Audience problems would be eased with an opera matinee performance
In response to Michael Tumelty's question was to why the Usher Hall audience for Karita Mattila's recent recital was so meagre (review, the Herald, September 2), last evening we, after previously attending every Usher Hall concert since opening night, were – like his colleague Conrad Wilson – attending the Festival Theatre.
In response to Michael Tumelty's question was to why the Usher Hall audience for Karita Mattila's recent recital was so meagre (review, the Herald, September 2), last evening we, after previously attending every Usher Hall concert since opening night, were – like his colleague Conrad Wilson – attending the Festival Theatre.
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There we were experiencing the marvellous Mariinsky company’s superb performance of Richard Strauss’s rarely-performed Die Frau Ohne schatten under the superb conductor– and as of last evening the honorary president of the Edinburgh International Festival – Valery Gergiev.
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Audience problems would be eased with an opera matinee performance
In response to Michael Tumelty's question was to why the Usher Hall audience for Karita Mattila's recent recital was so meagre (review, the Herald, September 2), last evening we, after previously attending every Usher Hall concert since opening night, were – like his colleague Conrad Wilson – attending the Festival Theatre.
There we were experiencing the marvellous Mariinsky company’s superb performance of Richard Strauss’s rarely-performed Die Frau Ohne schatten under the superb conductor– and as of last evening the honorary president of the Edinburgh International Festival – Valery Gergiev.
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