Gregor Forbes (b. 1993) is a composer and pianist from Scotland. Since 2014 he has been the Artistic Director of Glasgow Experimental Music Series, which was twice nominated for 'Making It Happen' in the Scottish Awards for New Music. In 2019, Gregor was the inaugural recipient of the Scholarship and Composer-in-Residence programme of the Hanns Eisler Haus, Leipzig, which culminated in the performance of a major new work for Ensemble Avant Garde at the Gewandhaus Musica Nova series. Since 2021, Gregor has been the Musical Director of the composers' lecture-recital series 'Neues bei Grieg!' at the Grieg Begegnungsstätte, Leipzig.
More relevant than ever, the patriarchal nightmare of Verdi's Rigoletto is dark and unflinching in Scottish Opera's revival of their 2011 production, with some striking scenes and fine singing.
There are no answers, nor indeed many probing questions, in this Scottish Opera revival of Sir David McVicar’s production from 2008, but it is sumptuous and enjoyable.
Scottish Opera’s production of Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton's The Trial says less about Kafka’s vision of an absurd world and more about the absurdity of contemporary operatic conventions.
