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 ...

Even with its enforced content change, this RSNO all-American programme had a certain completeness about it. There was the razzmatazz of hard-hitting Broadway in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances ...

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 ...

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 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 ...