www.onfife.com Box Office 01383 602302 TUES 29 OCTOBER I 7.30pm I £14 I Under 26s £5 I Sung in English All tickets £12 if booked by 1 October I Pre-theatre meals £10
Scottish Opera present a new production of Handel’s
Rodelinda
THE BALL
Against a backdrop of faded Baroque grandeur, a cast of very contemporary characters tell a compelling tale of tyranny, love and the corrupting nature of power. Bertarido, King of Lombardy, has been defeated in battle and his enemy Grimoaldo has seized his throne. Bertarido’s queen, Rodelinda, mourns bitterly, little knowing that her husband is feigning death in order to exact revenge. Alone in a world of ruthless Machiavellian intrigue, she agrees to marry Grimoaldo. Distraught, Bertarido dismisses her as faithless, but allegiances change in the flick of a knife, and nothing is ever quite what it seems. Three instrumentalists accompany – on harpsichord, violin and cello – giving a strong flavour of the orchestra that Handel originally wrote for. The sensuous score is full of fragility, beauty and darkness, contrasting moments of frantic energy with those of exquisite stillness, reflecting the human passions at its core. Supported by The Alexander Gibson Circle and Eda, Lady Jardine Charitable Trust
WED 30 OCTOBER I 7.30pm I £12, conc. £10 All tickets £10 if booked by 2 October THE BALL
James Yorkston, Jon Thorne, Suhail Yusuf Khan with support from Lisa O’Neill “Think Fife Vs Manchester Vs Calcutta and you may be somewhere close.” Bob Agnews, Fence Records. In 2012, Dewar's hosted an experiment. Musicians from India and the UK were placed in a makeshift recording studio in Edinburgh, for a week, asked to come up with an album of original songs. King Creosote, Suhail Yusuf Khan, The Pictish Trail, Slow Club, Found, James Yorkston, Raghu Dixit and others came and went, collaborating and creating with those that they met. The results were rather special. In the spirit of that album, three of those acts are on tour together for the first time, playing as a trio and performing a semi-improvised mix of traditional music from India and the UK/Ireland, alongside their own compositions. THURS 31 OCTOBER I 8pm I £13.50, conc. £10
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