THROUGHOUT the Covid-19 pandemic stage artists across Scotland have been finding innovative ways to engage with their audiences, despite the closure of the theatres. No company has been more committed to this noble project than Scottish Opera. Our national opera company’s pandemic offerings have included acclaimed films of Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Indeed, during a slight loosening in coronavirus restrictions, they even presented a brilliant, physically distanced live production of Puccini’s La bohème, which was performed in the car park of the company’s Glasgow studios. Now, as we look forward to a progressively more vaccinated, increasingly “normal” future, the company has announced an exciting programme of filmed and live shows to take us from spring and into summer. There will be two films, Live In South Lanarkshire (which premieres on April 23) and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (which will start streaming
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall.
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall. It seems like a decade ago when audiences of all ages were packed tight to crack up - or not get it - at Covent Garden for the UK stage premiere of Gerald Barry s
Alice s Adventures Under Ground in a tirelessly resourceful production by director/designer Antony McDonald. Another brief flourish to a much smaller Royal Opera House audience in October reached many more spectators online with the realisation of the house s new Director of Opera Oliver Mears idea for staging song cycles/cantatas in the dazzling
Best of 2020: Opera
by David NiceSunday, 27 December 2020
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall.
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall. It seems like a decade ago when audiences of all ages were packed tight to crack up - or not get it - at Covent Garden for the UK stage premiere of Gerald Barry s
Alice s Adventures Under Ground in a tirelessly resourceful production by director/designer Antony McDonald. Another brief flourish to a much smaller Royal Opera House audience in October reached many more spectators online with the realisation of the house s new Director of Opera Oliver Mears idea for staging song cycles/cantatas in the dazzling