City Halls, Glasgow Although there have been some notable exceptions – particularly the commitment which Opera North has made to performing his stage work – composer Kurt Weill is still not taken ...

Theatre Royal, Glasgow Where Puccini envisioned “mythical ancient times” in imperialist Peking as the setting for his final opera Turandot, Sir David McVicar’s new production for Scottish Opera of ...

After a thinner programme last year, the Edinburgh International Festival boasts a return to full strength on the road to its 80 th anniversary celebrations next year, writes KEITH BRUCE. Orchestral ...

Maybe it was too much to ask of the Scottish weather that the scorcher we’d enjoyed throughout June remain firmly in place for the 2023 East Neuk Festival. In the event, the close of the month, ...

Despite the last-minute change of conductor and soloist, it was heartening to witness a decent-sized audience at the City Halls, the first in a long time for the BBC SSO, and the sense of occasion and ...

With a concert of Christmas music next month before its annual Messiah in the Usher Hall, the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union is a busy choir over the coming weeks. The headline work in this concert was ...

ENCORES from the catalogues of jazz piano masters, often in his own transcriptions, have long been a feature of the practice of Linlithgow’s international classical piano star, Steven Osborne. In this ...

She has brought much more to the role of Festival director, including surprises, but this was surely a concert that the panel who appointed Nicola Benedetti to that role hoped she would make happen.

The multifaceted 2023 edition of the Lammermuir Festival – very possibly the most artistically successful in its history, making Creative Scotland’s absence as a supporter all the more absurd – ...

COME August, the Edinburgh International Festival will see the new collaboration by Owain Park’s precision vocal group Gesualdo Six and American director Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works, Death of ...

The first noise of Friday night’s performance of Beethoven’s Fifth by the RSNO and Elim Chan was not those famous four notes, but the stomp of the diminutive Principal Guest Conductor’s boot on the ...

All credit to British composer Arthur Keegan, not least for accepting an Olympian challenge to conceive a partner piece to Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The latter, as iconic for its ...