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Venue: King's Theatre, Edinburgh

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Address2 Leven Street
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH3 9LQ
United Kingdom
Google maps55° 56' 30.738" N 3° 12' 10.121" W
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A delicious bite-sized chunk of romantic opera: The Telephone

Attractive music and delicious comedy abound in Scottish Opera's short film of Gian Carlo Menotti's 1947 comic opera, made for Edinburgh International Festival.
*****
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Mazzoli’s luminous Breaking the Waves receives European premiere

Sydney Mancasola gives a towering performance in Scottish Opera's new production by Tom Morris.

****1
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Baroque meets jukebox musical: The Beggar’s Opera

A wry and topical new version of The Beggar’s Opera from Robert Carsen and Ian Burton from Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord is energetic, fun and amusing. Les Arts Florissants provide colourful Baroque accompaniment.
****1
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Gnosis Edinburgh International Fetsival

Akram Khan brings classical Indian dance performance, Gnosis, to the King’s Theatre (Edinburgh International Festival)
****1
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Akram Khan Company's iTMOi

Akram Khan Company perform iTMOI at British Dance Edition 2014, Edinburgh.
***11
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Edinburgh International Festival: Olga Neuwirth's American Lulu

In his programme note, director John Fulljames remarked that “any opera has many layers of authorship”, and that is truer of American Lulu than most.Alban Berg compiled the original libretto for Lulu (1929–34) from two plays by Frank Wedekind: Erdgreist (“Earth Spirit”, 1895) and Die Büsche der Pandora (“Pandora’s Box”, 1904). At the time of Berg”s death in 1935 the third act remained incomplete.
****1
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