How does Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Edward Jowle feel about taking on the role of Figaro for the first time? ‘It’s fun to ...

Scottish Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 Season, which features 13 opera offerings: Oedipus Rex, Albert Herring, Don Pasquale, The Makropulos Affair, The Merry Widow, Trial by Jury, A Matter of ...

Those oranges look charming at first, tended and cherished by scuttling servants, but gradually serve to encapsulate the claustrophobic, artifical world that Fehr has created for the opera, one ...

The beginning of Act 1 sees the airport in the very early hours of the morning, capturing the dreamy, ethereal stillness of a world on the brink of awakening. Soprano Jennifer France, as the God-like ...

Scottish Opera’s much-loved pop-up opera performances of A Little Bit of The Elixir of Love, A Little Bit of Rigoletto, and children’s opera Be a Sport, Spike! will be heading for Fochabers in June as ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created more than 30,000 artworks during an extraordinary nine-decade career. One image in particular from two centuries ago - the picture The Great Wave off ...

*28-year-old Chicago janitor Keanon Kyles has scored the lead role in the Scottish stage production of Puccini’s opera La Bohème. He is set to perform for nine days at the Edinburgh International ...

It can scarcely have been planned, but on the day that the Edinburgh International Festival revealed its 2026 programme, Scottish Opera supplied the capital with an event usually only available during ...

There’s a moose loose in the opera hoose as Scottish Opera unleashes Josefine, its award-winning animation based on a short ...

Alex Reedijk of Scottish Opera spoke out to MSPs on Holyrood’s Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

There will also be free school performances in and North Lanarkshire.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Verdi’s work is far more profound than the program’s gloss, which seems to reach for contemporary relevance. As ...