La Clemenza di Tito, St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh

Star rating: **** The rehabilitation of La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart's late and still frequently vilified opera, marches on. Edinburgh Studio Opera's updated version, set in what looks like fascist Italy, has an immediacy enhanced by the resourceful use of St Cecilia's Hall as its setting. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's hyperactive production, planted right in the middle of the audience, takes this usually static opera seria by the scruff of its neck, overriding its presumed weaknesses with the sound of stamping jackboots and getting rid of the sung recitatives - not by Mozart himself - which so often cause it to drag.