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Wallace
An upside-down stag hangs over the stage as the haze rises.

Shostakovich Five
On Friday night at the Usher Hall, the RSNO moved through a programme of pressure and release.

Bach St Matthew Passion
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s St Matthew Passion turned the Usher Hall into a theatre of voices on Thursday night.

Eurydice
A sheet of plastic stretches across a metal frame, blue light glowing behind it, slicing in two the space of the stage.

Balisong
One chair has fallen over, three are stacked, and there is a fourth person who will never sit in any of them.

Lullaby
Lullaby dances its way through a hospital waiting room turned uncanny fever dream.

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra brought Berlioz with little restraint to the Usher Hall on Thursday evening in a theatrical opening to their 26/27 season.

Mahler Six
On Friday night, the RSNO began its season by receiving the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Ensemble Award, before Thomas Søndergård led Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto, with…

Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful is a one-man race towards a war we already know is coming.

SIX
Six sets out to rescue Henry VIII’s wives from the story that reduced them to six marriages, six scandals and a memorable rhyme.

The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs arrives on the 2026 stage carrying the weighty visual memory of the 1991 thriller alongside it.

The Tailor of Inverness
The Tailor of Inverness is a one-man epic about a son trying to recover his father from memory.
