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McVicar’s magic only improves with age: Scottish Opera’s La traviata returns

By David Smythe, 08 May 2024

Scottish Opera’s stylish revival is very finely sung with Hye-Youn Lee as Violetta, Ji-Min Park as Alfredo and Philip Rhodes as Germont.

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Glasgow

08 May 2024

McVicar’s magic only improves with age: Scottish Opera’s La traviata

By David Smythe

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Edinburgh

White roses haunt Scottish Opera’s enthralling Daphne

By David Smythe, 10 December 2023

A strong cast led by Hye-Youn Lee, Shengzhi Ren and Brad Cooper head a magnificent semi-staged Daphne, conducted by Stuart Stratford.

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Edinburgh

10 Dec 2023

White roses haunt Scottish Opera’s enthralling Daphne

By David Smythe

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Glasgow

Fulljames' police thriller Carmen closes Scottish Opera season

By David Smythe, 16 May 2023

Fine singing from Justina Gringytė, Alok Kumar and Hye-Youn Lee lead a strong supporting cast, with Dane Lam conducting the Scottish Opera Orchestra and Chorus on top form.

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Glasgow

16 May 2023

Fulljames' police thriller Carmen closes Scottish Opera season

By David Smythe

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Glasgow

Sir Thomas Allen directs a delightful Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera

By David Smythe, 21 May 2022

Set in the sinister backstreets of Venice, this production from 2013 boasts strong singing all around and brisk, bright conducting by Stuart Stratford.

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Glasgow

21 May 2022

Sir Thomas Allen directs a delightful Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera

By David Smythe

West Horsley

Consumption or Covid? La bohème at Grange Park Opera

By Dominic Lowe, 12 June 2021

Grange Park Opera's revival of its 2015 production of Puccini's La bohème hits some high notes with a very contemporary feel and some excellent singing from its leading ladies.

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West Horsley

12 Jun 2021

Consumption or Covid? La bohème at Grange Park Opera

By Dominic Lowe

Glasgow

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

By David Smythe, 22 February 2020

Scottish Opera’s Nixon in China in a stylish, living history production from John Fulljames, with strong performances across the board, Joana Carneiro stoking the fires in the pit.

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Glasgow

22 Feb 2020

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

By David Smythe

Glasgow

Scottish Opera’s detailed La bohème bursts with joie de vivre

By David Smythe, 20 May 2017

Renaud Doucet and André Barbe’s La bohème for Scottish Opera set in the jazz-age is packed with Parisian life.

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Glasgow

20 May 2017

Bohème bursts with joie de vivre

By David Smythe

Belfast

Hedonism and downfall in Oliver Mears' farewell production at Northern Ireland Opera

By Judith Wiemers, 18 November 2016

Oliver Mears' impressively-cast farewell production in Belfast combines gripping drama and exuberant fun in a symbol-packed reading of Don Giovanni.

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Belfast

18 Nov 2016

Hedonism and downfall: Don Giovanni in Belfast

By Judith Wiemers

Gloucester

Mahler 8: Three Choirs Festival goes out in a flawed blaze of glory

By Simon Cummings, 30 July 2016

Adrian Partington directs a well-managed but ultimately disjointed performance of Mahler’s most idealistically challenging symphony.

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Gloucester

30 Jul 2016

Three Choirs Festival goes out in a flawed blaze of glory

By Simon Cummings

Leeds

La traviata at the Grand Theatre, Leeds

By Richard Wilcocks, 20 September 2014

Opera North's La traviata at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, makes an excellent start to Opera North's new season.

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Leeds

20 Sep 2014

La traviata at the Grand Theatre, Leeds

By Richard Wilcocks

Edinburgh

A Butterfly fit for the Commonweath Games

By David Smythe, 08 May 2014

Scottish Opera revives Sir David McVicar's Madama Butterfly. It still looks wonderful. The music, players and singers tell the harrowing story magnificently.

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Edinburgh

08 May 2014

A Butterfly fit for the Commonweath Games

By David Smythe

Gloucester

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha at the Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester

By Andrew H. King, 01 August 2013

Over the centuries, the Three Choirs Festival has developed a commendable trait in presenting the very best in English choral music; in more recent years the Festival has been committed to resurrecting once popular works that have been considered worthy of reassessment and, following on from last year’s performance of George Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims, this year the lot fell to Samuel Coleridge-T

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Gloucester

01 Aug 2013

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha at the Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester

By Andrew H. King

Alresford

Sixteen nuns executed near Winchester: Dialogues des Carmélites at Grange Park

By Paul Kilbey, 22 June 2013

When you think chic, black-tie country house opera, you probably don’t also think sixteen barefoot nuns being executed. Grange Park Opera’s fusion of these two contrasting ideas, however, has a lot going for it: their production of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites combines its minimal but effective staging with some impressive singing.

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Alresford

22 Jun 2013

Sixteen nuns executed near Winchester: Dialogues des Carmélites at Grange Park

By Paul Kilbey

London

Puccini's La Rondine: romantic opera without tears

By David Karlin, 05 July 2011

In his wonderful BBC series on Italian opera, Antonio Pappano declared that "Puccini does love like no other composer," a phrase I've also heard from others.

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London

05 Jul 2011

Puccini's La Rondine: romantic opera without tears

By David Karlin