Scottish Opera's 2006-7 sell out production
*****
****
This is quite simply the best updating of an opera I have ever seen...Side splittingly funny
one to convert even the most ardent anti opera cynic to the art form.
Scottish Opera has an absolute winner on it's hands, a knockout production.......
....a chortling staging, upbeat, trendy...should have you falling about with laughter.
Scottish Opera's new small scale production by Lee Blakeley reveals the skull beneath the skin, with a setting that is not just contemporary but very close to home the dubiously affluent pleasure seeking clubbing class of any major UK city today.
...goes for the jugular with no concessions to sentiment or nostalgia...the energy, brio, and sheer fecundity of comic invention on display make for a thumping good night out.