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'Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical 8t Opera Listings compiled by Alan Morrison.
SUNDAY 28 Edinburgh I Edinburgh Players St Mark‘s Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace. 6pm. £5 (£3) at the door. Edinburgh Players play Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 (with Richard Beauchamp) antl Symphony No 39. I Vocal Recital St Giles~ Cathedral. High Street. 6pm. Free. with collection. Tenor Michael Ladomery sings pieces by Faure and Tosti and some Neapolitan songs. accompanied at the piano by David Lyle. I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £7—£ 19.50 (£5—£l7.50). The RSNO's winter season (and first at the Festival Theatre) opens with new Principal Conductor Alexander Lazarev taking us through an all-Italian programme. including Rossini‘s Overture: Semiramit/e. Berlioz's Hum/(l In Italy (with violinist Nobuko lmai). Tchaikovsky‘s ('aprir‘t‘io [ta/ten and Respighi’s Pines ()fRo/ne.
TUESDAY .30. Glasgow I Rigoletto Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000 7.15pm. £3.5()---£45.50. Kenny Ireland directs this Scottish ()pera production of Verdi‘s melodrama. Macedonian baritone Boris Trajanov takes the title role. with Claire Rutter singing Gilda. I Sarah Brightman and English National Opera Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 353 4137. 8pm. £12—£25 from 287 5511. Sarah Brightntan brings the mix of her talents to this concert.
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Edinburgh
I Raeburn Evening Royal Scottish Academy. Princes Street. 225 6671. 7pm. £15 (cheques payable to ‘National Galleries of Scotland‘) from Susanna Kerr, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 1 Queen Street. Edinburgh. EH2 IJD. Philippa Tunnell (harp) and Kate Chisholm (flute) play music by Bach. Tournier. Takemitsu. McGuire and lbert. The evening includes wine. refreshments and a short talk on Scottish painter Sir Henry Raebum. currently the subject of a major retrospective at the RSA.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (£6.50—£20). Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s Polynesian romance. Jessica Martin. Mark Wynter and Rustie Lee head a cast that romps through ‘There Ain‘t Nothing Like A Dame‘. ‘l‘m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair' and ‘Some Enchanted Evening‘.
WEDNESDAY 1
Edinburgh
I Afternoon Tea Concert Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019 (credit card hotline 667 7776). 3pm. £5 includes afternoon tea. Joanna Nicholson (clarinet) and Alan Emslie (percussion) play their own compositions and arrangements.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (£6.50—£20). See Tue 30.
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 7.45pm. £7.50—£17.50 (£3.50 at the door only) from Queen's Hall (668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776) and Ticketline (220 4349). Rather appropriately. the SCO start their 1997—98 season ‘ln the beginning. . . '. with Haydn‘s The Creation. Joseph Swensen conducts the SCO and SCO Chorus. with soloists Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano). John Mark Ainsley (tenor) and Stafford Dean (bass).
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THURSDAY 2 Glasgow
I Norma Theatre Royal, Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£45.50. Penelope Walmsley-Clark (brilliant in last year’s ll Trot'atore) takes the role of the Dmid high priestess whose love affair with a Roman soldier complicates her plans to lead the Gauls’ rebellion against their occupiers. Ian Judge directs this hit from the 1992—93 season. and Julian Smith is the conductor. In Italian with English supertitles.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Giles' Cathedral. High Street. 225. 9442. 1.10pm. Free. with retiring collection. Jeremy Suter is the guest performer.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 2pm. £6.50—£l7.50 (£3.25—£8.75). See Tue 30.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. N icolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (£6.50—£20). See Tue 30.
I La Boheme Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019 (credit card hotline 667 7776). 7.45pm. £6—£ 10 (concs on the day). Camberwell Pocket Opera present the Puccini favourite. set in Paris.
FRIDAY 3
Glasgow
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall. Albion Street. 7.30pm. £4.50—£15.50 (£3.50) from 287 5511. See Wed 1.
Ednburgh
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (no concs). See Tue 30.
Ayr
I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Town Hall. Ayr. 01292 611222. 7.30pm. £7—£15 (concs available). Osmo vansk'a takes the BBC $80 to Ayrshire for Elgar’s Wand Of Youth Suite. Tchaikovsky's Variations On A Rococco Theme (with cellist Tim Hugh) and Mendelssohn‘s Symphony No 3 ( ‘Scottish ').
SATURDAY 4
Glasgow
I Rigoletto Theatre Royal. Hope Street, 332 9000. 2.15pm. £3.50—E45.50. See Tue 30
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 353 4137. 7.30pm. £l8—£21 from 287 5511. John Lill is guest soloist for Prokofiev‘s Piano Concerto No 3. The rest of the programme is enlivened by Stravinsky‘s take on the Snow Maiden legend. Le Baiser De La Fée. and Tchaikovsky‘s Symphony No l ('Winrer Dreams ').
Edinburgh
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 2.30pm. £7.50—£ 19.50 (£3.75-£9.75). See Tue 30.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (no concs). See Tue 30.
Helenst
I The Barber Of Seville Victoria Hall. Sinclair Street. 7.45pm. £6 (£5/£2) from The Paperclip. Sinclair Street (01436 671189). Scottish Opera Go Round perform Rossini’s comic masterpiece featuring seven singers and piano accompaniment. Gavin Taylor takes the role of Figaro. with lvan Sharpe and Michelle Walton as young lovers Count Almaviva and Rosina.
Stiring
I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra MacRobert Arts Centre. Stirling University. 01786 461081. 8pm. £12 (£9.50). World premiere of Edward McGuire‘s BBC/ Stirling Council commission The Spirit Of Wallace. part of the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Osmo Vanska also conducts Tchaikovsky's Variations On A Rococco Theme (with cellist Tim Hugh) and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Symphony No 3 (‘Scottish ').
SUNDAY 5
Glasgow
I Children's Classic Concerts Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sauchiehall Street. 353 4137. Noon. £7 (£3.50) from 287 5511. In ‘Tootonic Toons‘. presenter Atarah Ben- Tovim. conductor Richard Armstrong and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera take the young audience on a ride through Wagner. Mozart. Beethoven. Brahms and Strauss. I Pops At The Phil Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 353 4137. 7.30pm. £9.50—£17.50 from 287 5511. lain Sutherland introduces and conducts an evening of TV classics. including The Sky At Night. Panorama. The F orsyre Saga and some catchy adverts. Performed by The City of Glasgow Chorus and City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Giles' Cathedral. High Street. 225 9442. 6pm. Free. with retiring collection. Matthew Beetschen perfomis works by Mendelssohn. Bach and Messiaen.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £7—£19.50(£5-£l7.50). See Sat 4.
MONDAY 6 Edinburgh I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (£6.50—£20). See Tue 30.
TUESDAY 7
Edinburgh
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—E22 (£6.50—£20). See Tue 30.
Ayr
I The Barber Of Seville Gaiety Theatre. Carrick Street. 01292 611222. 7.30pm. £10.50 (£10/£8). See Sat 4.
I Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free. Programme includes Quartet No 4 by Thomas Wilson.
WEDNESDAY 8
Edinburgh
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (£6.50—£20). See Tue 30.
I Edinburgh Quartet Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe Coburg Street. 7.30pm. £8 (£6/£4) from Queen's Ha11(668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776). The foursome play Glazunov's Quatour Slay. Mozart‘s Divertimento in F and Beethoven‘s Quartet in E flat.
THURSDAY 9 Glasgow I City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 353 4137. 7.30pm. £8—£21 from 287 5511. Sir Simon Rattle and the C850 get the Concert Hall‘s lntemational Series underway with Asyla. the first orchestral piece by young composer Thomas Ades. and Mahler's Symphony No 3 (with mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert).
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Giles‘ Cathedral. High Street. 225 9442. 1.10pm. Free. with retiring collection. John Harris perfomts lunchtime organ music.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 2pm. £6.50—£ 17.50 (£3.25—£8.75). See Tue 30.
I South Pacific Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22 (£6.50—£20). See Tue 30.
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019 (credit card hotline 667 7776). 7.45pm. £5—£17.50 (£6.50/£3.50). Joseph Swensen conducts the SCO in Strauss‘s Prelude to Capriccio and Horn Concerto No 2. and Mozart‘s
C (mcert Rondo for Horn and Orchestra and Symphony No 36 (‘Linz '). En'c Ruske is the horn soloist.