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Falstaff
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert's Church
- 24th Aug 2018
Scotland’s professional touring company returns with Verdi’s comic masterpiece. Based on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is as energetic and exciting musically as it is dramatically...
The Creation Myths of China
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 23rd - 26th Aug 2018
The shows are based on Chinese classical myths of the very beginning of the world. Like ancient myths from Greece of the very beginning of the world, China also owns their own explanation of how the world was born...
Patience
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 20th - 26th Aug 2018
Love is complicated. Twenty heartsick maidens fight for the love of an overblown poet, but the poet pines for a milkmaid. A platoon of dragoons can’t stand the wafty wordsmith, but adores the maidens...
Violetta
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Opera Allegra adapts Verdi's popular opera La Traviata into a chamber version for just four voices and piano – but with a contemporary twist. The swoon tunes and the two lovers, Violetta Valery (soprano) and Alfredo Germont (tenor), remain the same but their future is determined by her Fate (baritone) and his Mother (mezzo-soprano)...
An Afternoon of Delights
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 18th Aug 2018
Sell-out shows at the Fringe in 2016 and 2017! Voci Voices are four classically trained singers who offer an afternoon of songs from opera, operetta, musicals, jazz, swing and evergreens in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere...
The Tumbling Lassie
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 16th - 20th Aug 2018
A Fringe premiere performed together with Fergus of Galloway: two Scottish operas by Alexander McCall Smith set to music by Tom Cunningham, with a cast of singers, instrumentalists and a real acrobat! The Tumbling Lassie tells the true story of an acrobat in a circus in 17th-century Edinburgh and her escape from slavery with the help of a Borders family...
HMS Pinafore
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 15th Aug, 2018
The University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes their regular contribution to the Festival Fringe, this year with HMS Pinafore. Performing at their regular studio location of Paradise in Augustine’s, the infamous centre-stage support pole serves adequately as a ship’s mast and with the wheel behind it and the sailors around it everything is set to ‘sail the ocean blue’...
Century Song
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jim Ralley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 10th Aug, 2018
A woman stands downstage right, a spotlight illuminating her from one side. She starts playing with her voice. No actual words come out but there is beauty and pain, and there are jazz phrases and buzzing lips...
Idomeneo
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 9th - 12th Aug 2018
Aria Alba – Opera for All are delighted to bring their new and exciting abridged production of Mozart’s Idomeneo to Fringe 2018. Our reimagining finds us in a Republican state with Idomeneo, the despotic potentate being coerced by an even bigger despot to kill Idomeneo’s son, Idamante (secretly Democrat), to pay a favour...
Jan Tait and the Bear
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th - 16th Aug 2018
Based on a medieval story handed down by oral tradition, Emily Doolittle's comedic chamber opera tells the story of Jan Tait, a rugged and roguish Shetlander who is always ready for an adventure...
Pirates Revisited
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 7th - 8th Aug 2018
The Opera North Youth Company is proud to present an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular and much-loved Pirates of Penzance, directed by Emma Black and conducted by Nicholas Shaw...
BambinO
- Listing Children's Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 7th - 19th Aug 2018
Following a sold out run at the 2017 Fringe, this five-star show is back. BambinO is a first operatic adventure for six to 18-month-olds and their carers. This colourful work reinvents opera for children at an age when their minds are wide open to new sounds, images and experiences...
Opera Mouse
- Listing Children's Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 6th - 17th Aug 2018
Tilly Mouse lives under an opera house, and she just loves to sing! Her dream is to perform on stage. But whenever anybody sees her, they scream and run away. With determination, imagination and help from her friends, Tilly proves that even a mouse can be a star! Featuring arias from several operas, including Gianni Schicchi, Carmen and The Magic Flute...
All About Her – Feminism in Chinese Traditional Opera
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 4th - 11th Aug 2018
All About Her — Feminism in Chinese Traditional Opera creatively combines traditional Chinese Opera with contemporary ideas, exploring feminism in the traditional opera repertoire, and creating a new contemporary style...
hunger
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 4th - 11th Aug 2018
Joanna Ward and Ryan Hay's hunger is an original short opera inspired by Kafka's A Hunger Artist. This radical and claustrophobic piece follows a woman artist raging against the reductive categories into which the art world forces her...
The Sound of Their Music
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew's and St George's West, George St
- 4th Aug 2018
An evening celebrating the legendary partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Relive the classic songs from Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Carousel, The King and I and, of course, The Sound of Music as well as items from their lesser-known works – performed by the principals and chorus of The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society with their legendary directors, Alan Borthwick and David Lyle.
Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does the Love Go?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Following the first space war of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, a lone detective is contracted to find the love in this absurdist, avant-garde, funk opera. LA-based, intergalactic dance force, Thumpasaurus teams up with anarchic, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo for an hour of madness! Zach & Viggo sold out back-to-back seasons at Edinburgh Fringe, won best comedy awards in Brighton and Adelaide, are v good boys...
Drive-By Shooting
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
A street art opera. A comic story of passion and revenge played out by octogenarians on zimmer frames. He's been playing around with the next-door neighbour. She's going to shoot the fecker in the pecker with his Daddy's own gun...
Il Divo: Scarborough
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Scarborough Open Air Theatre
- 21st Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: Grantham
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Belvoir Castle
- 20th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: Chichester
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Stansted Park
- 17th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: Alnwick Castle
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Alnwick Castle
- 15th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: Stratford-upon-Avon
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Ragley Hall
- 14th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: Edinburgh
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Castle
- 13th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: Cardiff
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
- 10th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
Il Divo: London
- Listing Music
- West End
- Old Royal Naval College
- 8th Jul 2018
Founded in 2004 via the evil genius that is Simon Cowell, Il Divo is a supremely talented British-based international pop opera foursome comprised of French pop singer Sébastien Izambard, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, American tenor David Miller, and Swiss tenor Urs Bühler...
TriOperas
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Peacock Theatre London
- 23rd May - 1st Jul 2018
Three legendary operas come together for an unforgettable journey of love, vengeance, tears and laughter with shortened versions of Turandot, Butterfly and Carmen in one spectacular triple bill...
Lessons in Love and Violence
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 10th - 26th May 2018
A king is forced to choose between love and political expediency. His decisions allow his country to slide into civil war, and turn his wife and son against him. Lessons in Love and Violence is the latest collaboration between composer George Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp, two of Britain’s most celebrated artists...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 12th - 27th Apr 2018
Downtrodden housewife Katerina is seduced by Sergey. They are spotted by Katerina’s father-in-law Boris. Katerina poisons Boris and with Sergey’s help murders her husband Zinovy...
Macbeth - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 2nd - 10th Apr 2018
The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth and his wife to horrific acts...
Manon
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 29th Mar - 16th May 2018
Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love. They elope to Paris, but when Monsieur G.M. offers Manon a life of luxury as his mistress she can’t resist...
La Traviata
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 16th Mar - 13th Apr 2018
La Traviata tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the romantic Alfredo Germont. Played out against the hypocrisy of upper-class fashionable society, Alfredo and Violetta’s love threatens to shame his family...
From The House Of The Dead
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 7th - 24th Mar 2018
From the House of the Dead is Janáček’s final work and arguably his most powerful. Completed just before his death and first performed posthumously in 1930, the opera is based on Dostoyevsky’s semi-autobiographical novel describing life in a Siberian gulag...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 1st - 15th Mar 2018
Based on Shakespeare’s popular comedy, Britten’s opera follows the consequences of a falling-out between the fairy-king Oberon and his queen, Tytania. Mistaken identities, confused lovers and alarming transformations are the result...
Iolanthe
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 13th Feb - 7th Apr 2018
Iolanthe is a brilliantly funny, satirical fantasy, revealing a typically Gilbert & Sullivan topsy-turvy worldview. Phyllis and Strephon wish to marry, but as Phyllis is a ward of court she requires the Lord Chancellor’s permission...
Carmen - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 6th Feb - 16th Mar 2018
Barrie Kosky directs Bizet’s much-loved opera, with Jakub Hrůša and Christopher Willis conducting two casts led by Anna Goryachova and Gaëlle Arquez in the title role...
Satyagraha
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 1st - 27th Feb 2018
Satyagraha is composer Philip Glass’s meditation on Gandhi’s early years in South Africa, tracing the progress of his concept of non-violent protest as a positive force for change...
Tosca - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 15th Jan - 3rd Mar 2018
Three casts, led by Adrianne Pieczonka, Angela Gheorghiu and Martina Serafin and conducted by Dan Ettinger and Plácido Domingo, star in The Royal Opera’s production of Puccini’s thriller...
Salome
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 8th - 30th Jan 2018
Richard Strauss brought an extravagant intensity to his adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé. The glitter of Herod’s palace, the flicker of torches and the pale light of the moon are all vividly evoked in a sumptuously rich score...
Rigoletto - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 14th Dec 2017 - 16th Jan 2018
Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda, it seems the curse is taking effect… Rigoletto arranges to have the Duke assassinated...
Marnie
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 18th Nov - 3rd Dec 2017
Marnie is a compelling psychological thriller set in England during the late 1950s. A young woman makes her way through life by embezzling from her employers, before she moves on and changes her identity...
Rodelinda
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 26th Oct - 15th Nov 2017
Caught in a power play that could break a marriage and steal a throne, can Rodelinda stay true to love? Rodelinda is a dramatic tale of power, anguish and love. When Grimoaldo takes Bertarido’s throne, Bertarido flees abroad, leaving behind his grieving wife Rodelinda...
Les Vepres Siciliennes
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 12th Oct - 4th Nov 2017
Hélène longs for vengeance on Montfort, who murdered her brother. She enlists the help of her lover, Henri, and the rebel Procida – although Henri will discover that Montfort is his father...
The Barber of Seville
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- London Coliseum
- 5th - 30th Oct 2017
Bribery, deception and disguise. Figaro needs all his wiles to help the Count out-wit Dr Bartolo and ensure true love wins the day. Jonathan Miller’s classic production of The Barber of Seville is a feast of frivolous fun...
Aida
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 28th Sep - 2nd Dec 2017
Aida must choose between the man she loves and the homeland she longs for. Betrayal is the only option. Aida is a timeless story of duty, love and betrayal amid the clash of war. This is opera on a grand scale, in which ENO’s award-winning Chorus and Orchestra will demonstrate their full power...
Die Zauberflote
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 26th Sep - 14th Oct 2017
Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro. He begins his quest, accompanied by the bird-catcher Papageno – but all is not as it seems… Tamino and Papageno discover Sarastro is a wise and kind leader...
La Boheme
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 25th Sep - 10th Oct 2017
When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall instantly in love. But their happiness is threatened when Rodolfo learns that Mimì is gravely ill. Rodolfo is painfully aware that he cannot afford the medicine and care Mimì needs, and so separates from her...
The Marriage of Figaro
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lauriston Halls
- 23rd - 26th Aug 2017
Following their 2016 performances of La Bohème, ***** (Herald), Magnetic Opera presents a new production of Mozart's hilarious masterpiece. This contemporary staging is performed by excellent, young professional singers in English and with a chamber orchestra.
The Pearl Fishers
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert's Church
- 22nd Aug 2017
Scotland’s professional touring company returns with Bizet’s moving tale, featuring one of opera's favourite duets. Set in Ceylon, two men’s vow of friendship is threatened by their obsession with the same woman, a beautiful priestess, who battles to suppress her feelings of love in order to uphold her sacred oath...
Ariadne auf Naxos
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton St Mary's
- 17th - 20th Aug 2017
VoiceArc are excited to return to the Fringe with their new production of R Strauss' wonderful opera Ariadne auf Naxos. Our re-working is set in a small-town Scottish church about to be demolished the next day...
In a Faraway Place
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 14th Aug 2017
In a Faraway Place is one of the most well known Chinese folk songs in the world. The songwriter Wang Luobin is often referred to as the King of Western Chinese folk songs. Based on Wang Luobin’s legendary life story in Western China, the story will be told using the tunes and lyrics of his most well-known songs...
Semele
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton St Mary's
- 10th - 13th Aug 2017
Aria Alba – Opera for All return to this year's Fringe with their exciting retelling of Handel's opera Semele. Semele is celebrity royalty, her image regularly splashed all over the media and loved by trendsetters...
From Havana to Buenos Aires: Cuban Classics
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Mary's Cathedral
- 10th Aug 2017
Marcos Madrigal, Cuba's most exciting young concert pianist, appears with opera singer Ann Liebeck in a programme of Latin American classical songs, opera arias and virtuoso piano music...
BambinO
- Listing Children's Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 8th - 20th Aug 2017
BambinO is a first operatic adventure for six to 18-month-olds and their carers. This unique and colourful work reinvents opera for children at an age when their minds are wide open to new sounds, images and experiences...
From Havana to Buenos Aires: Cuban Classics
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew's and St George's West, George St
- 7th - 9th Aug 2017
Marcos Madrigal, Cuba's most exciting young concert pianist, appears with opera singer Ann Liebeck in a programme of Latin American classical songs, opera arias and virtuoso piano music...
From Havana to Buenos Aires: Cuban Classics
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Giles' Cathedral
- 5th Aug 2017
Marcos Madrigal, Cuba's most exciting young concert pianist, appears with opera singer Ann Liebeck in a programme of Latin American classical songs, opera arias and virtuoso piano music...
Robert White: InstruMENTAL
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2017
Malcolm Hardee Award-winning, gay, autistic comedian adopts a new stance. For the first time combining his musical composition talents with his well-honed comedy chops, Robert presents a fully orchestrated comedy opera of unbelievable, but true, misadventures and misfortune...
The Merchant of Venice
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 19th - 20th Jul 2017
André Tchaikowsky’s Shakespeare-inspired opera is an important rediscovery in 20th-century opera and receives its London premiere in Welsh National Opera’s production, directed by Keith Warner...
Otello
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 8th - 15th Jul 2017
Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera, conducts a new production by Keith Warner of Verdi’s great setting of Shakespeare’s tragedy. This is a Verdi masterpiece and one of the central works of the opera repertory: striking choruses from the start, arresting ensembles and scenes of haunting intimacy...
Turandot
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 5th - 16th Jul 2017
Christine Goerke and Lise Lindstrom take the title role in Andrei Serban’s striking staging of Puccini’s final opera. Princess Turandot has sworn that no man shall marry her unless he can correctly answer three riddles...
Mitridate, re di Ponto
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 26th Jun - 7th Jul 2017
Farnace and Sifare, sons of the mighty warrior Mitridate, both love their father’s fiancée Aspasia. While Sifare is determined to remain loyal to his father, Farnace vows never to yield...
L'elisir d'amore
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 27th May - 22nd Jun 2017
Village boy Nemorino is besotted with the wealthy Adina. She rejects his declarations of love – but fortunately the quack Doctor Dulcamara is on hand with a ‘love potion’ to help him win her heart...
Verdi's Otello
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market
- 23rd May 2017
A play. An opera. Two visions. Two voices. One story. Jealousy and deception, trust and trickery, love destroyed. A world of tall tales and derring-do. Of soldiers and heroes - and super-men with feet of clay...
NU(I)T
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 7th May 2017
The Countess Alex Zapak, direct from Berlin, presents her captivating new show NU(I)T The international, trans-media, award-winning artist to perform at Brighton Fringe 2017. Punk, Rock, Fellini, Spaghetti Western, lo-fi, Opera, cinematic surrealism, theatre, art, performance, multi-media, live experience...
Canciones Amatorias. Eline Vandenheede: Soprano
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends' Meeting House
- 7th May 2017
The songs of Enrique Granados, Donizetti and Mozart brought to life with the signature warmth and power of the ravishing voice of Eline Vandenheede, a young soprano with a world class voice...
The Exterminating Angel
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 24th Apr - 8th May 2017
Guests are invited to an exclusive dinner after a night at the opera. Towards the end of the evening they find they are unable to leave. The door is open – but no one can get out, and no one can get in...
Partenope
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- London Coliseum
- 15th - 24th Mar 2017
Rosmira still loves the man who jilted her, Arsace. He, unfortunately, is in love with beautiful Partenope. As too are Armindo and Emilio. So naturally, Rosmira dresses up as a man and becomes another of Partenope’s suitors, in order to win back Arsace...
The Winter's Tale - ENO
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 27th Feb - 14th Mar 2017
A world premiere from ENO’s composer-in-residence Ryan Wigglesworth, The Winter‘s Tale a compelling new interpretation of Shakespeare’s tale of love, loss and reconciliation...
Adriana Lecouvreur
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 10th Feb - 2nd Mar 2017
Angela Gheorghiu and Hrachuhi Bassenz star in the first revival of David McVicar’s sumptuous production of Cilea’s tragic opera. The actress Adriana Lecouvreur is adored by many – including stage manager Michonnet – but she loves Maurizio, Count of Saxony...
The Pirates of Penzance
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 9th Feb - 25th Mar 2017
Pitiful pirates, blundering bobbies, and a fully grown five-year-old. It's all absurdly enjoyable! Let’s get this straight. The pirates, who take pity on orphans, are really peers of the realm...
La Traviata
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 16th Jan - 4th Jul 2017
Joyce El-Khoury, Ekaterina Bakanova and Corinne Winters lead three excellent casts in Richard Eyre’s much-loved production of Verdi’s most famous opera. Alfredo and the courtesan Violetta fall passionately in love...
Written on Skin
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 13th - 27th Jan 2017
A powerful Protector commissions a young artist to create an illuminated book to celebrate his power. The book, and its artist, sparks the rebellion of the Protector’s submissive wife Agnès...
Der Rosenkavalier
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 22nd Dec 2016 - 24th Jan 2017
Andris Nelsons conducts two starry casts including Renée Fleming, Alice Coote and Rachel Willis-Sørensen in Robert Carsen’s new production of Richard Strauss’s charming operatic comedy...
Il Trovatore
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 13th Dec 2016 - 9th Feb 2017
The first revival of David Bösch’s new production for The Royal Opera, with two casts including Maria Agresta, Lianna Haroutounian, Anita Rachvelishvili and Dmitri Hvorostovsky...
Manon Lescaut
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 12th Dec 2016
Antonio Pappano conducts Sondra Radvanovsky and Aleksandrs Antonenko in the first revival of Jonathan Kent’s thought-provoking production of Puccini’s first operatic triumph...
The Pearl Fishers
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- London Coliseum
- 30th Nov - 2nd Dec 2016
The life-long friendship of Nadir and Zurga has survived their precarious existence on the treacherous sea-shore. But with the arrival of Leïla, a grave threat to the bond between them is about to be unveiled...
Tosca
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- London Coliseum
- 29th Nov - 3rd Dec 2016
Opera singer Tosca’s love for artist Cavaradossi knows no compromise. But with Rome in turmoil, the personal becomes political. Sadistic police chief Scarpia wants Tosca for himself – and, to his manipulative mind, nothing could be easier than turning the very strength of her passion to his own advantage...
A Terrified Soul – Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 31st Aug, 2016
There have been by my count no less than six adaptations of Macbeth at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, yet the China Anhui Opera Institute’s offering may be the most unusual. Chinese opera aficionados don’t get many opportunities to see the art form in the UK so will enjoy this, but it is accessible and interesting enough for anyone with a basic understanding of the plot of Macbeth to watch and enjoy...
The Mikado
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 26th Aug, 2016
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado is a work that is in many ways very problematic, due to its fetishising and cultural stereotyping of the Japanese, written at the height of the British Empire...
La Traviata
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert's Church
- 25th Aug 2016
Scotland's Opera Bohemia returns to the Fringe for its seventh year with one of the world’s most loved operas, La Traviata. Verdi's masterpiece tells the tale of the famous courtesan Violetta, who commits the cardinal sin of falling in love...
The Snow Child
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 24th Aug, 2016
A short and well-formed chamber opera, which shows lots of potential, but needs to pick up on the details. This is an adaptation of The Snow Child by Angela Carter that stays very true to the original...
La Bohème
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lauriston Halls
- 24th - 27th Aug 2016
Following their 2015 Scottish tour of Maria Stuarda, **** (Herald), Magnetic Opera presents a new production of Puccini's much loved La Bohème. This contemporary staging is performed by excellent young professional singers in English and with a chamber orchestra.
ROH: Tosca
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 22nd Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. The painter Mario Cavaradossi agrees to help the fugitive Angelotti escape, and so attracts the attention of Scarpia, the sadistic Chief of Police...
The Mikado
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 21st Aug, 2016
St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this time with their own take on The Mikado...
Something for Everyone
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Ukrainian Community Centre
- 21st - 22nd Aug 2016
A concert full of well known pieces from the worlds of opera, operetta, musicals and popular music.
ROH: Don Giovanni
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 19th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. The impulsive and charismatic Don Giovanni travels through Europe seducing women, accompanied by his long-suffering servant Leporello. But when Don Giovanni commits murder he unleashes a dark power beyond his control...
Glyndebourne: La Traviata
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 17th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. Verdi's tragic masterpiece is elegantly updated by director Tom Cairns in this 'fresh and thrillingly unfamiliar' (Independent) Glyndebourne production...
ROH: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 15th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. Three criminals on the run find they can go no further and found a city – Mahagonny, city of gold. John Fulljames presents a new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's furiously impassioned satire on consumerism which finds new relevance in our insatiable depletion of the earth's resources...
YCA Secret Opera: Mansfield Park
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 15th - 20th Aug 2016
Following a sell-out run and five star reviews for their recent production of Carmen, Edinburgh Studio Opera return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park...
The Descent o' Orpheus tae the Underwarl
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lauriston Halls
- 11th - 12th Aug 2016
Scotland's fresh new opera company present a unique production of Charpentier's Descent Of Orpheus to the Underworld in an exciting Scots language translation. Roll up! Roll up! Come and see the weird and wonderful characters of the circus bring the legend to life as never before...
Die Fledermaus
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton St Mary's
- 11th - 14th Aug 2016
Aria Alba – Opera for All are delighted to bring their exciting new production of Die Fledermaus to this year's Fringe. It is a reworking of the original concept and is set in a village taken over by an invading militia...
Opera Mouse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 10th Aug, 2016
Opera Mouse is a pleasant Canadian import presented as a one-woman puppet show by Melanie Gall.The story, unsurprisingly, follows a young mouse named Tilly who wants to be an opera singer but who refuses to accept any help in the process...
Glyndebourne: Don Pasquale
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 10th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. One of the reasons why Donizetti's Don Pasquale is regarded as a cornerstone of the Italian comic opera tradition is because its characters are no mere commedia dell'arte stereotypes, but complex, vulnerable human beings...
ROH: Nabucco
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 9th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. Nabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter Fenena loves the Israelite Ismaele. She releases their prisoners, leading her vengeful half-sister Abigaille to plot to take power...
ENO: Benvenuto Cellini
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 8th - 24th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. Monty Python legend Terry Gilliam unleashes his inexhaustible imagination on Berlioz's dazzling but rarely seen opera Benvenuto Cellini. Following on from his award-winning production of The Damnation of the Faust, Gilliam now takes on this extraordinary tale of the infamous 16th-century goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini...
ENO: The Pirates of Penzance
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 7th - 28th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance. Renowned film maker Mike Leigh makes his opera directing debut with Gilbert and Sullivan's sparkling comic masterpiece. The Pirates of Penzance tells the story of the pirate apprentice Frederic and his love for Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley who has the famous tongue-twisting patter song I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General...
Unseal / Unseam & Erwartung
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
An electroacoustic opera adapted from Bluebeard's Castle (composer Béla Bartók), performed with a concert version monodrama, Erwartung (composer Arnold Schoenberg). The woman, soprano and sound artist Micaela Tobin, returns to her physically abusive partner...
Musical Anthology
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greyfriars Kirk
- 5th Aug 2016
Musical Anthology is a performance of sacred, secular, classical, contemporary and world music with organ, trumpets and voice – Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Galuppi, Boëllman, Ross, Stanley, D'Indy, Gavarentz and Scottish music...
YCA Recital
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 5th - 20th Aug 2016
Enjoy a summer evening recital in the calm surroundings of Edinburgh Academy’s Robertson Room. A brilliant selection of Scotland’s emerging young classical talents perform their favourite music in an intimate setting.
Bouffe!
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Church of the Annunciation
- 1st - 4th Jun 2016
"Highly recommended. Great performances of Donizetti, Martini, and Offenbach. If you missed it, you'll be kicking yourself!" (Fringe Review 2015) Redblonde Productions and West Sussex Opera present the triumphant return of last year's hit...
CarMen
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 30th May - 1st Jun 2016
Set in the gay community of liberal 1920s Spain. José, the central character in this all-male reworking of Bizet’s tragic opera, is sexually confused and dominated by a strictly religious upbringing.
Madama Butterfly
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 29th May - 2nd Jun 2016
This traditional production champions the anti-stereotype stance of the LGBT community, by casting the superb soprano Paul Bork in the title rôle of the tragic geisha. Sung in Italian with surtitles.
Maria: The Life, Loves, and Music of Callas
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 27th - 29th May 2016
Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now 'La Divina' Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis. With 'O Mio Babbino Caro', and more... For promo videos visit our website.
A Threesome
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 16th - 22nd May 2016
A show suitable for students, the middle aged and old age pensioners - and that’s just the cast! The group looks at the humour in their age and gender differences with interruptions for satire, music, spoons, stand-up, poetry, and vaudeville...
M Lamar: Funeral Doom Spiritual For Male Soprano Piano and Electronics
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 15th May 2016
From the ashes and ruins of long dead earth and the infinite blacknesses of what will be the year 2116, emerges the Funeral Doom Spiritual. Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Antony Paul Farley calls “The motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation and neo-segregation...
Classical Spectacular
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Bartholomew's Church
- 14th May 2016
Sublime popular classics by celebrated British composers, featuring professional soloists and instrumentalists, amidst stunning surroundings of St Bartholomew’s Church. Walton's exuberant 'Crown Imperial', Elgar's moving 'Nimrod' and Chilcott's uplifting 'Requiem' - regarded by many as equal to Fauré's.
It's Bound to be Right on the Night
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet St Andrew's
- 13th - 14th May 2016
“Actually” Gay Men’s Chorus are celebrating their 10th anniversary with performances dating back to the very beginning. After their phenomenal concert with the London Gay Symphony Orchestra at the Brighton Dome in January, come and join them as guests from the past appear through the magic of Dr Who!
H.M.S. Pinafore
- Review
- ★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 30th Aug, 2015
While it is laudable to have an open policy for membership of an amateur operatic society the knock-on effects can be dire as demonstrated in Cat-Like Tread’s production of H.M.S...
Tutte Contro Verdi
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 26th Aug, 2015
The rise of feminist critique in the world of opera has given life to some fascinating discussions. It opens up a whole new way of appreciating our favourite operas, and this is exactly what Spanish actress and soprano Miren de Miguel aims to achieve through Tutte Contro Verdi...
Qiuzi
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 26th - 29th Aug 2015
In China during the Sino-Japanese War of 1938, a worn-out young Japanese lieutenant unexpectedly saw a beautiful face that was familiar yet distant. As the night fell on the Green Willow Hotel, fate had also befallen ...
Song to Me – The Music and Songs of Julian Wagstaff
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 25th - 28th Aug 2015
The popular Scottish composer presents highlights from his chamber music, musicals and operas. Spanning over a decade of work, this hour-long show includes songs and arias from the stage works John Paul Jones, The Turing Test and Breathe Freely, the piano trio A Persistent Illusion and many more...
Madame Butterfly
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew's and St George's West, George St
- 24th - 27th Aug 2015
Celebrating six years, Opera Bohemia returns with its most popular and successful production to date, Madame Butterfly. A cast of some of Scotland’s finest young opera singers bring Cio-cio San's heartbreaking tale to life...
The Garden
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 23rd Aug, 2015
The Garden is an off-site performance that takes place a short walk away from the Traverse Theatre. The performance space is located in a small room that has been converted into a kitchen...
Minerva Scientifica – Mary Anning
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 22nd - 23rd Aug 2015
Informal, dramatic presentation of the life and work of this phenomenal Victorian paleontologist featuring music by renowned British composer Judith Bingham. Lyme Regis comes to Edinburgh...
Orpheus and Eurydice
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 21st Aug, 2015
A 250-year-old opera is a difficult proposition for the Edinburgh Fringe, where the emphasis is frequently placed on innovation and experimentation. It is thus refreshing to discover that The About Turn Theatre Company’s production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice is a truly modern and urgent show...
An Evening of Melody with the Wee Three Tenors
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 21st Aug 2015
West End and opera star John Marshall returns with tenors Fraser Simpson, Bruce Davis, and Richard Lewis, piano, to perform favourite opera, Broadway and movie hits.
Chinese Art and Culture Festival
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 21st - 22nd Aug 2015
Edinburgh's first ever Chinese Arts and Cultural Festival featuring a traditional opera, authentic singers, a spectacular troupe of young drummers and more all set alongside a three day interactive celebration of authentic Chinese arts and culture...
An Evening of Melody with the Wee Three Tenors
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 21st Aug 2015
West End and opera star John Marshall returns with tenors Fraser Simpson, Bruce Davis, and Richard Lewis, piano, to perform favourite opera, Broadway and movie hits.
The Pirates of Penzance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 20th Aug, 2015
“In Pirates, there are gems from the first to the last minute. You don’t think ‘Oh, I’ll have to sit through this bit.’” Mike Leigh’s opinion of this comic operetta is no doubt endorsed by lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan all over the world...
Minerva Scientifica – The Franklin Effect
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 20th - 21st Aug 2015
Informal close harmony, DNA-infused, vocal quartet, present Rosalind Franklin's photo 51, respawned through contemporary women scientists at King's College London in creative collaborations with composers: Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Kate Whitley, Lynne Plowman, and Shirley Thompson.
Minerva Scientifica – Miriam Rothschild
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 18th - 19th Aug 2015
Anyone for fleas? Informal, dramatic presentation of the life and work of eminent, enigmatic, eccentric entomologist Miriam Rothschild, featuring Miriam: a music theatre piece by British composer Karen Wimhurst (Cauld Blast Orchestra)...
Maria Stuarda – Mary Queen of Scots
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lauriston Halls
- 18th - 22nd Aug 2015
Bound by blood and only by bloody acts will they be free of one another. This contemporary staging of Maria Stuarda ruthlessly exposes the emotions in Bardari’s visceral words and Donizetti’s emotional score, which work to dramatise an imagined meeting of rival queens who could not coexist: Elizabeth and Mary...
Aria Goes Office
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton St Mary's
- 14th - 17th Aug 2015
Aria Alba – Opera for All is delighted to present its new and original Fringe opera, populated with well known arias, duets, ensembles and choruses from your favourite operas, along with some lesser known works...
Opera Mouse
- Listing Children's Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Safari Lounge
- 12th - 31st Aug 2015
Tilly Mouse lives under an opera house, and she just loves to sing! Her dream is to perform on stage. But whenever anybody sees her, they scream and run away. With determination, imagination, and help from her friends, Tilly proves that even a mouse can be a star! Featuring songs and arias from several operas, including Gianni Schicchi, Carmen and The Magic Flute...
Sing Sistah Sing!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew's and St George's West, George St
- 12th - 28th Aug 2015
Join these two extraordinary performers for a joyful and soulful celebration of the African American female voice, highlighting the extraordinary breadth of artistic expression by women such as Nina Simone, Marian Anderson and Ella Fitzgerald...
The Secretary Turned CEO
- Review
- ★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 11th Aug, 2015
The Secretary Turned CEO is a neon, cartoon parody of a classical opera, playing with traditional comedic characters and farcical situations in a modern setting. Although full of enthusiasm and colour, unfortunately the piece isn't as entertaining as it sets out to be and the performances don't resurrect it into a success...
A Feathery Cabaret Riot
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Boards
- 11th - 15th Aug 2015
The galah is a bird found in large numbers across Australia. It is highly intelligent, sociable, playful and often quite … loud. The Flaming Galahs are Lucy Mulgan on double bass, Lesley Anne Sammons on piano and Krysia Mansfield on vocals: they peck on percussion, sashay in sequins, they squawk and they coo! These Flaming Galahs have effervescently adapted to their UK environment...
Jane Austen's Persuasion: A New Musical Drama
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2015
Though Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most prominent literary names, Persuasion is perhaps her least widely read work. It tells of Anne Elliot, her history of broken love and her hopes of reconciliation with Captain Wentworth...
The Tumbling Lassie
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
A Fringe premiere performed together with Fergus of Galloway: two Scottish operas by Alexander McCall Smith set to music by Tom Cunningham, with a cast of singers, instrumentalists and a real acrobat! The Tumbling Lassie tells the true story of an acrobat in a circus in 17th-century Edinburgh and her escape from slavery with the help of a Borders family...
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