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The 2023 Edinburgh International Festival, whatever the many attractions of its other offerings, seems rather light on opera due to the recent appointment of its new director - it takes longer that eight months to arrange such visits. We were therefore particularly pleased to note that the ambitious chamber opera company, Diva Opera, which last year hanselled the new St Andrews performing space in Laidlaw Music Centre with Così fan tutte , was returning to Scotland. In view of the...
Posted 29 Apr 2023 | Comments
Scottish Opera's production of Puccini's Trittico has been greeted with unanimous acclaim. What was not previously announced is that the staging is a collaboration with Welsh National Opera and will be seen in Cardiff during WNO's autumn season. This will follow after the performances of Golijov's Ainadamar which were already known about. There is no doubt that these collaborations with other opera companies are an important device for maintaining standards.