RENOWNED Wagner conductor Anthony Negus has conducted complete cycles of the composer’s epic Ring operas in Australia recently and will do so again at Longborough in the Cotswolds next summer, but he was making his Strathpeffer Pavilion debut on Sunday afternoon, after mentoring the founder and director of the Mahler Players, Tomas Leakey.
Keith Bruce reviews Sir James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall
Richard E Grant and Peter Capaldi ensured it was no ordinary Saturday night at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Next summer’s Edinburgh International Festival will include more staged opera than has been part of the event for many years.
Our five star review of Colin Currie with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in City Halls, Glasgow.
Thanks to his millions of social media followers, YouTube channel, contracts with fashion labels and partnership on the music practice app, Tonic, Taiwanese/Australian soloist Ray Chen attracted some new young faces to the RSNO’s season concerts. The orchestra will be hoping some of them return, and that the European tour with the violinist in January is similarly successful at the box office.
SIR Thomas Allen’s second revival of the Scottish Opera show that was the star baritone’s UK professional debut as a director is a crowd-pleaser, in all the best senses of that expression.
SCOTTISH Opera’s tours to small venues are, as music fans the length and breadth of the country know, bi-annual opportunities to see and hear top talents at the start of their careers. These days that means not only the four singers involved, but also the directorial team and a young composer.
WHEN violinist Nicola Benedetti was announced as the successor to Fergus Linehan as artistic director of the Edinburgh International Festival, some were surprised that, as well as being the first woman and the first Scot to occupy the post, she was not also the youngest in the job.
