THROUGHOUT the Covid-19 pandemic stage artists across Scotland have been finding innovative ways to engage with their audiences, despite the closure of the theatres. No company has been more committed to this noble project than Scottish Opera. Our national opera company’s pandemic offerings have included acclaimed films of Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Indeed, during a slight loosening in coronavirus restrictions, they even presented a brilliant, physically distanced live production of Puccini’s La bohème, which was performed in the car park of the company’s Glasgow studios. Now, as we look forward to a progressively more vaccinated, increasingly “normal” future, the company has announced an exciting programme of filmed and live shows to take us from spring and into summer. There will be two films, Live In South Lanarkshire (which premieres on April 23) and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (which will start streaming
South Lanarkshire Council quash concerns over future of Rutherglen Town Hall as figures show it s costing thousands
A Freedom of Information request discovered that the Main Street venue, which usually hosts concerts, theatre shows, weddings and local groups, has instead cost South Lanarkshire Council a whopping £387,000 so far in the current financial year.
Rutherglen Town Hall
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