Opera
Anne Trulove and Tom Rakewell are lovers but her father thinks Tom is a wastrel and finds a job for him in…
The Mikado contains perhaps the wittiest of Gilbert’s lyrics and this production was a spirited, lively and…
It is hard to believe that when one of the most famous of all operas was first performed in Paris in 1875…
Very different from Disney's film version, Opera North's Pinocchio is an extraordinarily elaborate and true…
This new production is set in the Victorian era and opens with a large and old-fashioned box camera pointing…
With the autumn leaves falling we quickly gathered that Violetta had not been well but was now able to throw…
The opera tells the story of a successful advertising executive, Harry Joy, who lived on the outskirts of a…
It was good to enjoy an opera that is seldom performed. Indeed on the night I came across only one other…
Seated in the usual critical position in front of the lighting box of Traverse One, this reviewer observed to…
The curtain rises and we see a squint map of that furthest end of Cornwall, and then a lone seagull flutters…
The curtain rose and we were within the basilica church in Rome I used to walk past on my way from the…
Sir Thomas Allen's production of The Marriage of Figaro was such a success in 2010 that it is no surprise to…
There are many versions of the comedy we know as Cinderella but all relate to the unwanted daughter who finds…
When the curtain lifted for the first time, we saw Simon Higlett’s very realistic set of the front of houses…
Matthew Richardson’s new Rigoletto for Scotish Opera begins in the Duke’s Palace where there is a party in…
Straightaway we see Orfeo and Euridice frolicking, but then Euridice is taken ill and dies.
The performers had made their dramatic entrance when the evening’s director, the impressively voiced Lloyd…
The successful team that is Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has again teamed up to produce one…
There was a time when the performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas was de rigeur at the end of term.
Annilese Miskimmon directed an extraordinarily sensitive and accurate portrayal of a family's tribulations.