Opera Scotland

Scottish Opera launches new season

Scottish Opera has unveiled its 2018/19 Season. Highlights include a world premiere, and two new productions (one a co-production with Germany’s Theater Magdeburg).

Also on the appetising menu are two revivals, a new production of Orfeo and Euridice by Scottish Opera Young Company, and two Scottish premieres in the Opera in Concert series. Locations will include appearances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Lammermuir Festival, as well as in Paris, London and New York.

Alex Reedijk,...

Posted 11 Apr 2018 | Comments

Edinburgh International Festival Fare

This year's operatic offering at the International Festival consists of three fully staged productions and two concert performances.

There are two by Rossini - Barber of Seville (pictured) presented by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées,  and Cenerentola by the Opéra de Lyon.

In addition, John Gay's Beggar's Opera is to be performed by the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, from Paris, who have a residency at the Festival. William Christie leads the musical side of this multinational coproduction.

The...

Posted 15 Mar 2018 | Comments

Edinburgh Studio Opera celebrate fifty years

Join Edinburgh Studio Opera to celebrate their fifty years of opera as they present two masterpieces in a contrasting double bill. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas based on Virgil's tragic love affair is partnered with Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, a hilarious comic farce rooted in a story from Dante's Inferno.

The high quality student cast, 27-strong, will be performing in traverse, using the length of the stage at Assembly Roxy to create dynamic and fluid stagings of these short operas.

With a...

Posted 23 Feb 2018 | Comments

Opera Bohemia to perform Falstaff

Opera Bohemia are poised to make further progress as Scotland's young touring company, following their success in 2017 taking Bizet's Pearl Fishers round Scotland.

It was marvellous to hear that last year audience numbers reached a record high with nearly three and a half thousand people seeing their Pearl Fishers, and many venues sold out.

The new production will be Verdi’s comic opera, Falstaff, based on Shakespeare’s play, the Merry Wives of Windsor.  Performances of Falstaff will take...

Posted 21 Jan 2018 | Comments