Wednesday, November 8, 2017
The makers of a new show about the perfect musical farewell turned up a lot of names, from Celine Dion to U2 to Susan Boyle. But there was one clear favourite: the light-filled music of Esto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:05AMFriday, August 18, 2017
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghA new setting of Robert Burns’ The Slave’s Lament by Sally Beamish and Adrian Sherwood was the centrepiece of a concert of stark beauty and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Festival theatre, EdinburghA stellar cast in this minimalist new production – complete with shouty, Brexit-era headlines – make Mark-Anthony Turnage’s 1980s classic a tale for our time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Tron theatre / National Piping Centre, GlasgowThe story of fearless balladeer Margaret Barry is told on stage in a gentle and poignant tribute, and Leveret bring the finest of traditional fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Festival theatre, EdinburghTransplanted to 1930s Eritrea, Christopher Honoré’s version skims off the froth and stirs in the darker themes of power play, violence and abuseIt’s the dregs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMSunday, August 14, 2016
Usher Hall (two stars); Queen’s Hall (four stars), EdinburghAudience attention waned during the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s performance of Schumann’s Manfred, but Pierre-Laurent Aimar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Mitchell’s hit off-Broadway show about a tyrannical billionaire building a wall to ‘keep out the enemy’ was written in 2006 but could hardly be more topical. The folk singer discusses …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMFriday, August 28, 2015
Festival theatre, EdinburghTheatre company 1927’s enchanting staging of the opera as a silent film – with Papageno as Buster Keaton and Pamina as Louise Brooks – will be hard to topThi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Usher Hall, Edinburgh The Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Andrew Davis was graceful and bright, and some fine soloists made this concert-staging memorable and enjoyableThis opera spins its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMSunday, August 31, 2014
Usher Hall, EdinburghMills's own Sandakan Threnody, his farewell as festival director, pales next to Janáek's Glagolitic Mass Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMFriday, August 29, 2014
US composer Harry Partch invented an entirely new musical language and created an orchestra of new instruments to play it on. Heiner Goebbels tells Kate Molleson about his production of Part…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWednesday, August 27, 2014
Usher Hall, EdinburghTeatro Regio Torino's sparkling concert-performance of the full Rossini opera proves there's more to it than the 'Lone Ranger' overture Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Queen's HallSteven Osborne wrestled with Tippett and Alban Gerhardt communed with Britten, before pianist and cellist thrillingly joined forces Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, August 10, 2014
Usher Hall, EdinburghChoosing three of the most forward-thinking pieces composed before the first world war was a tantalising take on the festival's theme of art and conflict Continue readin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, March 23, 2014
Citizens, GlasgowInstead of Verdi's full orchestra we get a chamber ensemble – an awkward compromise in terms of timbre and balanceWith its regular home (the Theatre Royal), currently unde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Playhouse, EdinburghA warm, magnetic Smith teams up with Glass for a heartfelt tribute to Allen GinsbergPatti Smith met Allen Ginsberg when she was 22, and he bought her lunch thinking she w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMThursday, May 16, 2013
Theatre Royal, GlasgowIt is a glorious thing that The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company – purveyors of all things Gilbert and Sullivan – have returned to the stage after 10 years in the wings. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PM 
