Those oranges look charming at first, tended and cherished by scuttling servants, but gradually serve to encapsulate the claustrophobic, artifical world that Fehr has created for the opera, one ...

Scottish Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 Season, which features 13 opera offerings: Oedipus Rex, Albert Herring, Don Pasquale, The Makropulos Affair, The Merry Widow, Trial by Jury, A Matter of ...

Pirates, four brand-new operas, and the return of Wagner to the Scottish Opera stage for the first time in nine years mark the 50th anniversary season of Scotland's national opera company. In a ...

The Scottish Sun and Scottish Opera have teamed up to offer the chance to attend the opening night of La bohème at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal. 700 pairs of tickets will be available to readers at a cost ...

Scottish Opera presents a digital version of its hugely popular Opera Highlights, which will be released on October 25, World Opera Day, at 6pm. While the Autumn tour usually sees the company ...

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Following months of speculation, Scottish Opera has announced the appointment of Italian conductor Francesco Corti as its new music director. The hiring follows a season of commercial and critical ...

Actor Timothée Chalamet has been taken to task by Scotland's national performing companies over his comments about opera and ballet, which he claimed "no-one cares about" any more. Scottish Ballet ...

Figures from the worlds of opera and pantomime and a beloved writer are among those from the arts in Scotland who have been recognised in the New Year Honours list. Alex Reedijk, general director of ...

Scottish Opera’s award-winning Primary Schools Tour, with the newly created show, ‘Vikings! The Quest for the Dragon’s Treasure’, is now even more accessible and adaptable for all schools in Scotland ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Verdi’s work is far more profound than the program’s gloss, which seems to reach for contemporary relevance. As ...