Opera
#OperaCo Debut With Don Giovanni
A virtual opera company which organises its productions through Twitter is to hold its first ever performance in Edinburgh this week.
Opinion – Love in a bookshop
If you went down to Blackwell’s Bookshop on South Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, you will have got more than a browse amongst the bookshelves, as the Edinburgh International Festival sprang their latest version of Love In A …. on the unsuspecting book-buying public.
Guerilla Opera returns to Edinburgh
It’s “go out and find a girl” time for the return of the EIF’s “Love in a…” series of guerilla operas which premiered last year with Love in a Library.
Review – the Pirates of Penzance
✭✭✭✭✩ Upping the ante:
Frothy and fun – just as any production of the Pirates of Penzance should be – this new collaboration between Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Theatre Company has a rarely heard quality to it.
Review – Maria de Buenos Aires
Nuevo Tango came to the Queen’s Hall last night, replacing the cold of a May spring night in Edinburgh with the warmth of Latin America thanks to another great performance from Mr McFall’s Chamber.
Review – La Traviata
The trills come thick and fast in the opening act of La Traviata, Verdi’s intimate take on the tale of consumptive courtesan Violetta and her doomed love for the naive Alfredo, which is at the King’s theatre to Saturday.
A kiss in the dreamhouse
Edinburgh Grand Opera stage Verdi’s La traviata – If tragic love is what you want, then it doesn’t come much more tragic than La traviata, Verdi’s opera about the courtesan Violetta and Alfredo, the young man she loves but has to give up.
Review – The Yeomen of the Guard
★★★☆☆ Needs more polish:
Soaring joy, daft patter and crushing melancholy are underpinned by a score tuned right into the events unfurling on stage in this occasionally brilliant Yeomen of the Guard.
Review – Werther
Bursting at the seams with big, pent-up emotions, director Pia Furtado’s take on Massenet’s Werther gets right to the throbbing, angst-ridden heart of his tragedy.
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:
