The Scottish Ensemble is taking the opportunity to showcase many of its achievements over its 50-year history online, due to the current lockdown.
A series of drive-in concerts, theatre performances, comedy shows and opera, featuring many household names, is set to take place near urban centres across the UK, including Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra online ‘RSNO Friday Night Club’ has its final concert on Friday 3rd July – part of RSNO’s continuing programme of online engagement.
A season of fifty short digital artworks from Scotland’s National Theatre features several of Scotland’s best-known actors working from isolation on new scripts, in support of a hardship fund for the many in the performing arts affected adversely by the Covid crisis.
Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s oldest continually-running film festival and this year moves online with #EdFilmFestAtHome, showing the best upcoming cinema including fascinating previews and big names in discussion.
Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen, combining choreography and moving image, presents an online programme showcasing work connecting local, national and international artists to audiences.
First performed at the 2019 Glasgow Cathedral Festival (GCF), Dhatu by Edwin Hillier has been announced as the winner of the Electroacoustic / Sound Artwork category in the fourth annual Scottish Awards for New Music.
St Margaret’s centre in Braemar is marking Earth Day with a video event on April 22nd launching a collaborative work incorporating new music, science, animation and images telling the story of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Following the suspension of its concert programme, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has introduced a number of ways you can watch some of Scotland’s most talented musicians online.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has launched never-before-seen concert footage as part of their new online ‘RSNO Friday Night Club’, enabling people to enjoy music while staying at home.
Note: cancelled due to public health situation. James MacMillan’s landmark setting of the dying words of Jesus Christ, Seven Last Words from the Cross will be performed by the Scottish Ensemble and Dunedin Consort in the former’s 50th anniversary year, across Scotland and in London.
Note: cancelled due to public health situation. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs ‘one of the most beautiful, most moving and in its own way most profoundly spiritual choral works of the 19th century’, by Johannes Brahms, alongside avant-garde master Luigi Nono’s visionary orchestral-electronic ‘Per Bastiana Tai-Yang Cheng’.
Note: check performers’ websites for information re. public health situation. Marking the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, here are some highlights of forthcoming performances in May and June.
Joan Clevillé’s re-imagination of Sophocles’ classic story for a contemporary world, told through the body and the voice of a single performer.
John Adams’ acclaimed take on President Nixon’s memorable 1972 visit to Maoist China returns to Scotland after 42 years.
Note: many Arts Live events have been cancelled due to the public health emergency. Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival has announced the launch of its fourth annual Arts Live programme to tour the region.
Tommy Smith’s collaboration with the late Makar Edwin Morgan is revived to mark the poet’s centenary, in an ambitious and expansive work charting the Earth’s voyage, in a synthesis of music, sound, poetry and theatre.
Celtic Connections 2020 Highlights
Scottish Opera’s production of composer John Adams’ acclaimed take on President Nixon’s memorable 1972 visit to Maoist China will show on selected days in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Sunderland-based art-rockers focus their eager energies on a new set of erudite and historically-themed songs, in the vast cathedral-like setting of Kelvingrove’s centre hall.
One of England’s most idiosyncratic songwriters brings his surreal, angular takes on life to Glasgow.
A visually spectacular retelling of this well-known fairytale.
An annual celebration of innovative visual theatre, puppetry and animated film, Manipulate 2020 features over 40 leading international and Scottish-based theatre artists and animators.
Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival is expecting 2,100 musicians from around the world to gather in venues around the city for 300 events, spanning 18 days, in a celebration of Celtic music and its global connections.
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