Opera Scotland

Egisto 1984Scottish Opera

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Egisto had been a delightful success on its first run, and thoroughly deserved its revival a couple of years later. Linda Ormiston was the only survivor from the original cast, though James Bowman and Hugh Hetherington had appeared in the TV recording. Furthermore, this run was sung in the generally acceptable English version of Geoffrey Dunn. Two notable singers made company debuts. Fiona Kimm returned frequently in future years, but William Shimell was not to come back.

The cast variations are as detailed in the retrospective section of Scottish Opera's Yearbook for the following season.

 

Scottish Opera's season - 1983/84

Scottish Opera's 1983/84 season at the Theatre Royal opened with a new Death in Venice, followed before Christmas by Idomeneo (also new), and revivals of The Golden Cockerel and Hansel and Gretel. In the New Year, the season continued with revivals of L'elisir d'amore, La bohème and L'Egisto, before a final new production, Turandot, opened. There was also a short tour of the medium-scale theatres with a double bill of early one-act farces by Rossini, The Marriage Contract and The Silken Ladder. The autumn saw a further handful of performances of the recent Jonathan Miller Magic Flute, while the second half of December featured a two-week run of a musical, My Fair Lady.