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 ...
The saxophone and the euphonium were invented in the same decade of the 19 th century but the amount of repertoire created for each of them as solo instruments in the 180 years since could scarcely ...
BARITONE Roderick Williams, making a swift return to Scotland after featuring at the Lammermuir Festival, was the best-known name on stage for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s St Matthew Passion, but ...
Alexander von Zemlinsky cuts something of a phantom figure within the annals of musical history. Admired by Brahms, and as first teacher of Schoenberg, he was unquestionably well-connected and ...
The RSNO ends October with Shostakovich’s massive Seventh Symphony, the wartime ‘Leningrad’, and it began the month with the same composer’s Fifth, an ambiguous expression of the composer’s more ...
The peculiar circumstances of the Covid pandemic gave a cohort of young singers signed up as Emerging Artists of Scottish Opera an advantageous profile, but not since then have those benefitting from ...