Opera
Review – The Sorcerer
★★★☆☆ Slight of hand:
Fun and frothy, there is little to deconstruct in Edinburgh G&S Society’s entertaining and distinctly slight production of The Sorcerer, which is at the Church Hill theatre to Saturday.
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 – Last One Out
Scottish Opera’s Last One Out is described as ‘ a haunting mix of opera and Country’. Gareth Williams’ music and Johnny McKnight’s libretto combine to produce an elusive, impressive tale of how the past continues to influence the present.
#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.
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