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Five operas to get their 15 minutes

31 Oct 2007

Scottish Opera has given an insight into five new 15-minute operas, which involve collaborations between Scotland’s top writing and musical talent. The works, which include contributions from popular authors Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin…

Russell Watson leaves intensive care after brain tumour

30 Oct 2007

Opera singer Russell Watson – who was admitted to hospital last week for emergency surgery on an ‘aggressive’ brain tumour – has been moved out of intensive care. The 40-year-old is now off the critical list at the Alexandra Hospital in Greater…

Russell Watson ‘critical’ after second brain tumour

26 Oct 2007

The popular opera tenor Russell Watson is critically ill after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a brain tumour for the second time in two years. The singer, known as The Voice, had been working in his recording studio on Wednesday when he…

Global tributes for Pavarotti

28 Sep 2007

A series of commemorations are to be held across the globe in honour of the late opera star Luciano Pavarotti. The tenor’s contribution to classical music will be celebrated by a number of concerts and exhibitions on October 6 - a month after he died…

The Barber of Seville

20 Sep 2007

She’s 31, he’s 62. She’s a young Scot at the start of her operatic career, he’s a singer who seems to have been at the top of his for ever. But in Scottish Opera’s new production of The Barber of Seville, it is not as singers that the two come together.

Tenors remember ‘a good friend and great poker player’

7 Sep 2007

Opera singers Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras have paid tribute to their fellow tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who lost his fight with pancreatic cancer on Thursday. The widely admired opera star performed in the Three Tenors concerts for more than 10…

Italian tenor Pavarotti dies at 71

6 Sep 2007

Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti has died at the age of 71 at his home in the Italian city of Modena after 40 years performing on stage. The singer was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, and did not make any public appearances after he had cancer…

Scottish theatre director to head Norwegian Opera

31 Aug 2007

A theatre director from Glasgow has been appointed to take control of Norwegian Opera, just as the company moves to a new opera house in Oslo. Paul Curran, who performed with Scottish Ballet in his early career and has staged performances across the…

Capriccio

23 Aug 2007

At the start of the Festival, opera-goers were spirited back to the genre’s origins with a spectacular production of the first great opera, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Now, as things draw to a close, the opera on offer is one which poses questions to itself…

Christine Brewer