Opera

glasgowtheatreblog February 13, 2026

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa is one of the world’s most recognisable works of art: prints. posters, mugs, magnets, and...

glasgowtheatreblog January 9, 2026

3 MAY - PAVILION THEATRE 3 MAY - PAVILION THEATRE 5 MAY - NICK MOHAMMED IS MR. SWALLOW: SHOW PONY...

glasgowtheatreblog October 3, 2025

Opera Highlights is back for Autumn ’25 and this season it is taking the workplace as its relatable inspiration: watercooler moments,...

glasgowtheatreblog June 30, 2025

Rachel Sullivan's Bertha a "shopera" (an opera staged in a shop, in this case in Glasgow's expansive Buchanan Galleries) uses...

glasgowtheatreblog March 8, 2025

In Scottish Opera's latest concert presentation, The Strauss Collection, the company takes their glorious orchestra from the depths of the...

glasgowtheatreblog February 22, 2025

A fruitful 45 year partnership between Scottish Opera and the National Opera Studio has produced many quality performances. This year,...

glasgowtheatreblog July 20, 2024

Girl, maiden, mother, crone. Women have been depressingly defined as such throughout the ages. Moving between magical realism and reality,...

glasgowtheatreblog June 16, 2024

Scottish Opera would appear to do no wrong at the moment. Coming fast on the heels of its five-star full...

glasgowtheatreblog May 9, 2024

Sir David McVicar's 2008 traditional staging of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera La Traviata is a favourite with Scottish Opera's loyal...

glasgowtheatreblog September 6, 2023

Daphne, Richard Strauss' rarely staged, one-act, bucolic opera, has been described as having "concise and sublime beauty". Seldom seen, it...