Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Figures from the worlds of opera and pantomime and a beloved writer are among those from the arts in Scotland who have been ...

Scottish Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 Season, which features 13 opera offerings: Oedipus Rex, Albert Herring, Don Pasquale, The Makropulos Affair, The Merry Widow, Trial by Jury, A Matter of ...

Tristan und Isolde, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Keith Bruce, four stars: It can scarcely have been planned, but on the day that ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created more than 30,000 artworks during an extraordinary nine-decade career. One image in particular from two centuries ago - the picture The Great Wave off ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Verdi’s work is far more profound than the program’s gloss, which seems to reach for contemporary relevance. As ...

The creative team behind 2012’s sell-out La traviata returns to bring Jen?fa to life, promising a beautifully observed production that makes full use of their extensive narrative gifts. All the more ...

*28-year-old Chicago janitor Keanon Kyles has scored the lead role in the Scottish stage production of Puccini’s opera La Bohème. He is set to perform for nine days at the Edinburgh International ...

They have been described as wild, cheerless and bleak, but it is the landscape of the Lammermuirs, these low, rolling hills that characterize the area bounded by the Berwickshire coast, that provide ...

Rising accommodation costs and delays in buying tickets continue to add pressure to Scotland’s cultural sector. Scottish Opera has renewed calls for multi-year funding and for a greater share of ...

Actor Timothée Chalamet has been taken to task by Scotland's national performing companies over his comments about opera and ballet, which he claimed "no-one cares about" any more. Scottish Ballet ...