Edinburgh international festivalIn a socially distanced grand marquee, Valery Gergiev and the string players of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra were joined by pianist Steven Osborne Af…
Usher Hall, EdinburghJohn Eliot Gardiner fulfilled his ambition to conduct Bernstein's work, but this concert performance should have been staged Bach not Bernstein is the composer one asso…
Festival theatre, EdinburghA young ensemble cast fizzes in Laurent Pelly's playful production, with Catherine Trottmann's agile Rosina most memorableThere's not a powdered wig or an 18th-cen…
Usher Hall, EdinburghValery Gergiev used the combined forces of the Mariinsky and Royal Scottish National orchestras to full effect in Shostakovich's colossal Fourth SymphonyValery Gergiev h…
Festival theatre, EdinburghThis new production from Teatro Regio Torino has a solid cast and striking imagery backed by a richly nuanced account of Verdi's score Verdi's take on the Scottish…
Festival theatre, EdinburghFischer is a conductor with great things to say about Mozart but this staged concert performance fails to do justice to the opera's drama, white-painted extras not…