REVIEW: The Fiery Angel (Scottish Opera Sunday Series) – City Halls, Glasgow
Masochistic obsession, black magic, demons, mass possession, exorcism, skeletons, nuns, appearances from Faust and Mephistopheles, it's no wonder Sergei Prokofiev's...
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REVIEW: Lauder – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
It’s been a dream come true for much-loved Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall to bring Jimmy Logan’s ‘play with tunes’ back...
REVIEW: The 8th Door / Bluebeard’s Castle – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
You must admire the bold, brave, artistic choices that have characterised Scottish Opera's current season. However, whether these choices resonate...
REVIEW: Scottish Opera: The Trial – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
The nightmarish world of Franz Kafka's The Trial, a world of surveillance, authoritarian power and injustice, was a work of...
REVIEW: L’amico Fritz – The Sunday Series: Opera in Concert
Scottish Opera's music director Stuart Stratford starts this year's Sunday Series on a high note with an outstanding concert performance...
REVIEW: The Marriage of Figaro – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
What do you do with a work that is almost universally adored? Leave well alone is always the sensible answer...
REVIEW: The Elixir of Love – The Concert Hall, Motherwell
Scottish Opera's latest touring production, Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, is a wonderfully witty, beautifully staged and finely sung...
REVIEW: The Sunday Series Concerts – Mozart and Strauss with Kate Royal
English soprano Kate Royal is something of a catch for Scottish Opera's Sunday Series of concerts, and this, the last...
REVIEW: The Mikado, Scottish Opera & D’Oyly Carte – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Silly, sumptuous and satisfying, Scottish Opera and D'Oyly Carte's co-production of the perennially popular, anti-establishment satire The Mikado, is a...
REVIEW: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Woodside Hall, Glasgow
In the atmospheric surroundings of Glasgow's Woodside Hall, Psycho-like screeching strings from the barefoot orchestra clad in Edwardian garb and...
