Sunday Series - Italian Masters 2015Scottish Opera
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The first of the the three Sunday afternoon Theatre Royal concerts in the 2015-16 season brought the tenor Ioan Hotea to Scotland for a programme of Italian opera with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera under new Music Director Stuart Stratford.
Some enticing items were in the programme, with the interval following Tonio's famous sequence of nine high Cs in La fille du régiment. Scottish plot locations are used not just for Lucia, but also for Mascagni's first opera, Guglielmo Ratcliff.
The programme originally scheduled for the announced recital by Barry Banks was:
Rossini
Overture and Asile héréditaire Guillaume Tell
Donizetti
Fra poco a me ricovero Lucia di Lammermoor
Overture and Povero Ernesto Don Pasquale
Ah mes amis La fille du régiment
Verdi
Overture La forza del destino
Parmi veder le lagrime Rigoletto
Mascagni
Intermezzo Guglielmo Ratcliff
Intermezzo and O amore, o bella luce del core L'amico Fritz
