Scottish Opera’s relationship with the Lammermuir festival has supplied the East Lothian event with a varied diet of big opening shows, measured on its own scale. Transplanted to the company’s home venue, giving Glasgow a preview of the Lammermuir show as an early season-opener, this concert staging of Richard Strauss’s late one-act return to the world of Greek myth inevitably looked less grand.
Director Emma Jenkins has impressive form in making smaller shows work for Scottish Opera, including a recent Opera Highlights tour, and particularly a National Opera Studio residency showcase in February last year on this same stage.
