzled, a piano great led the way, and India and Italy became musical neighbours
Fiona Maddocks
17, Dec, 2022 @1:00 PM
Scottish Opera Ainadamar review – vibrant and deft production brings Golijov’s opera to the UK
Deborah Colker’s staging of the Argentinian composer’s tale of the poet Lorca is clever and effective, with Scottish Opera’s orchestra capturing the musical colours and the score’s collage of influences
Rowena Smith
04, Nov, 2022 @10:33 AM
Thérèse review – deliciously over-the-top drama puts the soap into opera
Scottish Opera’s semi-staged performance of Massenet’s opera about a love triangle during the French Revolution is delightful - full of passionate outbursts and high emotion
Rowena Smith
12, Sep, 2022 @7:21 PM
Candide review – Voltaire and Bernstein enter the social media era
A brilliantly reimagined and boldly immersive promenade performance, complete with flashmob choir, plays to the strengths of Leonard Bernstein’s witty operetta
Rowena Smith
14, Aug, 2022 @2:32 PM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Scottish Opera triumphs with nightmarish take on Britten
Staged as a dystopian psychodrama, this sure-footed production is played with beautifully delineated detail
Rowena Smith
03, Mar, 2022 @1:03 PM
The week in classical: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cunning Little Vixen; Bath BachFest
Enchantment, glee and fresh voices are well met in Scottish Opera’s winning new production of Britten’s opera, while Janáček’s music holds court at ENO
Fiona Maddocks
26, Feb, 2022 @12:30 PM
Pamela Helen Stephen obituary
Mezzo-soprano who brought great dramatic insight to bear in operatic roles by composers ranging from Monteverdi to Britten
Barry Millington
19, Dec, 2021 @3:24 PM
The Gondoliers review – a picture-postcard Gilbert and Sullivan from Scottish Opera
The company celebrated its return to the Theatre Royal with some good old-fashioned – if not downright antiquated – fun and frivolity
Rowena Smith
17, Oct, 2021 @12:41 PM
Sir Graham Vick obituary
Innovative opera director determined to put on groundbreaking productions in unusual settings
Barry Millington
20, Jul, 2021 @2:05 PM
Renowned opera director Graham Vick dies from Covid complications aged 67
Tributes paid to director who sought fresh classical audiences with pioneering productions and outreach programmes
Guardian music
18, Jul, 2021 @11:00 AM
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