King’s Theatre, Edinburgh

  • American Lulu

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    This review also appears on the Opera Britannia website [Rating:2] Taking Alban Berg’s Lulu as a starting point, Scottish Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival present American Lulu – a new re-envisioned interpretation of this piece by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, who re-orchestrates Berg’s original, attempts to set it within the context of the Civil Rights movement in America and provides a conclusion to compensate…

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  • Montezuma

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    Montezuma by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Frederick II, King of Prussia [rating:4] This review first appeared on Opera Britannia King’s Theatre, Edinburgh – 14 August 2010 Despite a somewhat slow start to proceedings, this Edinburgh Festival production of Montezuma was an inventive, surprising and ultimately very enjoyable evening. An unsuccessful attempt at…

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