Edinburgh Studio Opera
Listings: Mon 14 – Sun 20 March 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
Edinburgh’s theatres are swinging right back into action this week, with a full complement of productions and, notably, a trio of big amateur productions at the Church Hill, the King’s and the Roxy.
Cavalleria Rusticana
★★★★☆ effective:
Edinburgh Studio Opera has followed a path of noire inevitability into the dark heart of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, the tale of a returning soldier, a spurned lover and a vengeful secret told.
The Tumbling Lassie & Fergus of Galloway
★★★★☆ Jaunty:
Edinburgh Studio Opera renews its association with Alexander McCall Smith and Tom Cunningham with this double bill, marrying new work The Tumbling Lassie with 2013’s Fergus of Galloway.
EdFringe Musicals
Musicals Made in Edinburgh:
Edinburgh’s musical theatre companies are bringing an unprecedented 28 different productions to this year’s Fringe, with everything from full blown musicals to highlights packages of showtunes.
Dido and Aeneas and Gianni Schicchi
★★★★☆ Remarkable:
Edinburgh Studio Opera’s unique presentation of the pairing of one act operas Dido and Aeneas and Gianni Schicchi provides for some thrilling moments of operatic pleasure at the Roxy to Saturday.
ESO falls for Fellini
Studio Opera goes traverse for Puccini and Purcell:
Edinburgh Studio Opera is celebrating its fiftieth year with a double bill of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Assembly Roxy for four performances next week.
Carmen
★★★★★ Sharp as a dagger
Assembly Roxy: Tues 23 – Sat 27 February 2016
Review by Catriona Graham:
For their first production in the Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Studio Opera set Bizet’s opera of love, lust and death during the Spanish Civil War.
Persian Flute
ESO pick up the Magic Flute:
Edinburgh Studio Opera are staging a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Lauriston Halls this week, from Tuesday 24 February 2015.
Review – The Okavango Macbeth
✭✭✭✭✩ Big voices, intimate setting:
Edinburgh Studio Opera return to Alexander McCall Smith and Tom Cunningham’s studio opera with a leaner, fitter production than the one which premiered two years ago at the Queens Hall.
Review – King Arthur
Opera-buff, SNP activist and staunch supporter of the Yes campaign, Hugh Kerr, is just back from a week of hot opera action in London town. How would a student show, semi-staged in a Kirk recently used for a Royal Wedding, shape up? He had his doubts, as he told Æ:
