Scottish Opera
On Edinburgh’s Stages This Week: Sun 18 November 2012
Big opera, a dance festival and a swathe of amateur companies join the Edinburgh Gang Show for a packed week on Edinburgh’s stages.
Review – The Rake’s Progress
* * * * Festival Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin A malignant skeleton leers down on the audience from the front cloth in Scottish Opera’s fine, fine production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Festival Theatre. It’s a fitting image for this tale of young Tom Rakewell who, on the point of betrothal to […]
Opera Review – Five:15 Operas made In Scotland
* * * Traverse Theatre By Thom Dibdin It was a balmy summer evening in Edinburgh for the opening of Scottish Opera’s third instalment of their project to create short new Scottish operas, but the stage of Traverse One was ice-cold. Tragedy and loss are the themes running through all five of the operas. None […]
Preview for the week: 23-29 November
It’s another busy week at Edinburgh’s theatres, where the amateur companies are taking centre stage with three productions – at St Columba’s, Adam House and Saughtonhall – while Scottish Opera continue to hold the stage at the Festival Theatre. Panto time is well and truly upon us, with the Brunton up and running, the Lyceum […]
Opera Review – The Italian Girl in Algiers
★★★★☆
Busy to the point of bursting, Scottish Opera’s vigorous co-production with the NBR New Zealand Opera of Rossini’s shining comic opera at the Festival Theatre is a captivating yet strangely disconcerting affair.
