Scottish Opera has produced a magnificent operatic experience will be entertaining not only for opera lovers, but also young audiences and those looking to expand their theatrical horizons.
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Category: Opera
Aida – Usher Hall
Aida is famously a grandiose four-act opera, dramatically recounting a tragic story of forbidden love amidst the conflict-ridden backdrop of Ancient Egypt. Opera North have turned the tables, drawing out […]
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Kátya Kabanová – Festival Theatre
The story of a young woman in a miserable marriage who pursues a doomed romance with another man, this new adaptation of Leoš Janáček’s Kátya Kabanová is a gorgeously-designed piece of theatre.
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Scottish Opera’s ‘Opera in Concert’ – King’s Theatre
For those of you who still believe the stereotype that opera is full of women singing at glass-shattering range in Italian for hours on end, I would like to dispel […]
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Scottish Opera’s Anthropocene – King’s Theatre
Scottish Opera’s latest work, Anthropocene, is a collaboration between Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh. Its world premiere last Thursday unveiled a thrilling, unusual piece about the ways in which conflicting […]
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Rigoletto – Festival Theatre
Despite its status as Guiseppe Verdi’s crowning glory, Scottish Opera’s Rigoletto has little to offer beyond the strength of its singers’ voices. At best, it is a beautiful rendition of the […]
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