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Scottish Opera: Orlando - Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Wed 16 Feb

Scottish Opera: Orlando - Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Wed 16 Feb

Tim Mead, Sally Silver and Claire Booth star in Harry Fehr's WWII adaptation of Handel's opera

(4 stars)3 Mar 2011

In setting Handel’s Orlando in a 1940s London hospital, young director Harry Fehr has been completely ingenious. Taken from Orlando Furioso, the Italian Renaissance epic which inspired three Handel operas, the tale is of Orlando, the great soldier of…

Admeto, re di Tessaglia

Admeto, re di Tessaglia

Exit, pursued by a butoh sheep

(3 stars)11 Sep 2009

Opera is a medium well placed to embrace the ridiculous, and sometimes to render it sublime. Strained voices, high drama, grand sets, expensive costumes and expensive tickets: they all have their place, and it can be a fine line between spectacular and…

Ludus Baroque

Ludus Baroque

Indulging in Alexander’s Feast

3 Aug 2009

His fame these days may be mainly due to his commanding role as conductor of The Really Terrible Orchestra, but there is a much more serious side to Richard Neville-Towle’s pursuits with a baton. Having founded the baroque chamber orchestra, Ludus…

Charles Washington

Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa

Perthshire lad Charles Washington in Spanish company's Scottish debut

13 Jul 2009

Ordinarily, if you’re captured on video doing something unusual, the best you can hope for is a nice wee cheque from You’ve Been Framed. Unless you’re Charles Washington, of course, in which case you end up with an unconditional offer from one of the…

Heath McIvor

Edinburgh festival highlights: The top 30 shows

August’s finest entertainment at a glance

13 Jul 2009

We bring you a selection of the best shows at Edinburgh this year across all the festivals, including barnstorming retelling of the Goethe story Faust, former Talking Head David Byrne in experimental mood, The Wire's creator David Simon and theatre…

Admeto, re di Tessaglia

Doris Dörrie to direct Handel's Admeto, re di Tessaglia

The opera is given a Far Eastern flavour

13 Jul 2009

It might be nearly 300 years since it was first performed in London, but Handel’s opera Admeto, re di Tessaglia isn’t showing its age. Given an innovative reworking by director Doris Dörrie, the action has been transplanted from the classical Greek…

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