Arts & Ents

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  Review: Cos fan tutte, Perth Festival

  SITTING in the stalls, excited about a night of sublime music ahead, it's very hard to keep your heart from sinking at the announcement of various singers' indispositions and Lemsip dependencies.

• Sutra Edinburgh Festival Theatre

  Dance

• Tramway, Glasgow Rite Of Spring: Revisited

  History doesn't really repeat itself with this buoyantly multi-faceted project – unless you count the riot of new ideas and emerging talents as a nod in the direction of the now-legendary 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring (choreographed by Nijinsky, designed by Nicholas Roerich.)

• Edinburgh Folk Club Tom Paley

  A LIFETIME'S enthusiasm for what wouldn't have been called American roots music when Tom Paley started out on his journey of discovery informed the folk songs, blues, banjo and fiddle tunes and reminiscences that the veteran performer shared on this rare Edinburgh appearance.

• Simon Boccanegra English Touring Opera Perth Theatre

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• Perth Theatre The Seige of Calais English Touring Opera

  FOR most of its existence Donizetti's L'assedio di Calais has languished outside the operatic firmament, in part no doubt due to challenges posed by its uneven structure and patchily constructed narrative, which the composer himself acknowledged.

• Jools Holland Perth Concert Hall

  Rather like the swirling cameras employed by directors of BBC Two's Later, Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra is increasingly revolving around the diminutive figure in black rather than featuring him as a main player.

• RSNO: Elijah Glasgow Royal Concert hall

  WHAT a splendid weekend to be a music lover in Glasgow, with the complementary strands of the BBC SSO's shattering Rite Of Spring on Thursday followed by a wonderful RSNO performance on Saturday of Mendelssohn's Elijah, with a perfect cast and everyone in fantastic voice, the RSNO Choruses singing as though their collective life depended on it, and the magical catalyst of conductor Sir Andrew Davis finding in the piece warmth, pain and passion in a gloriously expansive performance which at once gave it teeth by singing it in German (we should call it Elias, not Elijah) while purging it of the accretions of Victoriana.