Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Even with its enforced content change, this RSNO all-American programme had a certain completeness about it. There was the razzmatazz of hard-hitting Broadway in Leonard ...

Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling The peculiar circumstances of the Covid pandemic gave a cohort of young singers signed up as Emerging Artists of Scottish Opera an advantageous profile, but not ...

General Director Alex Reedijk is 20 years in the post as he launches Scottish Opera’s new season. He looks forward and back with Keith Bruce. As Scottish Opera launches the programme for its 2026/27 ...

Maybe it was too much to ask of the Scottish weather that the scorcher we’d enjoyed throughout June remain firmly in place for the 2023 East Neuk Festival. In the event, the close of the month, ...

At first sight, the debut disc from former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist – and fine Albert Herring in the company’s recent production of Britten’s opera – looks a strangely unhip release from a young ...

There are moments in the life of a music critic when a concert is thrust into the musical stratosphere by a performance that is literally out of this world. These are precious occasions, few and far ...

Fundamental to this awesome Usher Hall performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ was the element of control: utter control, visceral and monumental. And the figure exercising it over a full ...

It’s astonishing to think that Handel’s Messiah – a work the composer dashed off in only 24 days when his operatic megastardom was on the wane, and whose first performances were almost stymied by ...

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The RSNO ends October with Shostakovich’s massive Seventh Symphony, the wartime ‘Leningrad’, and it began the month with the same composer’s Fifth, an ambiguous ...

It has become a convenient cliché for cash-strapped companies that the operas of Wagner are best served by minimalist stagings, and Tristan und Isolde is probably the work where that approach is most ...

It’s just over two years since Polish conductor Marta Gardolínska made her impressive debut with the the RSNO. It wasn’t an ideal first appearance, given that lingering Covid restrictions had required ...

The first noise of Friday night’s performance of Beethoven’s Fifth by the RSNO and Elim Chan was not those famous four notes, but the stomp of the diminutive Principal Guest Conductor’s boot on the ...