The BBC Symphony Orchestra provided the pit band for the European premiere of Brett Dean's opera Bliss at the Edinburgh International Festival . Sub-principal viola Phil Hall was doing his bit for the music and the offal industry ...
Every so often the BBC Symphony Orchestra is allowed out of the Proms lest we forget that there are other summer festivals happening elsewhere on the planet. In the past we have visited Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin and Edinburgh - the latter is where we find ourselves this week. Usually it is just a 'hit and run' repeat Prom concert, then back to the Albert Hall before anyone knows we've escaped, but this time we have taken up residence for almost a week in Auld Reekie in order to give two performances of Australian composer Brett Dean 's new Kafka-esque opera, Bliss .
We are billeted out by Arthur's Seat, the craggy 350 million-year-old volcano which, if climbed, affords some of the best views of the city and across the silvery Firth o...
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