We decided that as bullfighting and scorching hot, dry weather aren’t really a thing in Scotland, we should move our action to 1960s Paisley and obviously make our hero St Mi ...

Scottish Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 Season, which features 13 opera offerings: Oedipus Rex, Albert Herring, Don Pasquale, The Makropulos Affair, The Merry Widow, Trial by Jury, A Matter of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heidi Stober in ENO’s Mary Queen of Scots - Alastair Muir Back in the 1970s, before neglect of women composers was recognised as ...

Those oranges look charming at first, tended and cherished by scuttling servants, but gradually serve to encapsulate the claustrophobic, artifical world that Fehr has created for the opera, one ...

Pupils from Langlees Primary School were on the crest of a wave when they performed with members of Scottish Opera.

Rachmaninov’s The Miserly Knight and Stravinsky’s Mavra are an unlikely pair. Even if they are both based on Pushkin, they are unlikely to become as entrenched a coupling as Cav and Pag, but each ...

Scottish Opera’s much-loved, annual Primary Schools Tour is coming to Lanarkshire with The Dragon of the Western Sea. Running through the spring and summer terms, it visits schools all over Scotland ...

The night before Scottish singer Monica McGhee was due to have surgery to remove a tumour from her thyroid, she locked ...

Alex Reedijk, Alexander McCall Smith and Robert Fyfe are recognised for their work in the arts. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our free Daily newsletter. Did you know with a ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created more than 30,000 artworks during an extraordinary nine-decade career. One image in particular from two centuries ago - the picture The Great Wave off ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Verdi’s work is far more profound than the program’s gloss, which seems to reach for contemporary relevance. As ...