Opera

Rigoletto opens the new Season with director Matthew Richardson (The Devil Inside 2016) and Olivier Award-…
A free, outdoor show by Scots electronic and acoustic composer Anna Meredith (see video below) and laser and…
With the autumn leaves falling we quickly gathered that Violetta had not been well but was now able to throw…
This is the 450th anniversary of the birth in Italy of Monteverdi. The world of opera was at its beginning.
This, the third of Hans Gál's four opera was given its first performance in Breslau in 1926; several…
This production of Bohemian life is centred on a flea market in Paris in the 1920s, the Roaring Twenties.
For this very special 2017 anniversary, Summerhall, Edinburgh’s acclaimed and award-winning multi-arts venue…
There was a time when the performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas was de rigeur at the end of term.
• New productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, Eugene Onegin, Greek and Pagliacci (The Clowns) • Sir David McVicar’s…
Festival Director Fergus Linehan has given us nine operas this year, more than usual. He has told us of the…
The Edinburgh International Festival will mark its 70th year by remembering the spirit of 1947 when the first…
This is a production every opera buff and every devotee of Debussy should see. Directed by Sir David McVicar…