Trial by Jury/A Matter of Misconduct! review – gags and Spads in Scottish Opera’s sparkling double bill

Theatre Royal, GlasgowGilbert and Sullivan’s 150-year-old comic opera gets a lively update, while there is plenty of fun to be had at the expense of politicians in Toby Hessian’s pacy new operettaTen years after conductor Stuart Stratford left Opera Holland Park to begin a stabilising and fruitful relationship as Scottish Opera’s music director, the traffic this summer is in the other direction in a trio of co-productions, originating in Scotland, with D’Oyly Carte Opera a third partner.As John Savournin’s broad and brassy The Merry Widow tours across Scotland before its London transfer, this new double bill adds a 150th anniversary revival of Gilbert and Sullivan’s first success and a contemporary political satire to a colourful package. Continue reading...

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