This collaboration between Scottish Opera and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland celebrated the bicentenaries of opera heavyweights Wagner and Verdi.
This collaboration between Scottish Opera and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland celebrated the bicentenaries of opera heavyweights Wagner and Verdi.
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Nicola West
Although many of the audience members were clearly opera aficionados, the programme presented a pleasing, inexpensive and short introduction for those less familiar with the genre.
The orchestra, a blend of Royal Conservatoire students and musicians from the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, were at their best during Verdi's popular Overture from La Forza del Destino, in which the solemn "fate" leitmotif portends the violence and death of the subsequent acts. Highlights of Wagner's instrumental works included the playful banter between the front desks of violins during his Overture to Tannhäuser, and some majestic lines from the horn section in the attention-grabbing Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin.
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