An opera about a girl who turns into a tree does not, on the face of it, sound especially promising. But that’s the heroine’s fate in Richard Strauss’s Daphne, written in 1937, and that final scene is ...
Skilfully cast and sung – tenor Shengzhi Ren a particular stand out – and beautifully played, this was the Scottish premiere of Strauss’s late one-act opera Scottish Opera’s relationship with the ...
Independent Opera Company will continue its 2024-2025 season with "Daphne," a rarely- performed opera by German composer Richard Strauss. IOC's presentation of "Daphne" will be the Los Angeles ...
In this thrilling new production of Richard Strauss’s 1938 opera Daphne, Hye-Youn Lee was utterly magnificent in the title role with the Scottish Opera Orchestra also playing a blinder, writes Ken ...
From photos taken at earlier performances in Glasgow and the Lammermuir Festival back in September, the worry was that director Emma Jenkins’ thoughts would tend too much to the troubled 1930s in ...