| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 18-May-2013 Theatre Royal | Pirates of Penzance set sail from Glasgow |
 To end the 2012/13 season, Scottish Opera has teamed up with the D’Oyly Carte Company to create a crisp new production of The Pirates of Penzance, which heads off to England and Wales after touring Scotland.
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| 31-Mar-2012 Edinburgh Festival Theatre | Scottish Opera: The Rake's Progress |
 Paradox is unsurprising in the works of a composer who said: "The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit." The often distancing neoclassical idiom seemed unable to deny Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) emotionally engaging and affecting music. Moreover, although essentially a tragedy, tracking the hubristic Tom Rakewell's demise from fatal flaw to death in bedlam, there are many light moments.
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| 30-Sep-2011 Leeds Grand Theatre | Opera North's revival of Ruddigore is a visual treat |
 Baritone Thomas Hampson recently quipped that he'd try anything other than Gilbert and Sullivan, echoing the sentiments of many opera fans who are inclined to see the operettas penned by the Victorian duo as the preserve of amateur dramatic societies and school drama clubs. With this in mind, it was somewhat surprising to see Opera North create a new production of Ruddigore back in 2010.Read full review... | |
| 20-Nov-2010 The London Coliseum | Raskatov's A Dog's Heart: new opera at the ENO |
 Last night saw the UK première of Alexander Raskatov's new opera A Dog's Heart, performed by ENO together with theatre company Complicite. The opera, based on a 1925 novella by Russian satirist Mikhail Bulgakov, tells the tale of Sharik, a stray dog who is given the testicles and pituitary gland of a human by an eminent surgeon, the Professor. The transplant is intended as an experiment in rejuvenation, but to everyone's astonishment, the treatment has a different effect: the good dog Sharik turns into a dreadful human, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov.
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