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The productions boasts repertoire favourites alongside a world premiere of a modern new piece of music.

Daily Record

Tributes paid to 'formidable' Scots community stalwart who lost battle with cancer

Kathy Friend, from Glasgow, was involved in a number of nature-related ventures, and formerly worked as a camerawoman. She also had a stint working for Scottish Opera and even met Queen Elizabeth II.

Daily Record

Stewartry youngsters to be given a fright by Scottish Opera

The primary schools production of The Curse of MacCabbra Opera House will be coming to the region in March

Daily Record

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Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2022

Excellence and perilous funding went hand in hand, Salome sizzled, a piano great led the way, and India and Italy became musical neighbours

The Guardian - UK

Arts Council chief: to survive funding slash, opera should move to car parks and pubs

Darren Henley said decision to push ENO to leave London will force it to embrace positive changes

The Guardian - UK

Mark Brown: Scottish Opera's Ainadamar is 'visually spectacular in every aspect'

AS Scottish Opera opens its production of Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar – a reflection on the life, work and death of the…

The National (Scotland)

Ainadamar review – vibrant and deft production brings Golijov’s opera to the UK

Deborah Colker’s staging of the Argentinian composer’s tale of the poet Lorca is clever and effective, with Scottish Opera’s orchestra capturing the musical colours and the score’s collage of influences

The Guardian - UK

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Tears of Spain: Acclaimed Brazilian stage director makes opera debut

NO-ONE can accuse Scottish Opera of lacking artistic ambition.

The National (Scotland)

Glasgow Lives: Julia, 27, London, Professional Dancer

Tonight Julia talks about her love for dance and her journey to becoming a professional dancer.

Glasgow Live

Scottish Opera contractor hits East Lothian church wall a year after orchestra van knocked it down

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was performing at St Mary's Church in Haddington during last year's Lammermuir Festival when one of its vans struck the gate pillar knocking parts of it to the ground

Edinburgh Live

Thérèse review – deliciously over-the-top drama puts the soap into opera

Scottish Opera’s semi-staged performance of Massenet’s opera about a love triangle during the French Revolution is delightful - full of passionate outbursts and high emotion

The Guardian - UK

Candide review – Voltaire and Bernstein enter the social media era

A brilliantly reimagined and boldly immersive promenade performance, complete with flashmob choir, plays to the strengths of Leonard Bernstein’s witty operetta

The Guardian - UK

Candide: An outdoor opera for our times and a breath of fresh air

CANDIDE, the satirical novella by Voltaire, is one of the great works of philosophical literature. First published in 1759, the book takes a darkly…

The National (Scotland)

New opera festival for Dundee aims to hit the high notes with locals

Opera Festival Scotland is the first event of its kind in the country - and will feature heaps of local talent.

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Scottish Opera pop-up show arrives in Dundee this weekend

The National (Scotland)

Opera grandee reviving Mozart's Don Giovanni for a Scottish audience

MOZART’S ill-fated reprobate Don Giovanni is one of the great roles in the operatic canon. There are few men alive more familiar with the famous…

The Guardian - UK

Utopia, Limited review – a classy send-up of British values

Hackney Empire, LondonGilbert and Sullivan’s penultimate opera satirises privatisation, party politics and a press fixated on royal scandal

The Guardian - UK

The Miserly Knight/Mavra review – Russian opera double-bill sees Scottish Opera shine

The vocal performances are excellent but it’s Scottish Opera’s orchestra which is the real star of this staging of two contrasting operas based on works by Pushkin

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Scottish Opera triumphs with nightmarish take on Britten

Staged as a dystopian psychodrama, this sure-footed production is played with beautifully delineated detail

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cunning Little Vixen; Bath BachFest

Enchantment, glee and fresh voices are well met in Scottish Opera’s winning new production of Britten’s opera, while Janáček’s music holds court at ENO

Daily Record

Pupils are having a roaring good time learning The Lion King

St James' Primary in Renfrew is taking part in the Disney Musicals in Schools project run by Scottish Opera

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