The Marriage of Figaro - review

Theatre Royal, GlasgowThose three stars are a midway compromise: Scottish Opera's new Figaro is great on stage, shoddy in the pit. Maybe the dichotomy's apt for an opera about the foibles of above/below stairs relations – certainly conductor Francesco Corti seemed happy for singers and orchestra to have little to do with each other. But it's a shame. Sir Thomas Allen, one of Britain's great baritones and here back in the director's chair following his Barber of Seville for Scottish Opera in 20...

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