From the Stalls: Handel's "Orlando" at the Scottish Opera, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, by Caroline Bottger

Tim Mead as Orlando and Sally Silver as Angelica in Handel's Orlando at the Scottish Opera. Photo Richard Campbell.

Orlando
Music and libretto by Georg Friedrich Handel
Scottish Opera Company
Edinburgh Festival Theatre
Thursday 5th March

Conductor: Paul Goodwin
Stage Director: Harry Fehr
Set and Costume Designer: Yannis Thavoris
Lighting Designer: Anna Watson

Orlando - Tim Mead
Angelica - Sally Silver
Medoro - Andrew Radley
Dorinda - Claire Booth
Zoroastro - Andreas Wolf

The terrain of the Scottish Opera company is very broad and rich, and as a result, it yields some strange, glorious fruit. Georg Friedrich Haendel’s baroque opera Orlando, replete with the classic themes of love, madness and redemption, hit the stages of Glasgow and Edinburgh this February and of course, all the audience could do was sit in their seats in awe. Scottish Opera gave this 1733 baroque masterpiece a complete face lift to lighten the drab northern winter, and has garnered nothing but four-star reviews for its efforts.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller