Scotsman critic David Kettle picks his opera highlights from this year’s EIF programme The Marriage of Figaro Purists beware.

will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...

This is where the terminology can become confusing. Stravinsky called his Oedipus Rex an 'opera-oratorio', intending it to be performed on a stage, but statically. Also, some commentators use ...