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Ken Walton

Music Critic at The Scotsman

Classical Music Critic of The Scotsman. Co-founder of Classical music website https://t.co/p8gRwsHc9T (@VoxCarnyx)

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  • Tectonics: BBC SSO 1, Glasgow review: 'food for thought'

    1 week ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    Tectonics: BBC SSO, City Halls, Glasgow ★★★★This year’s Tectonics Festival, running over Saturday and Sunday, took as its key theme “the profound act of listening”. You could argue that goes without saying for any music festival, but when it comes to Tectonics, and the explorative cutting-edge repertoire favoured by curator Ilan Volkov, the challenge can be as provocative as it is revealing.

  • The Great Wave: Scottish Opera's Hokusai-inspired production to 'straddle fact and fantasy'

    1 week ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    The headline news for Scottish Opera earlier this month, while revealing its upcoming 2025-26 programme, is that the new season also marks music director Stuart Stratford’s tenth year in the company’s artistic hot seat. Given how critical the past decade has been for Scottish Opera - marking its reinvention following a funding crisis that seriously threatened its credibility and very existence - Stratford’s success in the role is equally a measure of that comeback.

  • Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow, Glasgow review: 'a dizzying theatrical tsunami'

    1 week ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow, Theatre Royal, Glasgow ★★★★To appreciate this brazen new Scottish Opera production, nay re-envisioning, of Franz Lehár’s 1905 operetta The Merry Widow, there’s absolutely no place for preconceptions.

  • Scottish Opera's New York Mafia take on The Merry Widow

    3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ken Walton

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  • Scottish Opera's New York Mafia take on The Merry Widow

    3 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    Scottish Opera’s new co-production of The Merry Widow is set in a New York Mafia family, but all the core elements remain, director John Savournin tells Ken Walton There are certain operas you mess with at your peril. They tend to be the untouchable old favourites, and few come more sacred than those breezy 19th/early 20th century operettas adored for their fun, frivolity, flouncy ballroom dresses and fetching ditties.

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5 May 25

RT @scotsman_arts: The Great Wave: Scottish Opera's Hokusai-inspired production to 'straddle fact and fantasy' As @ScottishOpera launches…

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5 May 25

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2 May 25

RT @scotsman_arts: Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow, Glasgow review: 'a dizzying theatrical tsunami' https://t.co/kqlzo12mEB