Opera Scotland

Concert of Excerpts 2015Edinburgh International Festival

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The first half of this concert by the European Union Youth Orchestra has an enticing range of arias and duets from two  rare Verdi operas. Luisa Miller  and I masnadieri have not been performed in Scotland since the visit of Covent Garden to the Festival twenty years or so ago.  The soprano Diana Damrau is now a major star performing regularly at the Met. Baritone Nicolas Testé is also a noted performer unknown here. The conductor, Gianandrea Noseda, led the enjoyable William Tell last year.

The main item on the programme, by the way, seems on the face of it a rather incongruous match - Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Note the 7.30 start time, by the way!