| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 15-May-2013 Southbank Centre: Purcell Room | Chess, leaves and eagles: New works at the Purcell Room |
 This Richard Thomas Foundation concert at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room introduced us to two completely new works, and presented two slightly older pieces too for good measure. All were beautifully played by a top selection of performers, making for an excellent demonstration of the power of new music.
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| 6-Apr-2013 Theatre Royal | Dutchman flies into north-east Scotland |
 In Harry Fehr’s much-anticipated new production of The Flying Dutchman for Scottish Opera, the setting is in Scotland – as Wagner had originally intended before a last-minute switch to Norway during rehearsals for the first production in 1843. Fehr also brings the setting to the north-east of Scotland in the 1970s, a time when Scotland was getting to grips with North Sea oil, and indeed, a silhouette of an oil rig emerging out of a bluish fog is depicted on the front stage gauze.Read full review... | |
| 16-Mar-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | CBSO and Andris Nelsons: The Flying Dutchman in concert |
 Andris Nelsons followed up his 2012 Tristan und Isolde with a stirring performance of Wagner’s breakthrough work, Der fliegende Holländer, with a fine array of soloists and the CBSO in Birmingham.
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| 27-Oct-2012 Theatre Royal | Scottish Opera's steampunk Magic Flute delights |
 Following acclaimed productions at Scottish Opera of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, recently revived, Thomas Allen returns to Glasgow to direct The Magic Flute. Taking inspiration from the city’s famed boisterous music hall history, the collections of William Hunter and his own childhood images of the shipyards on the Wear, Allen’s theme is Victorian industrial with a modern twist of steampunk.
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