Event
Opera in Concert: Mascagni's Silvano
16 Apr 2019
Event times
7:30pm
Running time approx. 1 hr 50 mins
Cost of entry
Tickets:
£30 | £25 | £22 | £16 | £11
Over 65's | Unwaged | Disabled | Students £3 off
Under 26's £10
Groups of 8+ 25% off
**Please note a £1.50 transaction fee applies on the overall booking when purchasing online or over the phone (non-refundable)**
Usher Hall
Address
- Lothian Road
- Edinburgh
Scotland - EH1 2EA
- United Kingdom
Scottish Opera gives a long-overdue Scottish premiere to one of Mascagni’s lesser-known verismo operas. Music Director Stuart Stratford conducts The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and a glittering line-up of soloists, including acclaimed soprano Emma Bell as Matilde.
About
Much like Mascagni’s celebrated Cavalleria rusticana, Silvano is packed full of hard-hitting drama. A passionate seafaring tale, the plot centres on a doomed love triangle that ends in disaster, death and despair. Mascagni revels in this drama and the score, which includes the Barcarolle famously used in Scorsese’s Raging Bull, displays both his signature singing melodic lines and a spicy chromaticism that echoes much of Wagner’s work.
Conductor Stuart Stratford
Sung in Italian with English supertitles