Tuesday 24 November 2009

Preview for the week 23-30 November

It’s another busy week at Edinburgh’s theatres, where the amateur companies are taking centre stage with three productions, at St Columba’s, Adam House and Saughtonhall, while Scottish Opera continue to hold the stage at the Festival Theatre. Panto time is well and truly upon us, with the Brunton up and running, the Lyceum opening and the King’s going into preview. And there’s even a wee Fringe-type event up at North Edinburgh Arts.

Opera Review - The Italian Girl in Algiers


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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