Festival Theatre
Review by Thom Dibidn
Busy to the point of bursting, Scottish Opera’s vigorous co-production with the NBR New Zealand Opera of Rossini’s shining comic opera at the Festival Theatre is a captivating yet strangely disconcerting affair.
Which is not to fault director Colin McColl. It is just to say that Rossini’s plot is so full of unlikely events that even this modernisation can’t stop the brain boggling. And while the set of a cheap daytime soap opera provides an exciting, logical and appropriately entertaining setting, so much is happening on stage that it threatens to detract from the music.
Indeed, McColl acknowledges as much... Link to full review in the Edinburgh Evening News...
Photo credit: Drew Farrell
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