Opera

The beautiful domed space of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church is an atmospheric and charmingly fitti
Red hot Carmen raises the temperature in George Street. The high school setting for Carmen plus just sizzles…
Clean sweep as Norfolk Youth Theatre step up the musical ladder to present Benjamin Britten’s opera about a…
The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society present the hysterical parody of spooky melodrama, Ruddygore.
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
Scotland’s national opera company, Scottish Opera, is set to prove yet again that you are never too young to…
The Festival Theatre has announced that it will host live and encore screenings from the National Theatre…
Owen Wingrave was the result of a commission by the BBC to write an opera for television. It took about five…
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
Oper Frankfurt’s fantastical offering – supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany…
Purcell’s best known opera was given a radical new twist by Frankfurt Opera, who contracted three acts into…
In the Locked Room Stylishly conducted by Michael Rafferty and with a dazzling array of orchestral colours…
Ibsen’s pioneering, modernist plays of the late 19th century are set in northern Norway, insular small town…
It is difficult for the audience to get to grips with the plot of this Janacek opera, which has a number of…
Standing ovations are infrequent in Edinburgh, even at Festival time, but this tour de force concert…
The art deco surrounds of the HMV Picture House, at the bottom of Lothian Road, provided the perfect backdrop…
Valery Gergiev has been made the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival, it was…
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of…
There are expectations of a production from China that include wonderful costumes, graceful acting and plain…
Chinese traditional opera and King Lear may seem to some a strange juxtaposition, yet this production…