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OPERA, MUSIC, THEATRE & THE ARTS | SCOTLAND

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

  • Mahler’s Adagio & Brucker 4

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    MAHLER’S Adagio, the first movement of his unfinished Tenth Symphony, is a strange piece to build a concert around, not least because it is Mahler’s valediction to the world. Music director Thomas Sondergard’s programme introduction asked the audience to decide whether this was a haunting farewell to life or a great cry of love and…

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  • Don Giovanni

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    [Rating: 3] Scottish Opera has produced a solid and pleasing Don Giovanni but one which, though it contains some fine singing, takes few risks and makes few demands of its audience. Sir Thomas Allen sang the title role for years so knows the piece inside out, therefore this opportunity to direct the work must presumably…

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