Opera
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:
Opinion – Nabucco live stream
Hugh Kerr, who will admit to having been an opera fan for over 40 years, visited the Festival Theatre’s live stream of Nabucco.
Festival Theatre to live-stream opera and ballet
Live streamed performances of a ballet and three Verdi operas, from Milan, Paris and Taormina, have been announced as part of the Edinburgh Festival Theatre’s spring and summer seasons.
Live stream for Pass The Spoon
Pass The Spoon, the collaboration between David Shrigley, Red Note Ensemble and Magnetic North, is to be streamed live over the internet on Sunday night from its performance at London’s Southbank Centre.Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Review – Pass the Spoon
★★★★★ Dancin’:
Magnetic North and the Red Note Ensemble’s collaboration in David Shrigley’s “sort of opera” is a feast of fun with moments of utter genius. If you love the absurd or bizarre then see it!
Review – The Rake’s Progress
★★★★☆ Detailed
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.
Opera Review – Five:15 Operas made In Scotland
★★★☆☆ cerebral
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.
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.
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