| 17 August 2011
Mark Fisher takes a look at the opera programme at this year's International Festival
DAS PARADIES UND DIE PERI
Usher Hall
12 August, 7.30pm
To open the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is teaming up with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus to tackle Schumann’s take on Persian mythology.
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
Festival Theatre
1-3 August, 6pm
This sumptuous opera by Richard Strauss takes us into a fantasy world of spirits at large in the human world. Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Opera.
THE REVENGE OF PRINCE ZI DAN
Festival Theatre
19-20 August, 8pm;
21 August, 3pm
With its Oriental theme, the Edinburgh International Festival has naturally included Chinese opera in its programme. This one from the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe is a reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
ORLANDO PALADINO
Usher Hall
25 August, 7pm
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra gives a concert performance of Haydn’s exotic opera about love, jealousy and magic.
THAIS
Usher Hall
18 August, 7pm
A concert performance of Massenet’s study of romantic and religious love in which a 4th-century Egyptian monk rescues a courtesan.
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