Opera Scotland

Love for Three Oranges 1989Opera North

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This staging, by the mercurial Richard Jones, was a thoroughly deserved import to the Festival, with David Lloyd-Jones celebrating the notable success of his period in charge. The work itself had not been performed in Scotland since the 1962 Festival, and the cast was uniformly excellent, whether irrepressibly acrobatic or merely grotesque.

A more mixed blessing - a fun idea that slightly misfired - was the scratch and sniff card enclosed with the programme to be employed as cued by the performers. Some of the sniffs were nice and some were nasty, but in an extremely dark auditorium it was all a bit hit or miss.