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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…
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…
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…
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…
23 Aug 2007
As comfortable chatting about American Idol as she is arias, Christine Brewer is swift to dispel any notion of the opera diva. Indeed, from the moment she burst onto the stage as a teenager with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Brewer knew she had…
Opera at this year’s Festival has taken an interesting journey. The programme started with Bernstein’s Candide, chronologically the last of those heard, with Monteverdi’s glorious 400 year-old L’Orfeo hot on its heels. The latter was fully – and…
7 May 2007
OPERA They have been described as wild, cheerless and bleak, but it is the landscape of the Lammermuirs, these low, rolling hills that characterize the area bounded by the Berwickshire coast, that provide the setting for Sir Walter Scott’s gothic…
15 Jan 2007
OPERA DOUBLE BILL USA and Canada, England and Wales, Sweden, Iceland, Singapore and Brazil are all countries that are fielding singers in the RSAMD’s comedy double bill of operas from Italy and France. Although a one-off blip means that Scotland is…
11 Nov 2006
OPERA Although Handel’s Tamerlano is one of the gems of Baroque opera, it is, oddly, very rarely performed. Or perhaps it’s not so odd, given that it is only relatively recently that such operas are gaining in renewed popularity. Conducting Scottish…
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